Re: myedu.com abuse

[Roger A Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

My assumption is they would say exactly what everyone says,  "Give us a court order and we'll be happy to comply with 
it".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Chet Langin
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:03 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] myedu.com abuse
>
>
> All,
>
> One of our professors has received an abusive e-mail via myedu.com, which
> is apparently a web site that allows students to rate
> professors and classes.  It apparently works like this:  a student creates an
> account on myedu.com and rates the professor/class.
> However, apparently the student can also use this myedu.com account to
> write an e-mail which is then anonymously sent to the
> professor.  We have the headers and traced the e-mail back to myedu.com
> from the headers.  Before, I try to contact myedu.com, I was
> wondering if anyone else has already done this and could give me an idea as
> to what to expect.
>
>
> --
> Chet Langin, GCIA, GSEC
> SIUC Information Security Officer