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...sharing their most personal information with their individual care providers as well as with UHS pharmacists and other medical personnel. Until roughly two weeks ago, a company called PharmaCare provided UHS and its patients a means to store and access this information. Before intersession, Crimson reporters discovered a glitch in the system that allowed any internet user on Harvard’s network to generate a complete list of prescription medications purchased by individual students through the UHS pharmacy. The reporters used only the last name of a student and an ID number—easily obtained through other Harvard...
Until yesterday afternoon, exploiting such vulnerabilities could have been made easier by the long-standing glitch in the polling tool. The website, which allows people to design and conduct surveys, enabled anyone—with or without Harvard affiliation—to search the entire Harvard directory by first or last name, e-mail address or Harvard ID number. Unlike other campus directories, the system did not hide users who have requested FERPA security from the University, or respect other user-set restrictions on the distribution of their directory data...
...about 280 travelers on a diverted plane for more than 14 hours straight. But Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines based in Cincinnati, Ohio, may have won the Grinch Award: the airline canceled all 1,100 flights on Christmas Day because of what it said was a computer glitch...
Fact: For a few seconds last Thursday, Kristi’s facebook.com profile listed her as “single” due to a programming glitch. After pacifying her boyfriend, placing calls to family and friends urging them not to jump to drastic conclusions and sending a mass e-mail to members of The Seneca, who had already begun stockpiling Kleenex and bee-lining it to Lowell, Kristi sent a politely irate e-mail to Mark Zuckerberg and the error was promptly corrected...
...addition to the group glitch, Moore supporters said it was difficult for users to access the candidate’s personal page...