Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
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Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
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Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#2Misleading headline, particularly the quotes. In this article no school said any such thing, only the author in creating an analogy.
Synopsis: Business schools outsource their student application web app, said web app has bug that allows students to change GET parameters and see their acceptance status early. Exploit is posted to BusinessWeek forums, and at least some of those students who tried the hack were denied admission to Harvard.
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#3Misleading headline, particularly the quotes. In this article no school said any such thing, only the author in creating an analogy. Synopsis: Business schools outsource their student application web app, said web app has bug that allows students to change GET parameters and see their acceptance status early. Exploit is posted to BusinessWeek forums, and at least some of those students who tried the hack were denied…
Harvard != MIT
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#4Top-tier schools already admit students based on a lot of fairly arbitrary criteria, so it doesn't seem like a very big deal to add "does not tinker with school-related web applications" onto the Harvard list.
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#5Top-tier schools already admit students based on a lot of fairly arbitrary criteria, so it doesn't seem like a very big deal to add "does not tinker with school-related web applications" onto the Harvard list.
That is particularly arbitrary considering how many HBS grads were discovered to have been involved in finance scams recently.
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#6Slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/2341213&tid=...
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#7"Instead of students studying Literature, Art, History, and Science they would be going through the motions of a scholar while occupying their minds with things that formerly had been learned at a desk as an apprentice in a dreary Victorian counting house."
Wow, that may be the best description of the concerns of the MBA I've ever read.
I have my MBA and, to this day, I still don't know how I feel about it. Sure, it covered a lot of valuable theory and it's opened doors, but then again I often wonder if the time would have been better spent in industry, honing my skills in the trenches.
The #1 quote I remember from one of my professors, "A degree in business is a degree in nothing."
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#8Misleading headline, particularly the quotes. In this article no school said any such thing, only the author in creating an analogy. Synopsis: Business schools outsource their student application web app, said web app has bug that allows students to change GET parameters and see their acceptance status early. Exploit is posted to BusinessWeek forums, and at least some of those students who tried the hack were denied…
Article definitely did not live up to its title. Author definitely got some eyeballs though....and eyeballs == money?
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#9Misleading headline, particularly the quotes. In this article no school said any such thing, only the author in creating an analogy. Synopsis: Business schools outsource their student application web app, said web app has bug that allows students to change GET parameters and see their acceptance status early. Exploit is posted to BusinessWeek forums, and at least some of those students who tried the hack were denied…
Harvard != MIT
The students were denied admission to Harvard. MIT came up because the author supervised MIT students creating an application with similar requirements.
Re: Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)
#10I wonder how ApplyYourself found out which students took a peek? Were they dumb enough not to implement access at the Gatekeeper level but smart enough to some how keep a track, if someone did?