"You are beautiful and wonderful - keep going! (unlike this systems security)"

0: https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml

"This is Army Commander Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. We have chosen to take command of the country to protect you against serious crimes against the people that we have become aware of. Remain calm and continue with your daily duties."

(Except in Brazilian Portuguese.)

That sounds like the computer had a bad solution to “find a Brandt.”

The comment with the request to find this reference had me thinking it would be a single phone number misconfigured to call a large population.

> historically assumed a trusted small set of participants

Kind of interesting to think about in the case of paper mail, maybe "historically [...] small" was a village, and the practices of a village where people left each other notes under the door lead to being able to send SMTP messages with an arbitrary "From". Wonder how long it took for pen signatures and institutional stamps to be developed.

Now that I think about it, if I received a letter from my bank, I can't be 100% sure from the paper alone that some random guy didn't make it and leave it in my mail box. There's no established security stamp.

It's kind of like Australia or the UK saying kids are "hacking" their PCs to use VPNS. There can be a very legitimate use of tools, but the portrayal of users bypassing blocks could just as easily be painted in a negative light.

One time someone made a joke or observation, 20 years or so ago, that their Myspace page was "hacked" because someone "posted on their wall". It's obviously not that misused, but just labeled that way when misinformed.