<p>of what happened to student who used a similar "hack" a few years ago?</p>
<p>In March/April 2005, students used a "hack" to learn the admissions decisions of MBA programs at Harvard, MIT, Duke and Stanford among others. When the schools became aware that students had accessed the admissions decisions before they were supposed to be available, they were able to trace which accounts had been accessed early.</p>
<p>The schools revoked the admissions of students who had used the "hack" on the grounds that it constituted a breach of ethical standards.</p>
<p>I wonder what ACT would do if it caught on to students accessing its site before scores are supposed to be available?</p>
<p>Would ACT notify the colleges that are being sent scores? Would ACT notify students high schools?</p>
<p>nothing is going to happen. if the ACT tries to do something about it they will just embarrass themselves. anyway, the students looking at their scores early are the same ones that fill the ACT coffers by retaking the test a bunch of times.</p>
<p>ACT most likely knows and doesn't care. Really, what's the harm of some high school kids getting their scores a few days early? The glich has been there for a while, and all ACT would have to do to find out is google ACT cheat/hack and this site comes up. It's a minor issue, really.</p>
<p>I worry for you guys that it will be treated just like the elite MBA programs did--they considered accessing the scores before they were publicly available to be a breach of ethics, and rescinded/revoked the acceptances of all the students who unethically accessed the admission decision site before it was supposed to be available. The MBA students didn't do anything to change the admissions decisions--all they did was access them as you guys are doing here.</p>
<p>Yeah, the MBA students literally hacked the system. As in, they had to modify or reprogram the system in order to gain access. By viewing a public link on the ACT site, we're doing no such thing.</p>
<p>What we're doing is merely using a glitch of the website, we aren't actually doing any hardcore hacking. Besides, what does this have to do with ethics anyway -.-? How does wanting to know our scores a bit early make us immoral?</p>
<p>There is a huge difference between hacking into a school system and entering a address. We still enter our own name and password. We don't have to have any knowledge to do it and we don't encounter any barriers that try to stop us. It's no different than how I click "next" in my online english class to view next weeks discussion board topic that is meant to be released a few days later.</p>
<p>we're not going to get in trouble.
1) alot of people have done this before, and they didnt get in trouble right?
2) It's not a hack. Hacking is like using software to illegally get in a system.
3) That was a way more serious case.
Not gonna do us harm/</p>
<p>A member named goodkarma called ACT and told them everything and they said that they indeed can check who saw the score reports early and were very serious about it. You guys are in denial...</p>
<p>^^assuming that is true, stone_cutter, it just shows that the ACT corp does not care. If they did care, they could easily program their servers to lock everyone out until whatever day and time that they choose. But, since they fail to secure their own servers, hmmmmmmm.</p>
<p>Stone_cutter is just trying to scare everybody. The ACT "hack" is nothing more than an unintentional Easter Egg in the website's programing. There is nothing illegal being done as we are not inserting code or breaching vulnerabilities of the programing. Ethically its up to you. Honestly I see nothing wrong with being able to see my score two days before most kids, its not like me seeing my score will affect some other kid's score.</p>
<p>oh noes gais, we all gonna get in twubble from the big bad ACT corporation! they found out we were using super secret h4x0r tr1ck5 to get into their systemz! im burnin ma hard drivez, they'll never prove anything!</p>