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I don't think the school having a dumb password is tangential at all. Your efforts are undermined by being given a lame password you can't change (if it couldn'
by theonemind 12y ago
I don't think the school having a dumb password is tangential at all. Your efforts are undermined by being given a lame password you can't change (if it couldn't be changed.) This would be like having your bank make your banking account password "password123" and making it immutable, and holding you potentially liable for unauthorized access. Sure, whoever types your login and "password123" is the person actually committing a crime, but I'll be damned if it's not the bank's fault.
Alternatively, imagine an unlocked weapons locker at school. A weak password is close to being "unlocked." Let's say it was protected by a padlock with combination "1-2-3-4", then a student gets in and gets a weapon. Of course the student is at fault, and of course the school's actions were bordering on criminally negligent and something bad was bound to happen.
- ux-app 12y agoIt's tangential because it in no way excuses the student from unauthorized access. It doesn't mean the school didn't have poor password policies. It just means that this is a wholly other debate.