February 8, 2008 - 12:00am
By Venus Wu
Last semester, as most Cornellians raced to submit their pre-enrollment choices online at 6:30 a.m. sharp, a few students might have already reached the finish line before the starting gun was fired.
According to a student who works at the Cornell Information Technologies help desk, at least 10 students in the past two years have successfully hacked into the Just The Facts desktop application to pre-enroll themselves in classes before the 6:30 a.m. starting time.
Most of the people interviewed — due to their roles in the incident or their positions at CIT — wished to remain anonymous.
The main source and two others who have graduated claim that the school was aware of the hacking. One alumnus expressed his surprise at the persistence of the JTF application’s loophole.
