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Article #3586Re: Your Confidential Records Available to All!
From: Tom Klancer
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
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Saqib Ali (saqib@cs.umd.edu) wrote:
: There is a huge gaping security hole with the MARS telephone system
: as I write this post. Because of this, all students' sensitive registration
: records, grades, financial information is freely available to anyone with
: their social security number....
: Just try it.
Very interesting... You're 100% right. (Also, it seems I owe the school money and didn't know
it... hmmm...) Have you reported this to anyone? the MARS people? The Diamondback?
: This example is a benign one. Anyone with your social security number can drop
: all your classes for you or register you in whatever you want.
: Pretty great, huh?
Yeah, I just love finding that my personal info is open to the world... :/
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Tom Klancer | tklancer@wam.umd.edu | tklancer@glue.umd.edu
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