This Is What’S Wrong With College: Student Expelled For Exposing Netwo

[Nikkar Narayana]

[b] This Is What’s Wrong With College: Student Expelled For Exposing Network’s Privacy Flaws[/b]


In a telling example of higher education’s misplaced priorities, a Canadian student [url="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/student-expelled-after-finding-security-flaw-in-college-network-clashes-with-administrators/41977"]was expelled[/url] for finding privacy flaws in a university’s computer network. Fresh-faced 20-year-old hacker, Hamed Al-Khabaz, attempted to warn school administrators about a vulnerability he discovered in his school’s network while working on a mobile app, but instead got accused by Dawson College’s software company of a pre-meditated cyber attack. After meeting with administrators, he continued to test whether the school had actually had closed the privacy loophole and was expelled.
A university system that encourages students to aggressively tackle real-world problems would have praised the student; instead, they just wanted him to bury his head in books and labeled his explorations as an unrequested intrusion.

“Despite receiving clear directives not to, he attempted repeatedly to intrude into areas of college information systems that had no relation with student information systems,” explained the college.
“He thinks it’s only his house,” said Computer Science Chair, Ken Fogal, who compared Al-Khabaz’s actions to breaking into a house. “That house also has my information and my whole life stored there, and I’ve been in that house the last two years.”

Dawson College has resisted growing pressure from negative media exposure to reinstate the student and erase the F’s he was given, sparked by a cry for help that Al-Khabaz posted on YouTube (below)

http://youtu.be/UUG65Xun1XM


The technology discovered long ago that hackers made the best recruits. Facebook [url="http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137466533/the-last-word-in-business"]hired[/url] a 21-year-old who became famous for cracking the iPhone and breaching the PlayStation 3 console. The National Security Administration recruits future employees at the hacking festival, Defcon. “If you have a few, shall we say, [i]indiscretions[/i] in your past, don’t be alarmed,” [url="http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/27/technology/defcon-nsa/index.htm"]reads[/url] their career page.

A school system that was interested in preparing people for the real world and was aligned with the priorities of employers would encourage hacking. Indeed, Skytech, which makes the school’s Omnivox system that is used by nearly 100 colleges, has offered Al-Khabaz a scholarship.
Skytech and the over 10 tech companies that have offered him a job have their priorities straight. Why can’t we say the same for our system of higher education?

[Sastrygaru]

Talent chuupishte.. ila chesthara.. [img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]

[Spartan]

[quote name='Sastrygaru' timestamp='1359141369' post='1303175800']
Talent chuupishte.. ila chesthara.. [img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]
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Who wants to bet the system he was testing had a banner with a message similar to:
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ONLY AUTHORIZED USERS ARE ALLOWED TO LOG ON UNDER PENALTY OF LAW
This is a private computer network and may be used only by direct permission of its owners. The owners reserve the right to monitor use of this network to ensure network security and to respond to specific allegations of misuse. Use of this network shall constitute consent to monitoring for these and any other purposes. In addition, the owners reserve the right to consent to a valid law enforcement request to search the network for evidence of a crime stored within this network.
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In the future maybe he will learn that there are penalties associated with illegal activity in Information Security. He should consider himself lucky that he doesn't have more serious charges brought against him. He should have stopped when he brought the issue to the department's attention, and not proceeded to poke at the system.

[Darling999]

enti nijam cheppinaa kodtaaraa [img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]

[Sastrygaru]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1359141400' post='1303175806']



Who wants to bet the system he was testing had a banner with a message similar to:
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ONLY AUTHORIZED USERS ARE ALLOWED TO LOG ON UNDER PENALTY OF LAW
This is a private computer network and may be used only by direct permission of its owners. The owners reserve the right to monitor use of this network to ensure network security and to respond to specific allegations of misuse. Use of this network shall constitute consent to monitoring for these and any other purposes. In addition, the owners reserve the right to consent to a valid law enforcement request to search the network for evidence of a crime stored within this network.
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In the future maybe he will learn that there are penalties associated with illegal activity in Information Security. He should consider himself lucky that he doesn't have more serious charges brought against him. He should have stopped when he brought the issue to the department's attention, and not proceeded to poke at the system.
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maa niversity lo oka desi gaadu.. network admin..and inka paina unna valla systems ani hack chesaadu.. oka roojuki.. and he got complete control over most of the machines.. elagoo telidhu kani..
aa prof ki 30+ yers exp.. bayataki.. tliyakunda jagartha paddadu.. aa pillodi tho.. maatladukoni..

[img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]

[ToughGuy]

Banner vunte ...vaadu bisuit avuthadu ... banner ledu ante vaadu safe

[Bestguy]

Papm career nasnam chesaru univ valluu.

[jbourne]

[quote name='Sastrygaru' timestamp='1359141559' post='1303175823']

maa niversity lo oka desi gaadu.. network admin..and inka paina unna valla systems ani hack chesaadu.. oka roojuki.. and he got complete control over most of the machines.. elagoo telidhu kani..
aa prof ki 30+ yers exp.. bayataki.. tliyakunda jagartha paddadu.. aa pillodi tho.. maatladukoni..

[img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]
[/quote]


antha scene vundaa mama mana university lo

[ChampakDas]

Mark gadu chesindhi edhey kada mundhu...thokeyandi talent

[Sastrygaru]

[quote name='jbourne' timestamp='1359146845' post='1303176630']


antha scene vundaa mama mana university lo
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yeah.. maa univ lo jariginghi.. kaani adhi bayataki raadhu.. evvadu details seffadu.. [img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]

[maverickpuli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODIk-L2Gm0

seems like some one has already offered him scholarship to go on man media does do wonders then wtf tv9 is doing now a days.

[jbourne]

[quote name='Sastrygaru' timestamp='1359148482' post='1303176916']

yeah.. maa univ lo jariginghi.. kaani adhi bayataki raadhu.. evvadu details seffadu.. [img]http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6559/brahmis.gif[/img]
[/quote]
nenu ade university transferred ippudu

software engineering lo vallu chala mandii telsu

[jbourne]

[quote name='maverickpuli' timestamp='1359148609' post='1303176940']
[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODIk-L2Gm0[/media]

seems like some one has already offered him scholarship to go on man media does do wonders then wtf[size=6] tv9 [/size]is doing now a days.
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they are fing ppl n politicos