For your entertainment, and a PSA

Quoted from a status update I was given at work today. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.

" . . . so here . . . I sit with [Tim] from [the company that produces our key-card security access software] on the phone, biting nails and hoping they have figured out how we can change the [administrator] password for the server and the controllers. Not sensing a lot of confidence but [Tim] insists (several if not too many times) that no one has ever asked to do this before . . . "

And, just as a PSA, lots of software you never think about has an administrator password that comes pre-set to a default. Sometimes, the default is blank. You should, generally, change this to avoid being cracked. The administration interface for your standard DSL or cable modem, for example, or j-random wireless router that you use at home . . .