Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

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[crepuscularbrolly]

This is a funny way for me to learn that Wash U is no longer wustl.edu

 

[crepuscularbrolly]

Don't feel bad, my alma mater "graduated" to a newer .edu domain name as well.

I still remember in the early 1990's using the ftp site (didn't they also have a gopher server?) at ftp.wustl.edu

They probably had a gopher. IIRC, it was also on AFS. This was late 80s.