Word: tooled
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...easy to imagine a late-night infomercial for Logitech's newest business tool, the Cordless 2.4-GHz Presenter, because it performs the PowerPoint equivalent of slicing and dicing. Mainly it's a remote for Microsoft's presentation software that lets you launch a show and advance through slides, then fade to black. You can raise the volume remotely if you have multimedia slides. You can do all that while roaming around a room - as much as 15 m from your laptop - because the device talks to a receiver plugged into the USB jack. For the long-winded exec, the Presenter...
...disabled Harvard website, iCommons Poll Tool, required nothing more than a free, anonymous Hotmail account and five minutes to look up the eight-digit ID of any student, faculty or staff member...
After the iCommons Poll Tool was shut down last night, University Technology Security Officer Scott Bradner said that “there’s no condition under which [the ID number] should have been shared…It was not a design feature...
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...
...added yesterday evening that preliminary analysis of the usage logs of the poll tool showed that prior to pulling the site, only The Crimson had used the method that non-Harvard affiliates could use to gain access...