Paul Graham on Twitter: "Next time you neglect to change the default password for something, remember that it was "to minimize delay."… "

Country	Code	For customers of
United States	40404	(any)
Canada	21212	(any)
United Kingdom	86444	Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
Brazil	40404	Nextel, TIM
Haiti	40404	Digicel, Voila
Ireland	51210	Vodafone, O2
India	53000	Bharti Airtel, Videocon, Reliance
Indonesia	89887	AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata
Italy	4880804	Wind
3424486444	Vodafone
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1. viral‏ @_viralshah 4 Jul 2019
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  Hahaha
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1. Sean Coleman‏ @seancoleman86 4 Jul 2019
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  I’m choosing to believe that that the real story is that the ICBMs came with default launch codes printed on them, just like a wireless router, and no one’s niece or nephew had the security clearance to come in and set up new, secure launch codes.
  
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1. Philip Tellis‏ @bluesmoon 4 Jul 2019
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  The default was 123456789. They changed it to 000000000.
  
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1. Joe Jenkins‏ @RabbitHoleJoe 4 Jul 2019
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  Seems appropriate if you plan to zero out the human race.
  
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1. Dan Talmon‏ @dan_talmon 4 Jul 2019
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  I know that example is for educational purposes but launch codes had a completely different context than passwords They were another small step in a very long chain of execution of launching ICB's
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1. I convert light into electrical power‏ @SeeMarek 4 Jul 2019
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  It's a question of time!
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