Re: Directory Trolling

["Laverty, Patrick" <patrick_laverty () BROWN EDU>]

We don't make email addresses available to members of the public.  You get
more data if you're using the directory from within our campus, which then
includes the email address.

Patrick Laverty
Brown University
http://directory.brown.edu




On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Bennett <dbennett () pct edu> wrote:

> I am interested to know if any university has seen student abuse of their
> online public directory?  I have seen some instances where students will use
> that directory to contact other students from a class and send a cancelation
> notice to the students in a class when in fact the class was not canceled.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Bennett
> IT Security Analyst
> Pennsylvania College of Technology
> P:570.329.4989
> E:dbennett () pct edu <E%3Adbennett () pct edu>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Connelly
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:22 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Directory Trolling
>
> Northwestern displays the e-mail address from a directory lookup as a
> simplistic captcha image. I've been trying for a couple of years to get
> a similar thing implemented here, but so far...
>
> http://directory.northwestern.edu/
>
> - ken
>
> On 6/15/10 11:43 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Did any of you encountered Directory Trolling? Any thoughts on how to
> > prevent this? In the Corporate world, we don't expose directories at
> > all, so it was never a big issue! We are planning to have Captcha, but
> > it might be a usability thing.
> >
> > Any help, greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ravi Kumar, CISSP
> >
> > Middleware Manager
> >
> > ITS, Enterprise Infra Services
> >
> > Boston College - St. Clement's
> >
> > P: 617.552.3382
>
> --
> - Ken
> =================================================================
> Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
> ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
> email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373