What secret do you know that could ruin someone else's life?

Ragdoll X@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 124 points –

Probably a boring answer but I know my grandmother's credit card information. I live with and help take care of her, so she doesn't mind sharing it with me. Not like I'm planning to do anything nefarious, but I guess technically it could ruin her financially.

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Lawyers, accountants, and software engineers accumulate these things like you wouldn't believe. We can't tell you about current secrets, only stale ones.

I once knew that the top level password used at a corporation valued at 6 billion dollars was 'password123'. They had no backups, no VPN, and that password was used at all the high-value access points. It's since been fixed, but it was that for years.

It's since been fixed, but it was that for years.

I like that this implies you regularly checked

Regularly had to use it to do work I was contracted to do.

Company went public one day, they restructured massively to become more efficient. I imagine that kind of stuff stopped then, but don't really know.

"What the CEO wants, the CEO gets" - head of IT doing nothing for 300k/yr

I'm surprised the password wasn't 1-2-3-4-5, like on their luggage.

What kind of idiot uses that on their luggage?

Damn, I've got to go change the combination on my luggage!