"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrified by what he’s found—including programs that didn’t use the secure https protocol or that don’t hide passwords as users enter them. “Very straightforward technical problems, stuff that should be licked by businesses that have even a modest degree of sophistication, those are the mistakes that are being made right and left,” he says. “In 2015, this is almost tech malpractice.”"
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