[sirnonw]

Funny how there is a post-it with a password glued to the screen of the computer in the lede image, now in plain sight for thousands of readers.

[ashton314]

Looks like there's a year at the end; might be to facilitate suckurity requirements such as yearly password rotation.

[ronsor]

Some places do 3 months! It's amazing

[idiotsecant]

You'd be surprised (or probably not) how much incredibly critical infrastructure has one ancient lynchpin PC doing some weird essential thing with a post-it note password like NameOfCompanyYear! where it's clear based on the year that the password hasn't been reset in a quarter century

[IncRnd]

I think this is Ccjaas2004. I'm not 100% sure on the letters, but the year is easy to see. Hopefully, they've changed their password sometime in the past 21 years.

[Retr0id]

It's ok, comes back clean on https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords, probably a few more years of life left in it!

[netsharc]

The image URL contains a parameter for size in pixel, and it's modifiable...

[jchw]

That's true. Now it is most likely Ccjaas2025.

[pmontra]

That's CCJ who married AAS in 2004. The password is still the same. But what's the username and what's the service?

[downrightmike]

My guess: Ccjacs 2004

Odds are it hasn't been updated for 20+ years

[conorcleary]

Sorta how those Fox Raw livestreams on YouTube Live consistently show the inner workings of room-to-room shuffles and background whispers INSIDE the White House for the entire online world to dissect; it's definitely a security flaw but maybe not considered so by either Fox or the admin.

[alephnerd]

@Dang can you please delete this comment

OP might not be wrong, but let's at least follow SOP for disclosing security failures (30 days pre-disclosure)

[tomhow]

We don't delete things unless the poster asks us to, and really I doubt this comment is creating any more risk than the picture itself on the WSJ.