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Two students face rustication after exposing security flaws in Oxford University's computer network

Two Oxford students have been suspended after admitting gaining unauthorised access to the university's IT network.

Patrick Foster, 20, and Roger Waite, 21, claimed they had carried out the hack to expose security flaws. But on Friday a disciplinary hearing ruled that both should be 'rusticated', or suspended -- Foster until May 2005 and Waite until January 2005.

The pair's actions came to light in May when they wrote an article for The Oxford Student, a university newspaper, detailing their activities. They warned that using tools found through Google they had managed to view live CCTV footage, access information about the computer use of individual students, and see their email passwords.

Foster admitted seven charges -- two of using university facilities for unlawful activity, two of gaining unauthorised access to the network, two of violating users' privacy, and one charge of wasting staff time by engaging them in activity unrelated to study.

Waite pleaded guilty to four charges all related to the CCTV network -- conspiring to breach an IT network, using facilities for an unlawful activity, gaining unauthorised access, and wasting staff time.

There was no suggestion that either Foster or Waite had tried to cause any damage through the attack or achieve any financial gain.

The Oxford University proctors, who investigated the incident, are reported to have recommended that fines should be imposed. However, the panel of three Oxford fellows who conducted Friday's heading at the university's Court of Summary Jurisdiction decided to suspend the two students for what they deemed an attack on the university.

Foster, who is now the editor of The Oxford Student, has reportedly said that both he and Waite plan to appeal.

Source: ZDNET News


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I think that the punishment is way unbalanced with the acts they did.

They did:

a) No Damage to the Network
b) Made no Financial income from it

and yet, they have been suspended for almost the entire year...

Mabye a fine or restrictions to public computers.
But suspending them for this long.. rediculus


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