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...reported on Friday that with a generic e-mail account, reporters were able to access, within 10 minutes, a list of every drug purchased by one Harvard student as well as the e-mail addresses and ID numbers of several students whose identities the University was required to keep secret under federal...
Show And Tell Want to know how much the chief executive of a big company in Britain, the U.S. or the Netherlands earns? Just ask the company. But not in Germany, where pay packages have long been a secret. Only 10 of the 30 firms in the DAX index disclose individual compensation; those who just say no include automakers DaimlerChrysler and BMW, chemical firm BASF and insurer Munich Re. But the pressure's on for greater disclosure. Last week a group of Germany's Social Democratic M.P.s proposed laws to force firms to provide pay details. Justice...
...glitch—and the vulnerabilities that remain—underscore the difficulties posed to information privacy by the widespread use of ID numbers to verify identity, even though those numbers are often not kept secret...
These vulnerabilities stem from Harvard’s use of a non-confidential number to verify identity and access secure systems. ID numbers, which Bradner says are considered “non-public but not secret,” are often widely distributed—to course heads and staff, on printed ID cards and even to students planning a barbecue...
...even if iCommons is fixed, The Crimson has identified a variety of web tools that require no more than the non-secret ID, or a combination of ID and last name or birthday, to access information that would generally be considered confidential...