http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/toekangit/post.htm?id=63006854 By Budi Putra CNet Asia Oct 13, 2008 Amid concerns about privacy and security on the Internet, the Indonesian Ministry of Education recently put up a detailed database of students online and in downloadable files. There are at least 36 million students listed on the Web site in Excel files containing names, dates, places of birth and addresses! I got the breaking news the last weekend from Treespotter's blog [1]. He wrote: The database was put online a while ago, but Google had already indexed it by now--if you have kids at school (private, public and religious schools all)--you can try Googling them to see what comes out. You can find the FULL FILES in XLS downloadables without too much trouble. Of your children. As I wrote in my blog, the Government's blunder just confirms one thing: They have a lack of capacity and capability in optimizing the New Media benefit. They may have good intent to put online a complete database, but clearly aren't aware about the issues of privacy and security. How could they publish the complete addresses and details (even the dates of births) on their Web site? I downloaded one of its Excel files at that time, and got a shock reading all details of Indonesian students there! Today, as of publishing this post, the downloadable database is still there. (I will not post any link here for obvious reasons). [1] http://treespotter.blogspot.com/2008/10/diknas-and-bakrie-alert.html [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Tue Oct 14 2008 - 22:23:52 PDT
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