I found my self in the same boat back in college. I had discovered the workstations were caching passwords when i was looking for a way to elevate my local user privileges to use my "new" 64mb pen drive:-) So when i alerted the IT staff of the cached passwords the ax came down on me fast and hard. I must say i was and still am surprised at how bad that pissed them off. However i did escape w/ a slap on the wrist thanks to some great teachers i had as a character reference. But i learned my lesson, if i see something that isn't right security wise i don't say anything and make sure my information isn't comprimized.
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I found my self in the same boat back in college. I had discovered the workstations were caching passwords when i was looking for a way to elevate my local user privileges to use my "new" 64mb pen drive:-) So when i alerted the IT staff of the cached passwords the ax came down on me fast and hard. I must say i was and still am surprised at how bad that pissed them off. However i did escape w/ a slap on the wrist thanks to some great teachers i had as a character reference. But i learned my lesson, if i see something that isn't right security wise i don't say anything and make sure my information isn't comprimized.