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, @08:44AM
The fact that pickpockets can survive on their "profession" doesn't tell me that on average we are very good in securing those valuable pieces of paper.
Indeed, I know of people who still think the back pocket of their trousers is a safe place to store the wallet.