Posts Tagged ‘security’

Library Security Sucks

Friday, May 9th, 2008

No, I am not going to tell you how to do this.

I have recently discovered that the library security at Lincoln can be easily defeated using nothing more than a simple, freely available online tool. This allows you to enter the library simply by knowing a valid Student ID number (All undergraduate student email addresses begin with these), and check books back in which aren’t actually there.

This is not good.

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Lincoln’s Security Policies Are Empty!

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

I’d like to start with a genuine quote from the University of Lincoln’s Public Security Policy, available on the university’s internal Portal system under the first entry for a search on “security policy”:

The University has an obligation to balance these 2 requirements. Occassionally these requirements will conflict…..academic freedom…. blah

To which my only reply can be “dude”. It appears that the only publicly accessible version of the Public Security Policy is a draft.

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