Dawson College kicked out Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20-year-old computer-science student who discovered a coding problem in a computer system commonly used at vocational colleges in Quebec. The flaw could have allowed personal data for 250,000 students to be hacked. Critics of the college said it had acted to cover up the security lapse and to protect the business that designed the computer system. The college declined to comment.
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