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Hackers send crass fake email to UPenn alumni, students: ‘We have terrible security practices’
PennLive ^
| 10/31/2025
| Jenna Wise
Posted on 10/31/2025 1:29:36 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A mass email sent Friday to the University of Pennsylvania community called the Ivy League school an “elitist institution” with terrible security practices, according to a copy of the email shared with PennLive.
The email, sent on Penn Graduate School of Education (GSE) letterhead, also included expletives and a slur, and said UPenn “love[s] breaking federal laws.”
“We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits,” the email reads in part.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
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posted on
10/31/2025 1:47:12 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
To: Kid Shelleen; Albion Wilde
“We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits,” Describes almost every institution of higher education
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posted on
10/31/2025 1:48:30 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
To: All
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posted on
10/31/2025 1:56:19 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen; lightman
There is a short poll at the site. It could use some love.
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posted on
10/31/2025 2:20:39 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(“They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi; they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.”)
To: dynachrome
Added my votes.
BTW PennLive does not block you from voting early and often.
FReep that poll!
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posted on
10/31/2025 2:36:06 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
To: dynachrome
I voted. I looked at the results and they are not surprising for that site.
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posted on
11/01/2025 2:30:43 AM PDT
by
quilterdebbie
(We will endeavor to persevere!)
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