Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Calif. colleges

Re:Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Ca... by nobody9999 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:31AM (#43926416)

>Social engineering hacks are the primary hack. If you're not familiar with them, you aren't security conscious.

You didn't say that financial aid administrators were being "socially engineered. Nor did you say that they had their SIMs swapped. Rather, you said[0]:

  "Often issues such as this are the result of people involved in the verification process, being bribed or taking cash for approvals."

That might well be the case here. But unless you actually have even a shred of evidence (do you? if so, please provide it), you're painting thousands of people with the same broad brush.

>Do you imagine that university admissions employees are perfect, uncorruptible? Is this some weird, US political minefield?

I do not. But I also don't make completely unsupported accusations/attacks against random strangers as you did. Not a "political minefield" at all. You were just talking out of your ass and I called you on it. Full stop.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924650

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Re:Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Ca... by bbarnett on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:49AM (#43926595)

We are discussing, in this sub-thread, methods by which people masquerade as others, stealing funds, abusing resources, and so on. The post I replied to was musing, essentially, "How could this possibly happen!?"

My statement is entirely valid in this context.

Social engineering attacks are a well known method to hack, and masquerading as others is indeed a hack.

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