nek4life, where are you from St. Jay? I'm from Littleton myself and was pretty dumbfounded when I found the Caledonian Record as the #2 result on the front page of HN.
I actually just signed my grandmother up to their service here and all it is, is a paid subscription to pdf copies of their newspaper as they release it. Theres not exactly much to protect there and worst case scenario is that someone gets some free copies of the paper. I don't think its such a big deal for them to be a little lax with password security given what you get behind the security wall. (as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere ... which may be the real problem here)
> as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere
Most people do reuse passwords. That's the reason this is significant. It wouldn't be newsworthy if a service like this screwed up and made getting free copies of the hometown newspaper easy.
Yeah I'm from St. Johnsbury but now I'm currently living in Burlington, VT. I was in total shock seeing the caledonianrecord.com domain on the front page. They used to have the actual articles online so I'm surprised to hear that they switched over to publishing the pdf's instead but that probably makes sense as the staff doesn't have to web publishing skills (as easy as that seems to the people that are reading this.) The switching of the username and password baffles me but perhaps they gave out generated usernames and passwords to begin with so it wasn't such a big deal. Although I'm really questioning the logic right now.
I lived in Bethlehem and Franconia for many years, before moving to Vermont for a while (still along 302, though-- but I've been in Norway for the past 13 years or so. Never expected to see the Caledonian Record on HN.
I'm surprised about the number of Vermonters on here, but I guess a post like this would bring them out. I'm in Rutland myself, but have business in St. Johnsbury / Lyndonville.
I actually just signed my grandmother up to their service here and all it is, is a paid subscription to pdf copies of their newspaper as they release it. Theres not exactly much to protect there and worst case scenario is that someone gets some free copies of the paper. I don't think its such a big deal for them to be a little lax with password security given what you get behind the security wall. (as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere ... which may be the real problem here)