[Infowarrior] - Fwd: Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding "sloppy coding" that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data

Richard Forno rforno at infowarrior.org
Mon Jan 21 12:53:09 CST 2013



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Kulawiec

> (h/t to Nadim Kobeissi)
> 
> 	Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding "sloppy coding" that compromised security of 250,000 students personal data
> 	http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/
> 
> Same old story, complete with the customary vacuous denial-by-assertion:
> 
> 	"We acted immediately to fix the problem, and were able to do
> 	so before anyone could use it to access private information."



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