Comment by gjsman-1000
4 years ago
I was at my own community college 2 years ago, and they had those Smart TVs showing news and weather everywhere, as well as custom images uploaded by the clubs on campus.
It was supposed to be that a club could log into them, make, and submit a graphic to display on the TVs, but the school would have to review them before they would be displayed.
However, I would later find out, a software update had messed up the roles system and so that club username/password which was in a public document actually had the ability to post things immediately on the TVs, without review. I found this out when I made a Math Club poster, hit the button, and it was immediately live without a check.
I just reported it and it was fixed the next day. My instructor said that could have been really really bad considering some more unscrupulous college kids who would have (not naming names) probably gotten a kick out of throwing pr0n on them...
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