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wegs
8y ago
Insider here: The sort of shit which happened here -- with "confidential" student data misused -- is rampant at MIT. Survey map to dorms isn't even the tip of the iceberg. My guess is that at some point, we'll have a Wat
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wegs
8y ago
Meh. This sort of thing happens all the time. It gets hushed up pretty well. What's unique here is author came forward with his story. Academia is in sore need of reform. Especially elite academia has learned branding matters more than
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wegs
8y ago
A while back, I ran into a security hole in T-Mobile. Confidential customer data was quite literally available on the Internet via a Google search. This was due to a half-dozen missing very basic security precautions (forms using GET instea