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Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:46PM from the so-what's-a-few-snapshots-anyhow dept.

PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."

A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:19PM from the difracting-imposed-distinctions dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you probably know, Earth's magnetosphere, 'the invisible bubble of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surrounds and protects the planet from the periodically lethal radiation of the solar wind,' was discovered in 1958. Until now, it was believed to comprise five regions, including the ionosphere or the Van Allen radiation belts. Now, a US research team has discovered a sixth region, called the warm plasma cloak."

Comment Students Fought Back (Score 1) 518

by TripQue on Friday September 24, 1999 @11:42AM (#1660944) Attached to: I Am Not a Student, I Am a Number

I was a student at Denison University in Ohio. We also had our SSNs in plain text on a photo ID. The student senate raised a stink, and these numbers were removed from subsequent badges (after a protracted argument with the administration and threats of legal action). I applaud these students for standing up for their privacy.

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