Online college applications ought to be verified to ensure security

AFTER THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM in Jiaozhou, East China's Shandong province, a student stole the password for a classmate's online college application account and changed the college the classmate was applying to. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Fearing that a classmate who applied to the same university would pose a threat to his own application, a Shandong student stole the log-in details of his classmates' online application account and changed his classmate's choice of college.

In fact, many young people are yet to realize that it constitutes a serious crime to alter other people's college applications, and it is not uncommon for the college applications of students to be changed by someone else without their consent. But whoever does this, regardless of his or her intentions, should be held accountable, as it is against the law.