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		chopdcheez212 on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about developme... I miss when default username/password combos like admin/admin and root/“” would let you log in to a solid 5% of internet and Telenet (RIP) connected hosts.

gHosts on June 12, 2019 [–]

And most .rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv just had a single lonely '+' in them and nothing went wrong...

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