full-disclosure - Who Do I Contact?

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Date: Sat Apr 22 17:52:23 2006
From: eaton.lists at gmail.com (Brian Eaton)
Subject: Who Do I Contact?

On 4/22/06, CrYpTiC MauleR <crypticmauler@...uxmail.org> wrote:
> I am sorry I am not going to say who the school is. Mainly because so many
> socials numbers are at risk including mine. I have contacted the VP of Information
> Technology and he assured me he would call the company that makes the website.
> After 20 days the hole was not fixed, so I called the department heads and am
> giving them 48 hours from then which is now currently at 24 hours before I move
> onto notifying someone else. I was also thinking about contacting FBI about this
> seeing they handle school breaches but not sure.

How about notifying the school newspaper?  Take a tech savvy reporter,
prove to them the hole exists, and let them get some quotes from the
VP of IT explaining exactly what the school is doing to fix the
problem.

A little sunshine can have some wonderful effects.

Regards,
Brian