Harvard Business School: Hacking = Backspac... - Philip Greenspun

Too funny. Read it all.

Good grief, I backspace URLs all the time. There is no assumed right of privacy in a public, err, space.

What is HBS's real motive? Price fixing:

Now all the curious applicants, having edited their URLs, are being denied admission to Harvard and, due to the fact that universities form cartels to fix tuition prices and other policies, presumably to the other B-schools as well.

Since economists from Adam Smith on up (down?) uniformly agree on the evils of monopoly pricing, here's more evidence that economists probably do not contribute to corruption of our youth. To be fair and balanced, though, I should add that Harvard's president is an economist.