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A lovely anecdote: When I worked for Bellsouth.net, the ISP, our router credentials started with a shared admin/(password) pair. The change happened, according to speculation, because of a breach that couldn't be tracked back to a specific user.

If a company's smart, it'll only take one such complication to change that behavior. That behavior barely made sense in 1999 though and any company using shared super-user privileges in 2013 is just asking for a world of hurt...

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