Odisha / Orrisa matric results on Facebook before publication, technical error cited

Odissa

Cuttack: A boy, who posted a part of the Odisha matriculation examination result on Facebook 12 hours before it was officially declared, on Thursday blamed the website vendor who hosted the results for 'unsound' technical practice.

Jnanasagar Naik, a city-based final year engineering student, claimed that 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 on Wednesday evening or had not taken enough security measures to protect the results from public viewing.

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

Asked by a friend whose sister had appeared in the examination, I visited the website 'www.bseorissa.in' last evening and found in one of its links the list of top 100 students in PDF format which I downloaded.

"As I am a former student of Ravenshaw Collegiate School and one of the students of the school bagged third position, I shared the Top Ten list with some of my former schoolmates in my Facebook account", he said, adding that he did not know how a section of media got the entire Top 100 list.

To prove his innocence, he visited the Board office in Cuttack on Thursday and gave his version to BSE President Satyakam Mishra in writing. Through Mishra, he urged the government to initiate an enquiry into the whole incident and clear his name from the unsavoury accusations.

A third party vendor hired by Odisha Computer Academy Center was hosting the results.

Friday, June 29, 2012 by deivam P Mohanraj · 0