more on Class Action Suit re: Online Admissions

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:59:42 -0500
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Subject: Class Action Suit re: Online Admissions


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Is there any cause for action here?  Obviously, the damages to the students
denied admission is enormous. (What is the Net Present Value of a Harvard B
School degree these days?)

So, does anyone have a case?  The guy whose wife checked for him seems like
a good candidate.  He didn't do anything, yet as a result of this company's
failure to implement reasonable security measures, his wife, who is probably
not a computer programmer, was able to follow some simple instructions from
a website to check his status.  Their security failure allowed someone else
to access the system costing him the value of that education.

If a creative lawyer can figure out a way to make a class out of this group
of people, it would be big money.



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