I discovered that every employee has the same exact password at my job.

Here's what happened.

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I just want to state that this IT issue is blowing some people's minds.

The security flaw that this presented was nothing short of incredible.

And the fact that we never

had a major security breach is astounding. It truly is. The flaw, you may ask, everyone in the

entire company had the same password. Yes, folks, you heard that right. Every single password to

every single employee login was the same password. It was like

this before I joined the company, and for quite a few years after. Until, well, enjoy the story.

Now, what about the username? That must have been the trick, right? Oh yeah, that was a trick.

The username was the employee email address.

I did point out this flaw to my management, and their response was,

that's not our area to be concerned about.

So, whatever, it paid well, I'll do my job.

And then one day, we had a Windows update which caused a piece of the software I used at work

to break.

I submitted a help ticket, and after escalating this issue, I got to the CTO.

It wasn't a huge company.

The CTO said,

I don't want to spend time fixing this, use this workaround.

To which I pointed out, the workaround slows things down, makes my job harder and this

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