Yeah, something like this happened at my university a couple of years back. A student found a vulnerability that allowed root access, and sent an email to both the IT department and the CS department. Of course, the CS department fixed it right away, but when the IT department didn't do anything about it, he sent them an email as root reminding them again of the vulnerability. As you might expect, the IT dept flipped out and tried to get him expelled for such and such offence, but fortunately rationality prevailed and he was let off.
Something that jumped out at me when reading the article was that the subject pool was only 1,004 people. I will admit that I am no statistician, but 1000 people sounds quite a small number to represent almost 300 million people. The location of the people polled could have a drastic effect on the results. If you polled 1000 people living in the bible belt, the results would be vastly different than, say, someone in San Francisco or something. Anyway, correct me on this if I'm wrong on this, it's just that this little tidbit stuck out to me.
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Yeah, something like this happened at my university a couple of years back. A student found a vulnerability that allowed root access, and sent an email to both the IT department and the CS department. Of course, the CS department fixed it right away, but when the IT department didn't do anything about it, he sent them an email as root reminding them again of the vulnerability. As you might expect, the IT dept flipped out and tried to get him expelled for such and such offence, but fortunately rationality prevailed and he was let off.
Something that jumped out at me when reading the article was that the subject pool was only 1,004 people. I will admit that I am no statistician, but 1000 people sounds quite a small number to represent almost 300 million people. The location of the people polled could have a drastic effect on the results. If you polled 1000 people living in the bible belt, the results would be vastly different than, say, someone in San Francisco or something. Anyway, correct me on this if I'm wrong on this, it's just that this little tidbit stuck out to me.