Student requested access to research data. And waited. And waited. And then hacked to get root
“They took me into an office, and they started the conversation by saying that they saw the logs and observed unauthorised root accesses to the workstation.”
“I confessed because what else was there to do? I told them that the other guy was not cooperating, and I did what I had to do.” At this point the meeting became a little tense: the PhD candidates mentioned that the would be well within their rights to report Wesley’s actions to the department. Wesley was saved when he mentioned the name of the senior student who’d been so slow to share data: it turned out one of the PhD candidates was a friend so was willing to let it slide.
But Wesley was given a terrible punishment: the job of defragging every PC in the lab, and few others for good measure.The pair of PhD candidates who bailed Wesley up were both awarded their doctorates, became professors, and are still in touch with Wesley.Have you been busted doing the wrong thing for the right reason?Share
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