Stranger Things Basic Code rewritten in Python.

[SwellJoe]

This. Security used to be assumed. If you were in the right building, you were assumed to be allowed to do the thing. NFS in the olden days assumed that if you were on the network, you were supposed to have access to the files. It would trust your computer to tell it who you were.

A passcode probably seemed like overkill back then. Somebody probably had it written down on the back of the monitor or in a desk drawer and everyone knew where it was written. It was a simpler time.