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UW survey details student computer use

Sixty percent of UW-Madison students reported in a recent survey that they never change the passwords they use for their campus accounts, although about 75 percent never intentionally share their NetID and passwords with others.

“That’s a good start, but it still gives us some cause for concern,” Jim Lowe, chief information security officer, said in a statement. “We would like to see all students regularly change and never share their passwords.”