• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    I remember in primary school, my school district wrote the passwords on index cards and passed them out to kids whenever we need it for online assignments / quiz / (US) State Standarized Exams, and I was just like… um… isn’t that very insecure? (Also I already memorized the password)

    Some classmate peeked at my card and I was like: “bruh”…

    I told the teacher about it and she just said don’t worry.

    And you can’t even change the password, not until middle school at least. Bruh, I always was afraid some dipshit is gonna log in as me and troll me

    Who the fuck runs the IT? I could probably do a better job.

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      4 hours ago

      Practical obscurity is behind a LOT of today’s security sadly.

      I have access to the exam system our law school uses as I co-administer it, there’s definitely a way to send people a raw text version of their password in emails. My boss also asks professors to write down their passwords on sticky notes so he can work on their PCs, this week I heard him give his SSO-connected admin account password to a faculty member over the phone, with the strict instructions she not use it for anything else. Smh. He’s a domain admin. Mmmkay.