Blackboard and WebCT merge

Acidangl writes "Blackboard and WebCT, leading providers of enterprise software and services to the education industry have announced plans to merge." From the article: "Under terms of the agreement, Blackboard will acquire WebCT in a cash transaction for $180 million, which values the offer at approximately $154 million, net of WebCT's August 31, 2005 cash balance of $26 million. The ultimate value of the offer will vary depending on WebCT's cash balance at closing."

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"Holes" can happen anywhere, even on an OS

[Work Account]

By "OS" I mean simply file/directory permissions.

In college I was looking through shared files/directories of a computer science professor because he had code snippets from lab and problem sets etc. shared for us to access.

Unfortunately I was able to get into a directory that students should not have and suddenly I saw files that looked like solutions to the current programming project.

I didn't look but I think 80% of other students would have.

I phoned him immediately at his home number, and he was annoyed at the dinnertime call and I think wondering how/why I found it, but was glad in the end because he could appropriately "chmod 600" the directory instead of "666" or "777" like it was set.

My whole point is that security holes and such can often just be human error and not the actual software.

This nothing new; don't take it out on Blackboard.