ivy league shenanigans

Not to take away anything from the immorality of what happened. But, there's a problem with this picture. We know that a Princeton recruiter hacked into Yale's web site to find out whether or not certain students who applied at both schools were accepted. If Yale had instituted a password protection system for the information, it wouldn't have been so easy for the Princeton Associate Dean to do. More details have followed, including the news that the acceptance notices of Lauren Bush and Ara Parseghian, grandson of the Notre Dame University football coach, were amongst those viewed. The Princeton admissions officer has admitted entering the site, and claims that he was testing its security. (No news from either article as to whether Princeton has an online admissions acceptance notice database, and whether it might or might not be password protected.) Using name, date of birth, and social security number as the keys to a "secured" system is just not a good idea.