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Why not just limit access to validated students?
by dzink 13y ago
Why not just limit access to validated students?
- vxNsr 13y agosounds like the biggest issue was that the ratings were so prominently displayed. Access was secondary and probably another excuse to use as a nail-in-the-coffin type deal.
- Goladus 13y agoThis is a simple question that very likely has no simple answer. They probably have a mess of different identity management solutions within the various departments, schools, and collaborators; with lots of really old security policies. It's possible no one even realized there was a hole until these guys made their site. Unable to figure out a deep security solution fast enough to keep up with a couple of young hackers, they shut the site down instead.
- arkinus 13y agoAccess was in fact limited to validated students. I think the administration was concerned about graduate students and others who weren't authorized having access to the data.
- michaelt 13y agoWhat's the problem with graduate students having access? At the place I went to graduate school we could view the same info as undergraduates in terms of course timetables and instructor evaluations, and it didn't seem to cause any problems.
- theorique 13y agoWhat's the problem with graduate students having access? Anything in the institution that the bureaucracy does not control completely, represents a "problem" to the bureaucracy.