Comment by kawsper

When I was about 12 I was working on a PHP3 application, I had some issues with a MySQL query, and I pasted my code to pastebin (or whatever we used back then) and shared the link on IRC, the code included my database credentials.

Back then our ISP gave every computer a public IP.

The next thing that happened was that someone changed my MySQL password, and me being 12, I didn’t know how to change it back.

They made me beg for the password, to much amusement to the whole channel, and then they helped me secure it and taught me how to reset the password.

NAT would have saved me, but I wouldn’t have received a free, though a bit embarrassing, security lesson.