[ww-devel] [rt.webwork.maa.org #9598] Question Regarding My Webwork HW, including my entire name and college being posted to the internet without my permission

Arnold Pizer apizer at math.rochester.edu
Sun Feb 9 14:54:33 EST 2020


Also maybe there is a more secure way to serve PDF files than we are doing.

Arnie

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 8:48 PM mgage <gage at math.rochester.edu> wrote:

> This was on a TTU server.  And I expect you are right Arnie about the set
> up.
> Perhaps we should recommend a no-robots file as well.
>
> Take care,
>
> Mike
>
> On Feb 8, 2020, at 10:19 PM, Arnold Pizer <apizer at math.rochester.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I assume when the new server was set up, cron jobs to remove temporary
> files were not set up.  See
>  "Using Cron Jobs to remove temporary files" in
> http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Clean_Out_Temporary_Files
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__webwork.maa.org_wiki_Clean-5FOut-5FTemporary-5FFiles&d=DwMFaQ&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=C6Pt5AGtImanmAdcooarL-JZO8M5dSFPfs3VweYXYkE&m=5f5rqa1luO7vd88zzi7pwIZ5Jd6wUbZSt9L6UTRGcNI&s=jRXCdpwzh-o5w-8JDJ0vGvcmMjMtZ5gHgVAoe8Dsn9E&e=>
>
> Arnie
>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM mgage <gage at math.rochester.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Who is keeping track of notices like the one below at MAA? In my opinion
>> this is part of customer service.  Were you aware of the notice?
>> This message at least deserves investigation and a response.
>>
>> Longer term issue, you were going to send me a link to who ever at MAA is
>> overseeing customer
>> relations vis-a-vis webwork hosting so that we can start coordinating the
>> handling of issues such as this one.
>>
>>
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "NAME REMOVED via RT" 
> Subject: [rt.webwork.maa.org #9598] Question Regarding My Webwork HW, including my entire name and college being posted to the internet without my permission 
> Date: February 5, 2020 at 11:18:17 PM EST
> Reply-To: "rt@webwork.maa.org" 
> 
> 
> Wed Feb 05 23:18:16 2020: Request 9598 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED
>       Queue: General
>     Subject: Question Regarding My Webwork HW, including my entire name and college being posted to the internet without my permission
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>  Requestors: EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED
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> Ticket 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> TEXT DELETED I was on google and shocked that Webwork homework assignments I saved to my personal computer appeared in a PUBLIC google search.  I am flabbergasted and I have no idea how to remove them.  TEXT REMOVED What can be done to remove them from Google?
> 
> Thank you,
> NAME REMOVED
> 
>>
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