<p>Well if they are stupid enough to hack into such a simple thing as college admissions there is no telling what they would do in the business world to get actual money and fame. It says A LOT about their character.</p>
<p>You have no idea how nervous reading that article made me. What would I have done if I had had that opportunity. Probably without giving it a second thought I would have done it. I wouldn’t have stopped to think that it was illegal or wrong or anything. Jeez, you really have to think hard before you do stuff. If after getting the answer and telling all my friends, family, relatives, teachers, etc. and then being rejected?! Oh man, that would be terrible!</p>
<p>What if someone looked up someone elses info</p>
<p>Yeah what if they did and the admissions ppl rejected someone when in fact it was someone else who looked them up? that would be a royal a$$ pain.</p>
<p>That is so stupid.
why would anyone get involved with something illegal just to SEE if they get into the college?
they’re getting involved with illegal stuff, with their dream school, just to see the results early??</p>
<p>i mean, hacking and getting accepted is a different thing…but to know in advance…</p>
<p>As someone previously put, imagine telling your parents and friends that you had your acceptance pulled because you hacked the system!! Who else wants to take this one…</p>
<p>Ouch:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7841543[/url]”>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7841543</a></p>
<p>Imagine someone who “hacked” into the system and saw that they were accepted… and now know that they’ll never be going to Harvard.</p>
<p>Here’s another comment on the whole deal critical of the business schools:</p>
<p><a href=“http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08#a7726[/url]”>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08#a7726</a></p>
<p>So the “hacking” consisted basically of changing the url in your browser when you were logged in.</p>
<p>they were accepted and then rejected</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005030801010[/url]”>http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005030801010</a></p>
<p>That’s hilarious! That’s all they did?! I do that all the freaking time to snoop around and I don’t know S@#T about hacking. In no way does that even resemble hacking. Hacking takes … brains. That takes… a lack thereof. What a joke. Thank God I didn’t find out about it cause I would have probably done it without thinking twice. No way would I have thought I was “hacking into the system”. What old fogies to use the word “hack” for what they did!</p>
<p>From Xanatos’s dartmouth article: “Business school officials have noted that it is impossible to determine whether or not it was the applicant who accessed the information or merely someone using the applicant’s account, such as a parent.”</p>
<p>My parents don’t know anything about computers. But they are eager beavers and if they had been tech-savvy and had done that and my application had been rejected - I would be incredibly, unbelievably mad.</p>
<p>It certainly wasn’t a “hack” in the traditional sense. All it happened to be was a web application that had extremely poor security features.</p>
<p>It was as simple as clicking View->Source, finding your student number, and adding your number and a word to the URL, and bam, you have your decision in front of you.</p>
<p>The “hacker” probably didn’t even do any breaking in at all. He could have found someone who was already accepted and had the structure of the link of the decision page (maybe there was a school that already posted their decisions using that software), asked them what their URL looked like, and then used that to easily figure out how to see his own information.</p>
<p>*** not hacking at all.</p>
<p>with this new info i saw its faulty/inferior system’s fault</p>
<p>i bet most people on CC would do just that (tweaking URL’s or whatever)</p>
<p>definitely not “hacking”</p>