In a telling example of higher education's misplaced priorities, a Canadian student was expelled for finding privacy flaws in a university's computer network. Fresh-faced 20-year-old hacker, Hamed Al-Khabaz, attempted to warn school administrators about a vulnerability he discovered in his school's network while working on a mobile app, but instead got accused by Dawson College's software company of a pre-meditated cyber attack. After meeting with administrators, he continued to test whether the school had actually had closed the privacy loophole and was expelled.
Friday, January 25, 2013
This Is What?s Wrong With College: Student Expelled For Exposing Network?s Privacy Flaws
In a telling example of higher education's misplaced priorities, a Canadian student was expelled for finding privacy flaws in a university's computer network. Fresh-faced 20-year-old hacker, Hamed Al-Khabaz, attempted to warn school administrators about a vulnerability he discovered in his school's network while working on a mobile app, but instead got accused by Dawson College's software company of a pre-meditated cyber attack. After meeting with administrators, he continued to test whether the school had actually had closed the privacy loophole and was expelled.
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