This same thing happened to Ultima Online. When it first came out in 1996, it was a magnet drawing everyone interested in MMORPG. But after 5 years, the game starts to decline. Origin/EA stars adding in expansion modules until it no longer looked like the original game. Please move on as time goes by...

The avionics business is the same way. A navigational radio or altimeter LRU, developed and certified with tools that run on Windows 98/95, must maintain the machines and various tools is was developed on until the product is 'sun setted' (which is at leased 20 years). One company maintains a VAX 11/780 due to the nature of the product still being in the field.

I believe "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon" (1980) explored a situation where a space craft was caught in the event horizon of a black hole.

For embedded development work, it's a requirement that the dev pubs their build onto the target hardware. We just couldn't do our work without it. But once the developed software has been tested on a test system, it should be left to QA/V&V to make installations...

Just tell them when word of their antics gets out, their business reputation will be ruined. Who would be able to trust a business with their data who blindly resets your password without a valid confirmation? A bad reputation has killed more businesses...

The Book of Swords Series is collectively a science fiction/fantasy novel series written by Fred Saberhagen. It's well worth the read of these smaller (page size) novels.