There's a big list of all known security vulnerabilities for computers.

And you want to know what the oldest known computer vulnerability is?

The oldest I could find is weak default passwords.

This has been a known vulnerability since 1969.

Specifically, computers sometimes have the username admin with the password also admin.

And the computer doesn't ask you to change it when you buy it.

So it can stay that way for a long time, years.

And many computers after that also use admin admin as the default username and password.

And over the years, many hackers have been able to get into many systems that they didn't

own using this basic username password.

So now it's been 40 years since we became aware of this security weakness.

Surely by now, this weakness has been resolved, right?

And there aren't any computers in the world that have this username and password anymore,

right?

Right?

I sure hope so.

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