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"School system officials say Google broke through the password and username protected server the information was stored in and took a photo of the page, which it posted to the Internet." -- ummmmmmm....
Catawba County schools sue Google over breach
Seeded on Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:23 AM EDT
Article Source: The Winston-Salem Journal- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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The school district inadvertently posted 619 of its students social security numbers on the web. I mean, they didn't inadvertently do it. The document with the ssn's were password protected, and Google sleuthed them out, and now they're suing Google. But wait, how could Google get up on that password protected stuff? Google can't. Somebody's wrong here.
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#1 - Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:26 AM EDTHow much do you want to bet that the school put a password on the front page to link to the information, but left the actual pages with information unprotected. It's not the path you want them to take that you need to protect. I can lock my front door, but if I have no walls, there's no way to keep a burgler out... People could have been stealing identities way before Google indexed the site.
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#2 - Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:34 PM EDTShoudnt they actually ask an expert and prove something illegal happend before actually going ahead with a lawsuit. SHoot they probably could have asked most of their students and they would exlain on why it isnt and cant be googles fault.
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#3 - Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:43 PM EDTI am surprised nobody mentioned that the judges name is Richard D. Boner. Imagine growing up as a kid with the name Dick Boner.
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#4 - Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:25 PM EDTTheir just trying to blame someone else for their own stupidity. It's the American way to sue someone else for your own mistake.
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