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Tic-toc, tic-toc, Harvard Web Repair Team…

by Maureen O'Connor | February 19, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Yesterday, an internet rogue calling himself "kaboom73" (and let's be honest, it's pretty much always a "him") hacked the website of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. First reported on Torrent Freak, then picked up by the Crimson, the security breach has been known since at least 8PM yesterday. And the GSAS website is still down! Now begins the waiting game as America's Bestest University scrambles to recover from the single-handed hack of some random dude on a laptop somewhere. Just how long will it take 1000 monkeys at 1000 computers to churn out a new GSAS website, you ask? Well, here's your handy-dandy Harvard Hack Repair Clock, measuring time elapsed the earliest public knowledge of the breach:

I totally forgot to update this when the website came back up. It was like 70 hours or something, though.

Feel free to play the Jeopardy theme song in your head while you wait.

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6 Responses to “Tic-toc, tic-toc, Harvard Web Repair Team…”

TKB Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
omg wuuuut a sexist!!!!11

womyn can be haxx0rz 2 holy karp
what a joke Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Aaahahaha!! Harvard had it coming, what a bunch of fucking idiots. My sister goes there and says it’s like a community college that gives a lot of work.
Y '09 Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
America’s Best[est] University? Hardly.
Green '09 Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Yes, we all know that title is reserved for Princeton.
Uncle Toby Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Easy, Y ‘09. True as it may be, I’d be a little less outspoken. Yale just looks… well, far from classy when, after bragging about being the Bestest University over Hahvahd, Princeton quietly and without fanfare becomes the Bestester University. I’m all for change in that regard and personally think it’s on the way, but in the meantime let’s relax until Yale wins at least 1 Ivy Title this year and the top US Bullshi… I mean, US News and World Report spot.
ViolentQuaker Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
At least Yale is run by a man.

What Penn lacks in quality it makes up for in quantity, and a herd of ironically-named Quakers could beat the crap out of Yale and Princeton combined FTW