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Wholeheartedly agreed. Even if the student has the absolute best of intentions, you have no way of knowing that the laptop doesn't have say, malware on it.

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Usually these sorts of passwords are single-purpose just for getting around mundane firewall blocks, so they're not that critical.

So then what? The student just can't go ahead with the assigned task? This probably happens like 20 times a day for them.

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