The ball is now moving so wont be long before school has to come out about it
and the problems are fixed. Frustrating its taking so long, but eh so far no
one AFAIK is exploting it or maybe I'm wrong, but better for it to be 1 person
out there than having whole world know and try it out themselves. So for now
will wait and see how the situation turns out. I have to kick myself since I
left a message to the top guy at the school to call me back yesterday, but then
left house today to do some chores and he called back. So bleh...going to have
to wait again, the guys seems to be very busy always in meetings, or could be
doing nothing but watching TV. I'm sure the Attorney General won't like that
though =o)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sol Invictus" <sol@haveyoubeentested.org>
To: "CrYpTiC MauleR" <crypticmauler@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] What is wrong with schools these days?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:50:46 -0400
CrYpTiC MauleR wrote:
Already 2 school breaches on the news this week and my school
will soon be added to the ever growing list, is this a trend? I
mean how hard is it to protect some data. Allocate all the
sensitive data on a select few servers and harden the hell out of
them. Do these schools have info scattered around on various
servers and sites and don't know what is where? I mean Jesus
Christ just this week 477,000 personal records have been possibly
breached. Does anyone know of any federal law being made or in
discussion to prevent these from being an everyday thing and
enforcing policies like California has?
University after university is being hit, wait until elementary,
middle and high schools become attacked since so many are moving
towards putting and doing everything from grades, enrollment and
attendance through a computer network. Its a disaster waiting to
happen. I really wish there was better laws enforcing that these
areas are better protected.
Where do you think all these Bot-nets are coming from? They can't
all be businesses. Some of the biggest bot-nets out there are made
of schools. There mentality is to share information. They don't
like to keep info private. Until that mentality changes, you will
have this issue. And it won't change until there is a massive
breach of their lack of security and there is a big lawsuit against
the schools. If you want to be proactive, Call your attorney
general and tell them your Privacy Act information is freely
exposed by that entity. Or just go public. It's all your choice.
Your the one that holds everyone's info in your hands (whether
literally or not). The longer you wait, the more likely someone
else has that info as well.
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