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Another School Exposes Private Information
DutchSter writes "In the wake of other schools announcing the theft of hardware containing sensitive student information, Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, has announced that a file containing the name, Social Security number, the grade point average for the Fall 2002 semester, cumulative grade point average, and other related academic information, such as credit hours attempted that semester, for all 21,000 students who attended the Fall 2002 term has been available on a web server for the last three years. The discovery was made this week and the university is taking steps to deal with the fall-out sure to come."
...and where do I send my resume ?
you think it's easy, but you're wrong...
Miami University... must be in Florida.
Oh, it's in Oxford... must be in England.
Bzzzzzt. BUT NO! It's in Ohio!
It must have taken a long time to come up with that combination of naming and placement.
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Three cheers for Business School's retarded cousin.
Miami University...in Oxford...Ohio.
Met a girl from Miami that went to Oxford, and didn't like the song "Ohio." Seems a little less obscure, too. Yet, this school has 21,000 students? I mean...that's more than the real Oxford...the one that's not in Ohio, but has students from Miami...
I have a copy of a book called "Get Even" (published sometime in the 80s, probably out of print now). Anyway, the book has Richard Nixon's actual SSN in it, which it recommends using on forms and such which demand an SSN for no good reason. I wouldn't actually do that, as it's probably some sort of federal crime or something to impersonate a deceased former president. But I imagine using the SSN of a dead relative would probably work instead. If the issue ever gets raised at school or wherever, just claim their database must be corrupt and offer to help them upgrade to FoxPro 2.6.
Andrew Lenahan http://www.starblind.com/
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Sue the hell out of the person who discovered the security hole. That will show em.
Hacker Media
It was later found out to be a misspelt url that was causing the problem.
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Business school? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *wipes a tear from my eye* Arguing about which business school is better is like arguing which tastes better, dog shit, or cat shit.
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SchoolMAX
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or one out of three ain't bad
I say, sirruh, we Americans may on average be large assholes, but that is a bit much, don't you think?
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
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Anyone got the torrent?
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Back then we carried around sheets of paper with our information. Some used a redundancy method known as "carbon copy" - in which the user would write once and the data would be recorded in many places.
Though I had to physically walk miles to track down professors without watches, the data was always securely stored in the back pocket of my jeans or stuffed into my backpack.
Best of all, we relied upon social engineering security and things like locked wooden file cabinets. The security team was staffed by should-have-already-retired women who hated all people and wore too-tight pastel colored polyester blouses and shirts. But nothing got past them.
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
The information released also included demographics. I've obtained the information and masked off the personally identifying information so I could show the sort of demographic information made available:
... Gender Dress ...
... Male, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap
... Female, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap with pony tail pulled through
... Male, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap
... Female, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap with pony tail pulled through
... Male, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap
... Male, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap
... Female, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap with pony tail pulled through
... Female, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap with pony tail pulled through
... Male, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap
... Female, Khaki shorts, white T-shirt, ball cap with pony tail pulled through
(if you've been there, you'll understand)