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Nick and Margaret: The Trouble with Our Trains is a BBC Two show featuring Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, who explore "the sorry state of the British rail network."
The dynamic duo's travels took them to the Wessex Integrated Control Centre, located above the platform entrances at London Waterloo railway station, manned 24 hours a day by teams of controllers from both South West Trains and Network Rail.
[The] documentary revealed more than it planned this week, exposing the passwords used at a rail control centre.
The article features a frame of the video which shows the complex login credentials taped to an LCD panel of a Windows XP terminal.
One might wonder if overstrict password policy brought this about, except obviously a strict password policy would not allow the password that is stickied to the monitor..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:54AM
It could be the third workstation. First row, far left is password1, next to it has password2, next to that is password3, etc. The publicly accessible computers at my municipal library are set up like that. Thankfully, they are somewhat protected from idiots as when your time expires or runs out, they "reboot" automatically. As an aside, one of my favorite moments was when someone questioned whether they booted "too fast" and that they wasted "his" money; of course, they just restored from a snapshot, but try explaining that one to someone like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:51AM
I'm sure when he complained that the computers reboot "to fast", he didn't mean the actual boot time, but the time between restarts.