Re: Your Confidential Records Available to All!

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From: Eli Allen
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00

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I just tried it on myself and it didn't work.  So they may have fixed it.
--
Eli Allen
eallen@bcpl.net

Tom Klancer <tklancer@wam.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:7b6p50$ce4$1@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu...
> 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... :/
>
> --
> Tom Klancer | tklancer@wam.umd.edu | tklancer@glue.umd.edu
>         /* Insert pithy pop-culture quote here. */

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From: "Eli Allen" <eallen@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Your Confidential Records Available to All!
Date: 1999/02/26
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