Google Indexes SSN and Test Scores

“The Social Security numbers and test scores of 619 students at public schools in Catawba County, N.C., were available online via Google’s search engine until Friday, when the company complied with a local court order to delete all information about that county’s board of education from its servers.

According to sources, a student may have stored a username/password in a link in the form of a GET url that included a nonexpiring sessionid. The school apparently was unaware that a GET statement worked the same on their software as a POST. ”

http://www.forbes.com/2006/06/26/search-school-privacy_cx_rr_0626google_print.html

I read a Daily WTF about this once, I laughed then, not so funny for the web programmer who did the schools application

Written by Tim on June 26th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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My Home Page and Mutual Funds

I’ve been trying to find a new default home page for all of my computers. There are a ton of really interesting ones out there. I am putting together a nice list but for now I plan on rolling my own for the time being. One thing I had to have was stock quotes. I found some php to do it but what about charts? Well, I was poking around Yahoo finance the other day and noticed their charts accepts querystring parameters so you can put the parameters in a img tag and bingo..I now have stock charts on my site

Here are my current mutual funds I have invested.
OPPAX

SMVAX

DNLDX

FRBSX

JARTX

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