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I'm always surprised bythe number of people that leave my School's computer lab without signing out. Each login has access to certain shared directories (depending on course schedule and research) and their own personal drive. And people just get up and leave with this open for anyone to access. Personally, I instantly log them off, and log myself onto the computer because I don't want to look at their stuff.
This reminds me a bit of living in the dorms a few years back as an undergrad. Via the ethernet connection, you could set up shared folders than anyone on the campus could get to. Usually, people did read-only folders of music, videos, porn and whatnot, and some of us set up read/write folders for the sole interest of friends uploading some things from time to time (these folders were generally only shared for a few minutes while the transfer occured to keep others from messing). Well, a few of us were looking around the network, and found a person that shared their entire C:/ drive, and it was read/write access. We had no idea who it was, but we knew that anyone could seriously fuck up their computer and data really easily. One of my friends ended up creating a text file on the computer's desktop that basically said, "you shouldn't share your whole C:/ drive like this because people can mess it up." The user got it and remedied the situation.
Point is, you have to be careful about digital stuff. Do unto others, man.
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