Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.

Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.

Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?

Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn’t as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.

I should also say that it was only available internally. If I were to log in from a high school or library, I couldn’t use it. You had to be in the Facebook office, using the Facebook ISP.

http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/

В двух словах - на Фейсбуке долгое время был универсальный пароль к любому аккаунту "Чак Норрис"

*правда использовать его можн было только из офиса Фейсбука, но пару сотрудников таки уволили за abuse

Кто в ладу с английским - комментарии на slashdot очень радуют

... Paris Hilton. So anyone can get in.

The real WTF is that "Chuck Norris" works as a password into anything: Facebook, your online bank account, your sister's pants...

In Soviet Russia, passwords ask for Chuck Norris.

...can actually type ******** into any system and login successfully.

At least the master password wasn't something weak like "Rick Moranis." By using Chuck Norris, you can tell Facebook was taking security seriously.