From that followup article:
Richard Filion, the director general of Dawson College, did not respond to requests for an interview, but told CBC Radio that “We have to abide by this legal requirement not to divulge any personal information of any student. The story that has been reported by many media today … was relying on an incomplete version of what had happened and what had led the college to make such a decision. The other side of the story is related to facts that we cannot divulge.”
I'm so sick of this cowardly lying legal bullshit.
So basically they are saying: You only know half the story, and if we could tell you the other half you'd understand why we did what we did. But we're not going to tell you because we want to protect the rights of the person we expelled.
But if the reason they weren't telling us the second half of the story was to protect the kid, they would let HIM decide if he wants the information released.
It's typical cowardly ass-covering behavior: insist there are some special secret facts that justify what they did and find some way to stall releasing it until the attention dies down.
If you kick some kid out of college for something like this, you need to be prepared to give him the written justification for why you've done so, so that he can properly defend himself against the institutions.
And for those of you who are saying we need to look at it from system administration perspective.. I'm not saying what he did was right.. In fact I am all for throwing the book at people who are trying to
harm computer networks, or profit from stealing private information.. I understand how much hard painful work is involved in system administration and how much harm can be done by people trying to abuse and damage the system. The point here is that this was a young curious kid who by all accounts had no malicious intent at all and was merely curious about the system. Punishment was way out of proportion for the crime.
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