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TipVFL | 7 years ago

I had a similar level of access to my school's network when I was 12. It was really easy, just watch the teacher slowly peck-type her password. It was "teach". That gave me access to everything for her class.

Later on she had to log in to the admin account, and that password was "burger". It turned out to be the password for every admin account in every school in my district. I'm guessing they were all set up by the same guy, with a note saying, "make sure to change the password!"

I had access to EVERYTHING. But, I was a pretty good kid, so I just poked around enough to really verify that I could do anything and then I logged out and never logged back in. I was terrified that I was going to get in huge trouble just for accessing things I shouldn't have.

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Rjevski|7 years ago

> It was really easy, just watch the teacher slowly peck-type her password. It was "teach".

Exact same story on my side, and the password wasn't much better either. The worst is that she hinted at what the password could be (I assumed it was a joke to calm down curious kids) but it was totally right when I managed to actually see that password for myself.

xfitm3|7 years ago

The computer password in my school was "secret". We'd always ask the teacher for the password and we were told "its a secret".