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I used to work at Skytech. We already had a case of a student discovering a flaw in our code while I was there and things went very smoothly. We contacted the s
by Khao 14y ago
I used to work at Skytech. We already had a case of a student discovering a flaw in our code while I was there and things went very smoothly. We contacted the student, he told us what the flaw was, we corrected it. Edouard made him sign a non-disclosure agreement and made him delete all the data he had gotten from our servers and that was the end of it. This student was a brilliant student with excellent grades just like Hamed.
Now why is this story different this time? I'm not too sure since I've left a couple years ago, but my guess would be that the college administrators have taken this decision. Knowing Edouard Taza, I doubt he would have pushed for this student to be expelled, since he clearly has a great future in software and could be one day employed at Skytech to fix even more security holes.
Edit : hadn't finished reading the article, it seems the professors decided to kick the student out : "Following this meeting, the fifteen professors in the computer science department were asked to vote on whether to expel Mr. Al-Khabaz, and fourteen voted in favour." To me what this says is their computer science department is full of idiots. Any good CS professor would have understood that Hamed didn't have any malicious intent.
- unreal37 14y agoNo, what this tells me is that Mr Al-Khabaz continued trying to hack the server even when told to stop. Whats the difference between the reaction we all expect (including your story) and this? The difference is Mr Al-Khabaz continuing to try to break into the web servers. He got kicked out of CEGEP. He'll survive unharmed. Sad that he thinks getting publicity is worth it though.