“Congrats on using Gmail for your Princeton email,” Dan Li ’11 wrote in the hundreds of e-mails he sent out over the last few days to students who forward e-mails from their Princeton accounts to their Gmail e-mail addresses. “If you’re creeped out because I know your Gmail address, read on.”
The e-mails included personal details about each student including their names, e-mail and mailing addresses, dorm room addresses and student identification numbers, which, he said, were publicly accessible through the University’s web-based directory.
Li said he sent the e-mails in an effort to raise awareness about a perceived security breach in the University’s Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server that could allow anyone outside the community to access the personal information about students that Li included in his e-mails.
By sending out the e-mails, Li wrote on his blog, he hoped “to illustrate (by way of exaggeration) the kinds of malicious things one can do with this data.”
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