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November

IF TECH IS YOUR THING, CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING TECHIE FACT!

Most, if not all, online accounts require a password. Some demand special characters, while others generate complex codes that no one could guess.

If you were in charge of nuclear missiles, you’d put some serious thought into your password, right? Well, it turns out that the US army used the password 00000000 to protect its nuclear missiles during the Cold War (the hostility without actual war between the Soviet Union and the United States 1947 to 1991).

Not only that, it didn’t change it for 20 years!

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