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...FAS IT may be able to provide more definitive information about whether anyone accessed the voting software inappropriately soon, according to Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life Susan Marine, who attended yesterday’s Executive Board meeting and said that Jay Carter, FAS IT’s director of information security, would search for signs of improper access today...
...Tuesday, Nov. 17—after approximately 2,200 votes had been cast, according to Morris—Seiler, a computer science concentrator who worked at Google last summer, wrote a logging program from his own personal FAS account to address the database “vulnerability,” which Seiler said had existed since the system was first designed. The program he wrote would notify him anytime anyone accessed the MySQL database on which the votes were stored, he said...
...mail from McLeod’s personal FAS account was sent with the subject line “PLEASE READ: Retraction of UC-Presidential Email...
Apparently, there are two parts to the election software. The front end deals with the voting itself, the tabulation of results, the addition of candidates, and so on. The back end contains the Audit Log that had been assessed by the FAS IT. Hysen says he assumed that he had been removed from both ends, but it turns out that Seiler had not removed him from the back end. But Hysen swears that he didn't log in to the program and that he was too busy campaigning to have time...
Really, now? Hayward claims that he only wants to find out one thing: "Did anyone have access to the software?" Apparently, FAS IT results aren't enough...