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Electronic Frontiers Wyoming (fwd)
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> From: [email protected] (eagle)
> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Electronic Frontiers Wyoming
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:00:23 -0700 (MST)
> Cc: [email protected] (John Perry Barlow), [email protected],
> [email protected] (Dan Brown), [email protected] (Stanton McCandlish),
> [email protected], [email protected] (Andrew Burt),
> [email protected] (Bruce Dane), [email protected] (Ron Carter),
> [email protected]
>
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> It was nice talking to you at the Information Center in the Union earlier.
> You might like to know that Information Technology in conjunction with
> Administration and Records has seen fit in a convulsion of gross idiocy to
> publish your entire UW transcript on the World Wide Web. Anyone with your
> social security number and your registration PIN can dowload your entire
> transcript and post it to Usenet News if they so desire, where your grades
> would be replicated in computers, and circling the planet in a few minutes.
> By gross malfecence, the University of Wyoming has seen fit to *PUBLISH* *ALL*
> the Non Degree seeking Graduate Students PIN in the Summer Bulletin; 4723.
>
> Patrick, who is a non degree seeking grad student, went ballistic when I gave
> him *his* PIN to access his transcript. The web browser also writes your
> social security number to the screen, so anyone watching over your shoulder
> has all the information they need to violate your right to privacy. It's
> really stupid to create an HTTP link directly into the cgi-bin as well.
>
> You can check this out for yourself at Whistle:
>
> http://siswww.uwyo.edu/cgi-win/homepage.exe
>
> Or wait until the Program Analyst I in charge of computer security at the
> Water Resources Center, (they paid him more money that Math CoSci), writes
> a *scathing* letter to the Branding Iron. It will be signed Patrick Malone.
>
> This bit of better living via Electronic Revolution has been brought to you
> by your friendly neighborhood Cypherpunk.
>
> Jeff
>
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