User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it
16-10-2026 09:28 via theregister.com

User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it

Change is constant, but The Register likes to keep some things the same – such as using Friday mornings to bring you a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Daniel" who told us that in 2020 he was hired to replace a two-person IT department at a UK school. "The IT manager had left amid some 'accounting irregularities,' mainly involving high-end gaming PCs being purchased using school fund
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