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Florida charged 14-year-old with felony hacking
Reuters / Pawel Kopczynski A 14-year-old middle school student is facing felony computer hacking charges after he admitted to accessing a teacher's computer during class without permission. If that wasn't bad enough, he then displayed an image of two men kissing. Domanik Green, an eighth grader at Paul R.

@papoanaya@identi.ca This isn't felony hacking. This is Brian dead security or rather a total lack of it. It akin to saying to an 8th grader. Here is a box of candies, here is the key to the box.. don't eat the candies. What do you think is going to happen. Then they don't ever bother to change the password after the first incident. The schools IT department should be charged not the kid.

Freemor at 2015-04-11T17:12:26Z

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I don't think he shared the link because he agrees with the school's mismanagement (both at the network level and at the school administration level).


I'm just glad that the tech lead at one of the high schools near me did not react that way when the teen son of a co-worker kept "exploring" the school's network. Instead, they made him an intern and taught him about their responsibilities to protect students and their information. That was ten or fifteen years ago, so who knows how they would react today, but they made the right choice back then.


They kept the kid out of jail, while teaching him some valuable lessons.

lnxwalt@microca.st at 2015-04-11T17:41:34Z

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Yes, I understood that.. Was reacting to the article not the Poster. To me this is more of the anyone that knows their way around a computer is dangerous and bad. It particullarly bothers me that the term "hacking" was even applied to this. Firstly I disagree with the use of the term hackingto describe what I'd call "malicious hacking". Secondly this kid didn't hack anything.. he was given the (from the sounds of it) publicly available password to an admin account and then just used that account. No exploits, no reversing of hashes or exfiltrating SQL databases, nothing that looks anything like "hacking". Just braindead security in the presence of inquistive teens.


Not like the exploiting a privledge escalation to modify the plain text admin accounts file to add an entry for myself like I did back on my Highschools PDP-11. What did I do with the admin privledge.. nothing. Was just a lot of fun knowing I had it. But that at least you could call "hacking".

Freemor at 2015-04-11T18:36:40Z

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