Friday, October 29, 2004
Oxford pair suspended for hacking
Interesting story, for numerous reasons.
Essentially, the students are claiming that this was ethical hacking, which it may well have been - but one of the approaches to ethical hacking is to let the organisation know you are about to try, and get their agreement - preferably, signed on a piece of paper.
Interesting story, for numerous reasons.
- Universities do have regulations regarding their computer systems, which they have every right to enforce
- Universites keep a lot of sensitive material on their machines - if they do not keep it securely then they are almost certainly in breach of data protection laws - and it appears that problems were exposed. So who is most at fault?
- This was not some fiendishly clever student creating a new hack - they used software that was "easy to obtain from Google"
Essentially, the students are claiming that this was ethical hacking, which it may well have been - but one of the approaches to ethical hacking is to let the organisation know you are about to try, and get their agreement - preferably, signed on a piece of paper.
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