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WiFi Exposes Sensitive Student Data

Posted by simoniker on from the a-great-thing-if-implemented-carefully dept.

cfarivar writes "'Like leaving a vault open, the Palo Alto Unified School District failed to place a number of highly sensitive computer files containing student information in a locked location on its network. Using a laptop with a wireless card outside the district's main office, the Palo Alto Weekly gained access to such data as grades, home phone numbers and addresses, emergency medical information complete with full-color photos of students and a psychological evaluation."

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  1. Upside by The_Rippa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Match.com and Yahoo Personals will have plenty of photos of young nubile girls to fill the fake ads on their service with.

  2. Well... by Bob+Vila's+Hammer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The district has known about some aspects of this vulnerability for nearly nine months, but failed to take action until the Weekly informed officials of the situation late last week -- a somewhat ironic development given the school board's recent adoption of a technology-use policy.

    Well when it comes to information security on Palo Alto networks, they get a big F. Fortunately, a low-level net admin was able to change the grade to an A.

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    --"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
  3. Interesting... by Trent+Polack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish my old high school would've had something like that happen to them. I WANT TO SEE MY PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION!

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    Trent Polack
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