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Student web service in question: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student/swagger/index.html

FERPA was probably a big factor in UW’s initial response to ask that the site be taken down. Institutions are all about CYA now.

The bit about blackmail seems a bit far fetched. I’d like to see the correspondence between UW and this individual. The entire story is certainly plausible but as other have pointed out, there are a number of inconsistencies.



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