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For what it is worth, this was in a small town in Australia back in the early 80's... Simply a case of lazy admins (see my comment reply above). Probably even

For what it is worth, this was in a small town in Australia back in the early 80's... Simply a case of lazy admins (see my comment reply above). Probably even only down to one guy's slack work ethic. I think the entire university's IT department at the time consisted of 4 guys running around trying to keep the mainframe running. There probably weren't any solid policies on password security.

stcredzero 9y ago
Back in high school (private boarding school) it was one of the math teachers who was running the mainframe. (And teaching the programming class.) Security consisted of students trying to break into each other's accounts and leaving Easter Eggs in each other's BASIC games.