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]]> By: Jerod Ewert http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/comment-page-1/#comment-9518 Jerod Ewert Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:58:53 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/#comment-9518 Ultimately your opinion on this case rests on this: Was security reasonable to make students aware that this was not okay? The internet generation sees this level of security as pitiful, nonexistent. If information is this easy to access, it is essentially public. Older people are unfamiliar with the technology and assume that modifying a url is a significant effort on the part of the 'hacker' and so the student should have known that this information was privileged. Ultimately your opinion on this case rests on this:
Was security reasonable to make students aware that this was not okay?

The internet generation sees this level of security as pitiful, nonexistent. If information is this easy to access, it is essentially public.

Older people are unfamiliar with the technology and assume that modifying a url is a significant effort on the part of the ‘hacker’
and so the student should have known that this information was privileged.

]]> By: Debra Bradley http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/comment-page-1/#comment-8999 Debra Bradley Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:30:35 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/#comment-8999 The 119th should have followed compliance and waited for a letter. This was the procedures known by all. Ultimately, ethical dilemmas always require choices, and often in an ethical dilemma refraining from action is itself a moral decision. Indeed, in some moral dilemmas one must choose whether to disobey a particular prohibition, such as a law, when compliance results in immoral consequences. In this case, not acting is obeying the law, but the result is morally reprehensible. The 119th should have followed compliance and waited for a letter. This was the procedures known by all. Ultimately, ethical dilemmas always require choices, and often in an ethical dilemma refraining from action is itself a moral decision. Indeed, in some moral dilemmas one must choose whether to disobey a particular prohibition, such as a law, when compliance results in immoral consequences. In this case, not acting is obeying the law, but the result is morally reprehensible.

]]> By: Trevor http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/comment-page-1/#comment-8009 Trevor Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:04:51 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/#comment-8009 Why? Why wouldn't this information be available to the person it pertains to most? Why isn't the entire process more transparent? Perhaps it has ethical issues of its own. These students did not do anything unethical. They were given an opportunity to access information about themselves and took it. The reason they were rejected is not because they seemed to lack integrity, but rather because the Universities could not afford to admit them. They could not afford to be perceived as condoning anything unethical. Its unfortunate, but the court of public opinion forced their hand. The entire case may seem like ethics, but it smells a lot more like politics. Why? Why wouldn’t this information be available to the person it pertains to most? Why isn’t the entire process more transparent? Perhaps it has ethical issues of its own. These students did not do anything unethical. They were given an opportunity to access information about themselves and took it. The reason they were rejected is not because they seemed to lack integrity, but rather because the Universities could not afford to admit them. They could not afford to be perceived as condoning anything unethical. Its unfortunate, but the court of public opinion forced their hand. The entire case may seem like ethics, but it smells a lot more like politics.

]]> By: Kurt Piper http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Kurt Piper Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/#comment-1418 You will get a letter in due process. There will always be housing. As to your statement of "making students wait". If you rerally want to attend the universtiy, you will wait. "The world we live in" does not NEED to have this information readily availble. The classes aren't going to magically start any sooner than anticipated. The syllabus will still have the same criteria. School will start on time. There will be time to respond to the school and notify them of your choice. Even if you have to wait to find out. Hacking into a system to find out is still "hacking". There is no line to draw. It is unethical. Thus, I applaud the decision that was made. This world NEEDS ethical behavior NOT speedy results. You will get a letter in due process. There will always be housing.
As to your statement of “making students wait”. If you rerally want to attend the universtiy, you will wait. “The world we live in” does not NEED to have this information readily availble. The classes aren’t going to magically start any sooner than anticipated. The syllabus will still have the same criteria. School will start on time. There will be time to respond to the school and notify them of your choice. Even if you have to wait to find out.
Hacking into a system to find out is still “hacking”. There is no line to draw. It is unethical. Thus, I applaud the decision that was made. This world NEEDS ethical behavior NOT speedy results.

]]> By: salary cap http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/comment-page-1/#comment-26 salary cap Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:24:13 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/case-studies/hacking-into-harvard/#comment-26 Why would knowing if you are accepted or not give you an advantage other than you can get an early start in finding housing? Why would this information not be readily available to the student anyways? The sooner they know, the sooner they can make a decision, right? In the world that we live in, information flows at a tremendous rate compred to just ten years ago. Making students wait on their status so you can "mail" them a letter is so last century. Typical institutional higher learning in America. This is one of the reasons that America is falling behind in the technology market. Why would knowing if you are accepted or not give you an advantage other than you can get an early start in finding housing? Why would this information not be readily available to the student anyways? The sooner they know, the sooner they can make a decision, right? In the world that we live in, information flows at a tremendous rate compred to just ten years ago. Making students wait on their status so you can “mail” them a letter is so last century. Typical institutional higher learning in America. This is one of the reasons that America is falling behind in the technology market.

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