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Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early
- dewey 3y agoHope for him that it's not just one variant of the payload that gets hidden / shown based on the backend response.
- freedomben 3y agohaha right, I hope he checked to see if there is also a rejection notice in a p tag somewhere, with logic that displays the correct one based on a boolean from the backend
- branon 3y agoKnows about inspect element but doesn't know how to take a screenshot?
- libraryatnight 3y agoAt least he didn't put the monitor face down on a scanner. That was the greatest "screenshot" I'd ever received.
- frou_dh 3y agoAre you not familiar with photography as a way to document moments in life?
- formerly_proven 3y agoCFAA charges being filed as we speak.
- booleandilemma 3y agoHe's in incognito mode, they'll never get him!
- alasdair_ 3y agoHarvard had a similar bug - you could modify the url to find out if you had entry. They found out and revoked admission from all students who used the url on ethics violations.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago...how is that an ethics violation?
- xvector 3y agoIt isn't, Harvard is just virtue signaling. Their admissions have always been fucked up. This is the same university that treats Asians as third-class candidates and openly defies the Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action.
- flowerlad 3y agoBecause otherwise, they will have to admit they messed up. Easier to blame it on the kids.
- andy99 3y agoRemember that whole thing where a government claimed that "view source" was hacking to cover for their design that sent personal information out. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-html-code-is-not-illegal-or-hacking-prof-tells-missouri-gov/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...
- andy99 3y agoPretty sad if true.
- CPLX 3y agoAm going to need a source for a claim like that.
- trostaft 3y agoI think this is what the top level poster is talking about? But this was 18 years ago. Maybe there was a more recent version https://www.computerworld.com/article/2568748/harvard-rejects-business-school-applicants-who-hacked-site.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2568748/harvard-reject...
- yuppie_scum 3y agoSupreme in the bookmark bar? Cringe
- flutas 3y agoDon't forget the sneaker raffle link.
- backspace_ 3y agoSo, maybe the title should of said "typical tech bro checking ..." instead?
- tednjrdjyrr 3y ago[dead]
- rounakdatta 3y ago"Typical cs dude" happens to be the subset of "Typical techbro", so expected, lol.
- backspace_ 3y agoI wonder if people feel attacked by reading "Tech Bro"
- colesantiago 3y agoWhat's wrong with this? What would you prefer to see in the bookmarks bar instead?
- andy99 3y agoWhen I was in university we had a page you could go to and see your grades which were released after a certain date. It also showed your cumulative GPA to two decimal places which oddly was not embargoed so, you could plausibly back-solve to figure out what your grades were. In my case I thought I had failed a class somehow because my GPA took a hit, turns out they had mistakenly left me registered class I withdrew from, which I cleared up.
- thechao 3y agoThis used to be a nightmare, for me. My dad still has this nightmare; he's 81. So... that's probably not trauma, right?
- andy99 3y agoI graduated 20 years ago and I still regularly dream that it's the end of the semester and there's a course I had that I forgot to attend and need to go write the exam.
- in3d 3y agoIt’s a very common dream: https://www.newsweek.com/dream-about-being-unprepared-exam-not-studied-test-recurring-dreams-explained-1717439 https://www.newsweek.com/dream-about-being-unprepared-exam-n..., https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/youre-at-the-final-exam-and-never-attended-class-its-that-dream-again/2016/09/19/01255a6c-792f-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/youre...
- HankB99 3y agoI really wish you hadn't said that. I had moved on. More recently I'm wandering campus trying to find my next class.
- Jcampuzano2 3y agoSimilarly graduated 10 years ago now. I still with regularity have bad dreams of exams and the anxiety of failing an exam that I had back then as well. It doesn't help that at the time I was actually on the brink of failing some classes in my final year so I think it has just amplified the severity of the dreams I get.
- greatpostman 3y agoIn college I found all the CS final exams in a hidden folder structure on the urls
- xeromal 3y agoIt would be funny if both scenarios were present in the HTML and the decision decided which text showed up at the proper time.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoBack 20-ish years ago when NIS+ was used to federate ssh logins on multiple *NIX clusters at some CS department that shall remain nameless: getent passwd | awk | johntheripper Say "hello" to trivial plaintext passwords of 6 tenured profs, a dozen associate profs, and 30+ students in a few minutes and without rainbow tables. (There was no ill-intent involved and the unfortunate parties were notified indirectly.) The flaw was giving everyone access to unsalted crypt password hashes. Exploring systems today would likely result in an instant Aaron Swartz-style crucifixion because of the cult of "zero tolerance" equals zero justice and zero proportionality because curiosity must be immediately murdered by the "culture of 'no'".