I'm tasked with hacking a million dollar production machine and all the PLCs have the same password for the root user, which also happens to be the name of the company producing this shit....

Your task seems easy. Test rm -rf / vector? =D

That's a depressing thing to see

It's your duty to call them out in that shit. It could come back to haunt you if you say nothing and something should just happen to coincide while you've got access to the system.

Plus you can rag on their current sysadmin with impunity as you likely won't have to put up with them for long. Win/win!

@xios I have access to do that and I'm not supposed to...

@Folkmann of course no. Fix it, don't kill it.