<p>What????
At What Time Did This Happen???????</p>
<p>earlier today. you're lucky you didn't have the opportunity to find out how, as it could jeapordize your potential acceptance.</p>
<p>It isn't going to jeopardize anyone's chances. No, I did not see it. It's definitely a bit shady, but they didn't actually hack or do anything illegal, they just got very (un)lucky.</p>
<p>skinnyfists, I disagree. It is quite possible that cornell will take some action regarding this.</p>
<p>While they didn't explicitly hack, they did use unfair means to gain their decision. It's up in the air what will happen, and it could go either way. One saving grace for applicants is that for students already logged into the self service, they just had to click the link. there was no "warning" of an official log in page that this was something they shouldn't be doing for students who already had been logged in from another browser window casually.</p>
<p>for this reason it is unfair for cornell to reject the students who did unfairly gain access to their decisions. also, cornell is a bit at fault for using such an unsecure system. unless they can differentiate which students were logged in already in another browser window (which i doubt they can), then they can't make the distinction and shouldn't fairly reject students who saw their decision.</p>
<p>It is useless arguing over whether they hacked or not. There is precedent for this. The exact same thing happened last year in the MBA scandal. Some universities chose not to revoke admission while others did.</p>
<p>in another words.. we're all probably going to be fine! :D</p>
<p>sparticus, they have logs of the exact files you downloaded (IE the decision page) and your IP.</p>
<p>thatindiandude, the actual self-service site just doesn't link the decisions [yet].</p>
<p>And no, this is nothing like the Harvard hack. All someone did here is figure out the name of the page where decisions have already been posted on Cornell's server. No one posted instructions on how to "hack" the system...it was just a link. Whether someone else illegally made that page public is anyone's guess, but no one here did anything that even closely resembles the Harvard hack.</p>
<p>I understand they have logs of the exact files, but i'm saying will they be able to tell if you logged in with the intent to view your decision versus if you were already logged in for legitimate reasons and then didn't have to log in and viewed your decision just by clicking the link (i.e. without the "warning" of seeing the official log-in page)?</p>
<p>what was the process of the harvard hack? what did the regular applicants do? and what did the first hacker do?</p>
<p>it was sumthing crazy that basically involved going through the source code to find some id and then changing one of those very long urls to include the id along with the student id</p>
<p>see.... we're all going to be fine.</p>
<p>I think people are just over-reacting and over-analysing the situation here.</p>
<p>thanks. OK so this is not like the harvard hack, and is definitely more innocent, but still is shady. I wouldn't rule out a possible negative response by cornell, although having discussed all the things we have discussed so far (the nature of the link/the possibility of not even having to log in due to the selfservice site being open ahead of time for some users) make the liklihood of such a response low IMO.</p>
<p>I think what Cornell will do tommorow once they find out what is going on; they will probably disable the link to prevent this from happening more, and then issue a warning/message in the admissions site.</p>
<p>I am still calling tommorow ASAP though.</p>
<p>"maybe all the ppl who didn't get decisions are people applying to CALS with TWO majors...(one if they aren't accepted into their first?)"</p>
<p>is this true? (not that it matters ;))</p>
<p>Ah..I missed this....
In fact, I missed the last two months of CC Cornell University...^-^
To say the least, I'm not stressing at all...haha..perhaps it'll start now...</p>
<p>Although a part of me wishes that I had "accidentally" chanced upon the link earlier today, I know I would have regretted it after reading all these threads O_o..I hate how this has made so many students stress even more...what's done's been done. If you were just innocently clicking it b/c it was there, there's no harm as long as Cornell knows it was innocent if they do decide to take action..</p>
<p>So...breathe in, breathe out...there's only 2 days or so left right? Then you'll know for sure..</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn't mind being rejected, having experienced a couple of traumatic events the last few months that'll alter my future..those I wouldn't want to explain if I get deferred..</p>
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<p>That is EXACTLY what the Harvard hack was.</p>
<p>If action was taken by Cornell (probably less than a 50% chance), I would guess that it would just change those who were accepted to deferred so it could have time to figure out how it wanted to deal with the situation.</p>
<p>I'll just explain what the Harvard/Stanford "hack" was since some don't know. A poster on a messageboard told everyone to go to where the decisions would be posted in the future and then just add in their ID number that they had been given a while ago into the http:// address bar at the top.</p>
<p>***** that's like what happened here! Gah. Supposedly pulling an all-nighter to study for a final, but really I'm just waiting until 5 so I can call Cornell's admissions offices... =( </p>
<p>Getting some studying done though. =)</p>
<p>isnt that different from the link some of us clicked? they had to enter their id number and change the address bar and what not. we read a post that said good luck! click this! and we did and this is what we found out. i think the harvard "hack" is different from what happened to some of us at CC.</p>
<p>i agree. STOP GOING INSANE!</p>