In the 1970's Stanford had IBM 2741 hardcopy terminals spread around campus networked to an IBM 360/67. Account passwords were three characters. During logon, the password prompt would overprint a three-position blob of about nine random uppercase characters, so the subsequently-typed password would supposedly be masked by the blob. However, everyone typed their passwords in lowercase, which were trivial to discern against the uppercase background blob. That meant you could usually walk up to any terminal, peruse the hardcopy typically left behind by the previous user, and easily logon with their account and password.

在一所不知名的大学，他们所有的动作查询都是通过URL传递的，而不是通过表单发布的。

这个东西一直在工作，直到谷歌Bot出现，运行了他们所有的url并删除了他们的数据库。

几年前，一位朋友给了我一把他发现的旧斧头，希望我告诉他这是一件古老的人工制品。所以，我在谷歌上搜索了一些可能有助于识别的网站，得到了一个链接到英国中部某处的博物馆网站。

只不过它把我放到的那个页面给了我整个网站的完全管理员权限。作为一个负责任的人，我更改了账户所有者的名字，这样他们就知道我不是在胡说八道，并给他们发了一封电子邮件，建议他们在更恶毒的人发现之前，把让我进入的漏洞堵上。

不用说，我收到了网站所有者的一封非常感谢的电子邮件，开发人员向他保证，错误已经被发现并修复了。尽管你不得不怀疑一个如此粗心大意的人的能力。

社会工程:

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

从bash.org

当关键IT员工离开公司时，不更改管理密码。

在没有加密的数据库中存储信用卡信息(整个信息:号码+有效期+密码)。此外，该数据库被用作一种CRM，因此许多销售人员可以使用不安全的密码访问它。(自从我3年前离开公司后，他们就没换过名字。)