, 2005-03-21
The recent security breach that exposed an individual's application status at top business schools raises moral and ethical questions about cyberspace.
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Computer Ethics, From the Grandstands -- Inappropriate Repsonses to Inappropriate URLs
2005-03-25
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Computer Ethics, From the Grandstands
2005-03-27
Not Anonymous. My IP is in the logs and traceable to me.
Not Anonymous. My IP is in the logs and traceable to me.
Sounds a bit more like "the results have been posted early, but are not linked in yet" and "see if your results have been posted early".
Hardly a hack - more the use of an established technique (available to anyone with the slightest understanding of how the web works) for navigating poorly constructed websites. As someone pointed out in another forum, the address bar is part of the web's user interface.
It sounds to me like clueless non-technical people in Harvard's admissions department inappropriately labelling something as a hack, and thought of a good way of deflecting any bad press. Unfortunately (because most people suspend critical thought when a computer related topic comes up) it may have worked.
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