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Security is silly.

  The other day, I was on the website for Tiny City's school.  I don't remember what I was looking for, it wasn't very important.  I was clicking different links and looking at stuff they had posted.  I clicked the link for registration forms and oh my goodness.   For the last three years, the idiots in Tiny City scan all of their new students' school enrollment paperwork and save it publicly to Google Drive.  As in, anyone can access the students' paperwork.  It's got the kids' names, addresses, parents' phone numbers and emails, doctor and dentist information, whether the kid is riding the bus, etc.  This covers kids from 4K through high school.  If I had a kid in that district, I'd be pretty pissed off that all of their information was available on the Internet like that.  Personally, I don't think it's safe whatsoever.   While I disapprove of how they handle this, the upside is that I was able to get a copy of the paperwork ...