Word: hacker
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...nation’s top business schools, including Harvard Business School (HBS), faced a nearly unprecedented ethical dilemma this past spring when dozens of prospective students, tipped off by an online hacker, tried to gain unauthorized access to a website detailing their admissions status...
Early on March 2, an anonymous hacker posted step-by-step instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum explaining how HBS applicants could attempt to peek at their admissions status a month early by logging in to their application and changing...
...know everyone is getting more and more anxious to check [the] status of their apps to HBS,” the hacker wrote. “So I looked around on their site and found...
Although in previous performances of the noted play, Turner says, the computer hacker is given a “dream-like” quality, drifting on and off of the stage, he and set designer Matthew J. Ferrante ’05 gave the character new life. This was accomplished by creating a personal space for Woods on the balcony, while “taking full advantage of the back box” for the rest of the players...
Above all, Turner hopes his revival of the play will get people thinking. Turner himself names the most poignant piece of dialogue to be when “the hacker mouths off a bunch of computer lingo and then says, ‘If you didn’t understand a word I said, [and] don’t go near it, it’ll do you in. A hint: learn it.’” It is an ethos that continues to be relevant as the technology continues to expand...