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Thanks to the efforts of two freshmen roommates, single students have a new tool to help them find romance just in time for Valentine?...
...keys - with photos, songs and travel plans all buried in hard-to-reach places - a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL - have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president of the search advisory firm Goebel Group.) These free programs, typically just a few megabytes...
...University disabled one website contributing to the problem, iCommons poll tool, on Thursday after the The Crimson demonstrated that it had allowed any internet user to look up the ID numbers of all Harvard students and employees. The tool had permitted poll authors to add anyone to a list of respondents to their poll, and then download a spreadsheet of those people’s e-mails, ID numbers and names...
Though reviews have found that only The Crimson had used the method required for a non-affiliate to access the poll tool, Wrinn said yesterday that Harvard was still reviewing possible misuse by Harvard affiliates. He said Harvard would be following up with users—like students who administered polls for classes—who should not have had access...
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students can request that the registrar put a security lock on their account, preventing the University from disclosing their directory information to the public. FERPA-secured students’ e-mail addresses were available in the iCommons Poll Tool...