{"id":63,"date":"2008-08-07T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/07\/harvard-computing-services-needs-better-security-to-protect-studentsfacultystaffaffiliates\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T00:13:07","slug":"harvard-computing-services-needs-better-security-to-protect-studentsfacultystaffaffiliates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/07\/harvard-computing-services-needs-better-security-to-protect-studentsfacultystaffaffiliates\/","title":{"rendered":"harvard computing services needs better security to protect students\/faculty\/staff\/affiliates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/08\/07\/harvard-computing-services-needs-better-security-to-protect-studentsfacultystaffaffiliates\/harvard-shield\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/files\/2008\/08\/harvard_u_shield.jpg' alt='Harvard Shield' width=\"300\" height=\"290\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No wonder Zuckerberg had such a simple time illegally setting up the original Facebook on Harvard servers; Harvard doesn&#8217;t provide enough security for its students. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs a consultant for Harvard Mathematics, security of my own work and the work of the department in general needs to be protected. Who would have thought that with only a few commands in terminal, could a full student roster name be displayed, complete with contact information. Active users&#8217; IP addresses can be easily found, and attacked through the use of the Harvard servers as drones. &#8220;Root&#8221; itself is clearly accessible, and with a simple brute force mechanism, can allow for the addition or removal or student\/faculty\/staff web rights.<\/p>\n<p>To Harvard CIS: Please bulk up security. I don&#8217;t want everyone to be able to read my e-mail\/access confidential works. It&#8217;s in your best interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder Zuckerberg had such a simple time illegally setting up the original Facebook on Harvard servers; Harvard doesn&#8217;t provide enough security for its students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}