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 Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:32PM
While those are, of course, important measures, they give far from the complete pictures. There are other important figures, such as reliability, speed of delivery, network coverage, flexibility, cost.