An embarrassing string of recent security breakdowns has prompted Ohio University to reorganize its computer-support services (The Chronicle, June 2). But one alumnus says the university should have known it was time for a housecleaning years ago.
In 2002, Jeremy Valeda, then the information-systems manager for the university’s Student Senate, broke into the campus computer system and dug up personal details about four members of the senate’s executive board. Mr. Valeda said he was just testing the campus network to see if it was secure enough to hold online elections, and he presented a report on the network’s vulnerability to student-government officials. But campus administrators reprimanded him, and the senate stripped him of his post.
"What I told them three years ago was going to happen is happening," Mr. Valeda told The Athens News.
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