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From: eagle@nyx.net (eagle) Message-Id: <9603121000.AA25993@nyx.net> Subject: Electronic Frontiers Wyoming To: kellee@uwyo.edu Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:00:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: barlow@eff.org (John Perry Barlow), mnemonic@eff.org, brown@eff.org (Dan Brown), mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish), ssteele@eff.org, aburt@nyx.net (Andrew Burt), mbarry@stout.entertain.com (Bruce Dane), rcarter@nyx.net (Ron Carter), eagle@armory.com
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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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