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January 21, 2013 11:00 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cJ436AThD_4/montreal-comp-sci-student-repo.html
Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed
Ahmed Al-Khabaz was a 20-year-old computer science student at Dawson College in Montreal, until he discovered a big, glaring bug in Omnivox, software widely used by Quebec's junior college system. The bug exposed the personal information (social insurance number, home address, class schedule) of its users. When Al-Khabaz reported the bug to Franois Paradis, his [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cJ436AThD_4/montreal-comp-sci-student-repo.html
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