The beloved sysadmin for my school network did the same recently. She set all student and teacher network and email logins to "password." The scary part of this is our program used for grading stores a teacher's login and password in a simple text file. Once a user was to get into the grading system, they can view all personal information of any student attending the school, including full name, address, home phone, social security number, and more. I may just bring this up to the superintendant, citing the multitude of students that could have, or may have, been exposed.
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The beloved sysadmin for my school network did the same recently. She set all student and teacher network and email logins to "password." The scary part of this is our program used for grading stores a teacher's login and password in a simple text file. Once a user was to get into the grading system, they can view all personal information of any student attending the school, including full name, address, home phone, social security number, and more. I may just bring this up to the superintendant, citing the multitude of students that could have, or may have, been exposed.