Exam result in Facebook before publication, tech error blamed

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Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 1:49 AM IST

Jnanasagar Naik, a city-based final year engineering student, claimed one of the websites selected by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) to host the results had not blocked the link while uploading the results yesterday evening or had not taken enough security measures to protect the results from public viewing.

The link was active for over an hour in the evening and the webpage was on public domain, Naik claimed, adding that he did not hack the website nor has done any crime by posting some information in the social networking site.

"Asked by a friend whose sister had appeared in the examination, I visited the website

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First Published: Jun 29 2012 | 12:05 AM IST

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