This Is What?s Wrong With College: Student Expelled For Exposing Network?s Privacy Flaws

In a telling example of higher education's misplaced priorities, a Canadian student was expelled for finding privacy flaws in a university's computer network. Fresh-faced 20-year-old hacker, Hamed Al-Khabaz, attempted to warn school administrators about a vulnerability he discovered in his school's network while working on a mobile app, but instead got accused by Dawson College's software company of a pre-meditated cyber attack. After meeting with administrators, he continued to test whether the school had actually had closed the privacy loophole and was expelled.

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