Dawson student who exposed security flaw offered job, scholarship by Skytech

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MONTREAL —  He’s been called a criminal, a liar, a hacker and a thief.

He was kicked out of school and saw his academic record go up in smoke last fall, but now it appears Ahmed Al-Khabaz will have the last laugh.

The 20-year-old computer science student was expelled from Dawson College in November after stumbling upon a potentially disastrous security flaw in the school’s computer system. Al-Khabaz was working on a mobile application for Dawson’s website when he discovered a weakness that could have jeopardized the personal information of more than 250,000 students.

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