Indiana Student Hacks Emergency-Update Site

A student at Indiana University at Bloomington who took advantage of a computer-security flaw to post an unauthorized alert on the campus's emergency Web site was put on disciplinary probation last week after the university's Judicial Board found he had violated the student-conduct code.

The student, Ben Brodsky, said that as a winter storm advanced one night in January, he posted a notice to the campus-emergency site. The notice asked readers to "call up your congressman and suggest

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