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duckWit
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At my first job, I got tired of having to type a user name and password every time I debugged the web application. Thinking I was clever, I put in a hack so that if you launched the application with the query string "?user=Administrator" it would log you in as the administrator. So much typing saved!

A couple days after the next release, I realized it shipped like that. In absolute horror, I walked into my boss' office, closed the door, and told him the tale of my mistake.

He just looked back at me, and after a moment or two said, "Loose lips sink ships."

And that was it.

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  • 8
    For some reason I imagined Winston Churchill's squinting face when you wrote about your bosses reply
  • 13
    Wait, still in prod? Why couldn’t you fix it on the next release?
  • 9
    @AmyShackles release cycles at that place were very infrequent, and shortly after that the company stopped support for that product altogether. People still using it never got an update.
  • 6
    @Haxk20 haha. Think of the ships!
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