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Dumbest security bug you've seen?
Week 234 Group Rant
PonySlaystation
117d

There was a time in Windows 95, where during login, you could just press cancel and you were logged in without the need of a password.

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  • 14
    117d
    It's not a bug, it's a feature!!
  • 27
    117d
    "Windows 95" would have been more than enough for the weekly rant
  • 10
    117d
    @netikras "Windows" would have been enough as well.
  • 9
    117d
    That login screen was the network login, not the local login. At the time, windows did not have any local security, and everything you ran was with full access
  • 3
    117d
    @sudo-compile that's why edited the comment with 'more than' :)
  • 2
    115d
    Yep 98 could be circumvented just as easily.
  • 2
    113d
    Those were the days when Windows were an app running on DOS. Remember highmem.sys? And 32MB of RAM was enormous.
  • 1
    113d
    @AtuM yep we used to be high on mem now it's just overdosed.
  • 0
    110d
    Nice
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