full-disclosure - Re: Who Do I Contact?

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Date: Sun Apr 23 19:46:56 2006
From: crypticmauler at linuxmail.org (CrYpTiC MauleR)
Subject: Re: Who Do I Contact?

My parents do not work there, I never said they do. Did it ever occur to you that the school would have stored parent info from financial aid? also I do not plan on revealing any SSNs to anyone even to make a point. That will definetly get me jail time even if its in good faith.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave "No, not that one" Korn" <davek_throwaway@...mail.com>
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: Who Do I Contact?
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:11:40 +0100
> 
> 
> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 
> > The number of US universities big enough to have 7,000 incoming students
> > is extremely limited.  *that* little tidbit probably tells us more than
> > the fact his traceroute ends in Kansas.....
> 
>    Plus he just gave away that his parents work there, so we can cut it down
> to those where we can automatically find surname matches between the staff
> directory and the pupils list ....
> 
>    CM, my suggestion would be to phone up the Dean/Principal while he's in
> the middle of his sunday lunch and read out his SSN to him and tell him how
> he can go to his computer and see it for himself.  Do it from a phonebox,
> tell him he really needs to bang heads together in the IT department *now*,
> tell him you haven't messed or tampered with it in any way and you just want
> it fixed because your own data is in there too (don't mention the parents!)
> then say you're sorry but you hope he'll understand why you don't want to
> identify yourself and ring off.
> 
>    Then when you go to school on Monday you can enjoy the looks of pain on
> the faces of the IT staff who've been up all night fixing the hole because
> the Dean's torn them all a second one ... ;-D
> 
> 
>      cheers,
>        DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
> 
> 
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