If you were on the admissions committee at Harvard Business School, would you consider it a plus or a minus if a candidate hacked in to a computer that stored admissions decisions to find out whether they had been admitted? How about if 100 students did it?
A misdemeanor violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(c) isn’t a great way to start off a business school career — unless you’re as famous as Martha Stewart, I suppose.
UPDATE: I’m not positive, but I think the headline of the article I linked to — “Harvard, Stanford, Duke computers hacked” — is inaccurate. As best I can tell, the university computers weren’t hacked. Rather, I think the problem was with a third-party service, ApplyYourself, that the universities all used. So I think the candidates hacked into ApplyYourself’s computer, not the computers at Harvard, Stanford, and Duke. It doesn’t make a difference legally, or at least won’t in most cases, but seems worth pointing out.
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