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...Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, who designed houseSYSTEM along with the Harvard Student Entrepreneurship Club (SEC), maintained that no one’s password—whether their genuine FAS password or not—had ever been in jeopardy. It was partially for this reason, he said, that he initially balked when Ellison informed him that the College administration wanted him to turn over the usernames of every houseSYSTEM registrant...
...HASCS wanted to instruct everybody using houseSYSTEM to change their password,” said Greenspan. “I objected to this on the count that there was no security risk...
...administration made other requests as well, according to Greenspan and Ellison. In addition to turning over a list of user names, he was asked to delete any FAS passwords—even if encrypted—that were in the houseSYSTEM database and to make sure that no project of his ever asked for FAS passwords again...
...Greenspan consented and sent the College the list, but said he was uncomfortable with the idea of turning over any information pertaining to users of houseSYSTEM. Integrated in the portal are all users from the old CriticalMass website, a site Greenspan created last year to act as a venue for feedback about classes and professors. Greenspan worried that with enough information, a student might be linked to what he or she had said previously about a class or instructor...
...certificate can encrypt chunks of information while traveling through networks. But buying an official certificate is expensive—and Greenspan said the fledgling SEC could not afford to purchase one right away. Instead, Greenspan integrated the publicly-available code for SSL into his site. But he lacks the official backing of companies that make commercial certificates to say the code is implemented and that information is safe. Greenspan said it is the same code—and, therefore, just as secure as any other company-signed certificate...