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It is dangerous to report bugs

A student in Montreal was expelled after informing the college where he studied that there was a security flaw http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/17/montreal-studen...

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I am glad I went to a university that reacted appropriately. I found a bad issue (students passwords for system that held their ssns, grades, financial info etc was world readable) and got a pat on the back for them. I went through a prominent CS professor instead of directly reporting it though.

I dunno... it appears that he was expelled for some other reason, not the original reporting of the bug?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

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