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Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS) sent an e-mail yesterday to over 400 students who had registered to use houseSYSTEM—a student-created web portal that sparked controversy last week because of potential security vulnerabilities—instructing users to change their e-mail passwords because they “may have been compromised on a web server located off campus...
...after the initial launch of houseSYSTEM—which promised to allow students to trade textbooks, give feedback about classes and check e-mail—and followed a spate of e-mails over the Lowell House open e-mail list, debating the possible security risks of using the portal...
...yesterday, 402 people had registered with the portal or with its predecessor, CriticalMass, according to Lowell House Senior Tutor Jay L. Ellison, though it is not known how many of those people had provided their actual FAS password...
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...
...both Ellison and Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said that they had neither requested nor received any information other than the list of user names registered to use the portal...