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editing a URL = hacking

Wow. Sloanies are even dumber than I thought.

According to this post over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Sloan has decided to deny admissions to several people who did nothing more than edit a URL provided to them by the admissions department, discovering in the process that their admissions letter had already been posted to the webserver and reading same.

Sloan claims that they "hacked in" to their files in order to view their admissions status; meanwhile the fucking morons made the admissions letters publicly available on their webserver.

This goes to show you that stupid people should not be permitted to be aware of the existence, let alone in any way have a hand in the operation, of computers.

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hippo wrote

yeah in the articles in the tech and the globe never mention how they "hacked" in. they should be blaming the company that
handles the web application process

repak wrote

The thing that chaps my ass is that by the time it got to the point where ApplyYourself.com was going through web server logs to finger the people who'd "hacked" them, they MUST have known exactly what was going on and that it was their fault. That they failed to report same to their clients is ridiculous.

"Yeah, they hacked us. HACKERS!"

Aside: "Whew... handled that one well."

-repak

Gautham wrote

Fucking Sloan
Sloan seems like it's full of a bunch of dumbasses. Brian Manley was showing us one of the assignments for his "graduate" level information technology class. It involved using FrontPage to create a web survey. Apparently they were also forbidden from using anything but FrontPage to complete the assignment. It's like something straight out of the curriculum of a backwater community college.

ling chi shang shui fang mei wrote

HAKKED BY CHINEES
deeefeeeeet!

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