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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:29AM
I don't think it really matters that the password is dumb. Did you see the username?
In any case, I don't think we should come down hard on these people. From their point of view, if you're allowed to see that monitor, you're allowed to log in (and, since these are trains, it's probably important to log in reasonably fast in some instances, and people might move around a lot in those buildings, I don't know), so they did nothing wrong.
The fault lies with the idiot who let the cameras film, and did not go through the result frame by frame before giving their ok for the result to be made public.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday May 05 2015, @09:00AM
The fault lies with the idiot who let the cameras film, and did not go through the result frame by frame before giving their ok
The media don't let you go through the result frame by frame, same as they don't let you erase anything you said to them. Once it is in the can it is all grist to their mill.
The fault lies withthe idiot who did not go through the office first to remove anything like that.