CU admission system insecure
Aspiring students of Chittagong University (CU) are frustrated at the automated admission system of university for failing to provide any security and privacy protection.
Admission seekers have complained that their pictures on the admit cards have been changed while The Daily Star found that anybody can see and open roll numbers of students.
In the admit card of Mohammed Ali Hasan, an admission seeker who applied to the university's E unit, a picture of a film star has been uploaded.
In the website of state-run mobile service provider Teletalk, anyone can open admit cards of B1 unit and E unit and if the card is without pictures any kind of picture can be uploaded.
However, university authorities and Teletalk denied any kind of technical faults in the system.
Talking to The Daily Star, SM Akbar Hossain, secretary of the admission committee, said someone might be sabotaging the system.
“We process admit cards of a large number of students but we have only received four to five complaints against the system,” he said.
ABM Mamun, senior officer of Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd, said they designed the system to be user-friendly so that students can use it without any problem.
“I assure you that our system is fully secure and this is a sabotage to defame the system,” he said.
An admission seeker preferring anonymity said downloading process of admit cards and the process of uploading pictures are not secure.
“As the roll numbers are in serial, anybody can see the admit card of another roll number and if it has no picture, any picture can be uploaded,” he said.
Akbar Hossain said they will review the system and fix any problem.
The admission process of CU including admission form selling and submitting is conducted by the Teletalk.
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