Did I miss the hacking thread?

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<p>I guess I’m a week behind, but I have been following the computer hacking that several applicants to some top business schools used to try to determine if they had been admitted. Did I miss a thread on this?</p>

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<p>There was a thread about it on the Harvard board:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=39323[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=39323&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Personally I think it’s great. I think any school should want to weed out applicants who are given to mischief and circumventing the rules. Last year here on CC on the MIT board there was a thread where a bunch of kids were trading tips in an attempt to hack in and find out their admission decisions a few days early. I pointed out to them that MIT would know who they were, and that all colleges spent millions on computer security to keep hackers like them out. Did they really want to identify themselves as someone who was costing the school millions? They sneered at me and argued that their efforts were just the sort of technological cleverness that MIT values. My response was: Okay, good luck.</p>

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<p>MIT has joined CMU and Harvard in rejecting applicant-hackers. So much for valuing technological cleverness.</p>

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<p>I do wonder <em>what</em> they were thinking to hack in. I know that it is really hard not to peek, particularly when the answer is just weeks away–but still. Hacking in just shows that you are willing to do anything, ethical or no, to obtain what you want. </p>

<p>The more I read, the more disappointed I am that the students are trying to wiggle out of their actions. It certainly wasn’t an accident. The person that posted the code for the others should get double the punishment.</p>

<p>I wonder how many law suits will be filed over this?</p>