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In my 2nd year of university the chair of the CS department shared an excel file via email containing the private data of all the CS students. ID numbers, addre
by spike021 11y ago
In my 2nd year of university the chair of the CS department shared an excel file via email containing the private data of all the CS students. ID numbers, addresses, phone numbers, first/last names.
He claimed it was meant for an office assistant but somehow he blasted it to both the BS and MS student lists. I doubt he got more than a slap on the wrist as he remained the chair for another 2-3 years.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoAt my university, a publicly accessible file on the university systems listed addresses, phone numbers, and names for all students, not just those of a particular department. Leaking the same information in an email would have been superfluous. Are those supposed to be secret?
- spike021 11y agoI don't know, maybe they are publicly accessible with FERPA. However, considering that some secure systems on (my) campus are pre-registered to our names using just firstname-lastname@xyz.edu with the password being the ID, or some other simple variation thereof, I don't feel very comfortable about it. As much as I wish I lived in a perfect world, I don't, and so it wouldn't surprise me that students don't think to change their original passwords to secure ones.
- superuser2 11y agoThis information is in fact public record unless you have a FERPA opt-out in effect.
- aidenn0 11y agoAll of this information was available via "finger" on a sun e5000 server when I was in college.