Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding "sloppy coding" that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

(h/t to Nadim Kobeissi)

        Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding "sloppy coding" that compromised security of 250,000 
students personal data
        
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/

Same old story, complete with the customary vacuous denial-by-assertion:

        "We acted immediately to fix the problem, and were able to do
        so before anyone could use it to access private information."

Riiiiiiight, so you weren't good enough to avoid creating the vulnerability
in the first place, yet you are somehow omniscient enough to know that
nobody, that's right, NOBODY, exploited the hole before you fixed it.

---rsk

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