Electronic Frontiers Wyoming (fwd)

[Jeff Davis]

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