PS: I nearly got thrown out for running John The Ripper on everyone's password hashes, which were conveniently served up over NIS. I did inform a prof that his password was super, super insecure because I mailed it to him. :)) Then, I nearly got thrown out again for mirroring some Oracle DBMS docs because they were stupidly IP restricted, and I didn't want physically go to CSIF cluster. Finally graduated though, I think they were just glad to get rid of yours truly. :)
Does that sound familiar? It might be pure apocrypha.
BTW: The uni also claimed (unverified, could be an empty threat) a multi-institution (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, etc.), code plagiarism detection system covering two decades of coursework. (Maybe MOSS.)
Interestingly I use a similar policy when selecting my passphrases. My passphrases are bad four-word poems about personal experiences. Thus I'm personally invested in protecting passphrases and keeping discipline even for "worthless" accounts. I wouldn't be comfortable about sharing even my old passphrases.
Not quite the same thing. What I have is more along the lines of work_around_BSD_make_bug, work_around_old_rhel_bug, work_around_docker_bug, and work_around_clang_bug.
