MPAA Toolkit Leaves Schools Vulnerable
Security Fix is reporting that the Motion Picture Association of America, like the RIAA, is enlisting the support of colleges and universities to combat pirated movies. Unfortunately for the schools, the tools provided by MPAA leave their networks vulnerable to data leaks
What we found was that depending on how a university's network is set up, installing and using the MPAA tool in its default configuration could expose to the entire Internet all of the traffic flowing across the school's network.
Not much of a way to treat an institution that is doing you a favor.
I argued in Note To Music Industry: Colleges Are Not Your Private Police that schools shouldn't be put in the position to police their students for third parties. What is true for the recording industry group RIAA is true for MPAA.
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