Reefa Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Florida is teaching kids a hard lesson about computer security.Authorities in Pasco County recently locked up a 14-year-old for hacking… after he logged on to a school computer using a password his teacher typed in front of the whole class.It gets better. The password? It was this teacher’s last name. The student logged in, changed the wallpaper to a risquee image of two men kissing, and waited for his mark to spring the trap. Unfortunately, it was a sub who saw the pic and reported it to school administrators.Now, it’s not hard to see that there was a transgression here. Just because someone types his or her password in while you’re watching — and didn’t bother to spend a moment considering best security practices — doesn’t mean you’ve been given permission to use that password.Here’s a question, though: why is any network administrator allowing passwords this simple to be used in 2015? Last names? Holy crappy credentials, Batman, you might as well be using “password”, “god”, or “baseball”. For a first-time login, fine, log them in with something obvious… but force an immediate change, and have a real password policy set up on your server. Make people throw in a number or two. Maybe even a symbol!Not that it’s fair to place all the blame for the password fail on the IT staff. Even if this school’s network admin wasn’t in the mood to set up policies, I can’t imagine the teachers aren’t allowed to change their passwords on their own. Assuming they are, it’s insane that they wouldn’t update them. It’s not 1950 any more. Pranking the teacher doesn’t mean everyone puts in a set of false teeth like the kids in A Christmas Story did.To all you tech-savvy kids out there, take heed: law enforcement agencies have a very broad interpretation of what constitutes hacking, and some of them won’t think twice about hauling you off to a holding cell for what amounts to a harmless prank. They’ll even bust you if you’re too young to get in to a PG-13 movie.http://www.geek.com/news/florida-teen-arrested-for-changing-teachers-desktop-background-1620144/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallon Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 It is tempting to see minors, like a 14 year old hacker boy, as victim. And to hold their parents responsible. As is the law in much of Europe. Parents are no doubt required to pay off damages. Ridiculous Court drama is probably never far away, because people can make a living from Computer Crime and overdo it.Minor in Computer Crime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 the nsa should have offered this young lad a job :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigmatism Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 This was clearly a prank and anyone can see this. Jail time for this sort of thing is absurd. Seriously...sending kids to jail for a prank that hurt NO ONE...so stupid on many different levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 This was clearly a prank and anyone can see this. Jail time for this sort of thing is absurd. Seriously...sending kids to jail for a prank that hurt NO ONE...so stupid on many different levels.don't say this or Dmog will come and say that in china or north korea, he would have been send to a camp blablabla... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 This was clearly a prank and anyone can see this. Jail time for this sort of thing is absurd. Seriously...sending kids to jail for a prank that hurt NO ONE...so stupid on many different levels.There are no shortage of prisons, and the crime penalty must go up to compensate for the loss of profits from crime plummeting since the 90s.We must also trumpet every crime and school shooting 10X harder on the news to hide the fact that crime has plummeted since the 90s. No less than 1000 schools get shot up per day, anyone who disagrees is a crazed gun nut, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Every where I have worked if you got up you locked you computer...why didn't the teacher do this? Why wasn't she in trouble for leaving her computer open to anyone? Seems to me the blame should be shared. To put a 14 yr old in jail for changing background on her computer seems a waste of tax dollars. Changing her background without the computer being locked doesn't make him a hacker either. This is BS!Does anyone know what a hacker means? Seems ppl call anything anyone does as a hacker. This is not the definition of a hacker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Does anyone know what a hacker means? Seems ppl call anything anyone does as a hacker. This is not the definition of a hacker.I no i don't like to change the original title..See here..>>Security Sense: Hacking Ain’t Hacking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 They abuse their power too much.A simple "punishment" like cleaning or helping to clean a part of the school is already sufficient.This boy will be traumatized for sure, might as well hang him.Maybe this boy is first born.They like to taste the blood of first born child. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 They abuse their power too much.A simple "punishment" like cleaning or helping to clean a part of the school is already sufficient.This boy will be traumatized for sure, might as well hang him.Maybe this boy is first born.They like to taste the blood of first born child. :unsure:The schools are run by the criminally insane. The same who would strip search and slap drug charges on 12 year old girls for having Tylenol.This world in general makes me pretty sick, and I know if I ever have kids (never happening but hypothetically), I'm homeschooling before I let this corrupt festering disease of a system teach them how to be good slaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 my kid was in school in canada and for grade 9 and moves to the usa for grade 10...her first day of class the had to walk through a meta detector and two bomb threats were phoned in there was only one entrance opened to get in and out and two armed guards patrolled the halls as well as routine visits with police drug dogs...the next day she said good morning to the principle and he yelled at her for being out of line and speaking to him unless he himself initiated the conversion. he then hauled her into this office and threatened to send her home for a few days...she told him she was from canada and her high school has 9 entrances all were open ans there was no 12 foot high fence around the campus and that she could walk into the principals office any time and talk to him....this man then asked her the name of this school and looked it up on the internet to phone the school... and told her if she had lied he was going to expel her he was proven wrong in his assumption by the way and could not believe how free the schools were in canada ...what the hell is wrong with teachers and the education system there...also also at my youngest kids American school when she was down there a kid in her grade 5 class took a gun to school because he was mad at another kid and threatened him with it...so you see codyqx4 when it is warranted i can bash america too and as for home schooling... most kids that are home schooled have harder time in the real world when they are done education because they have very little contact with others and do not know how to fit in socially with others...studies have shown this to be true... research it...you cannot live in your own tiny little make believe world for ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 most kids that are home schooled have harder time in the real world when they are done education because they have very little contact with others and do not know how to fit in socially with others...studies have shown this to be true... research it...you cannot live in your own tiny little make believe world for everThat may be so. I won't argue that. But is it better to put them in an environment where paranoia is the norm? Where you are being taught by example to trust no one?Man! Talk about pressure. In my younger days the only pressure was the schools bullies :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 my kid was in school in canada and for grade 9 and moves to the usa for grade 10...her first day of class the had to walk through a meta detector and two bomb threats were phoned in there was only one entrance opened to get in and out and two armed guards patrolled the halls as well as routine visits with police drug dogs...the next day she said good morning to the principle and he yelled at her for being out of line and speaking to him unless he himself initiated the conversion. he then hauled her into this office and threatened to send her home for a few days...she told him she was from canada and her high school has 9 entrances all were open ans there was no 12 foot high fence around the campus and that she could walk into the principals office any time and talk to him....this man then asked her the name of this school and looked it up on the internet to phone the school... and told her if she had lied he was going to expel her he was proven wrong in his assumption by the way and could not believe how free the schools were in canada ...what the hell is wrong with teachers and the education system there...also also at my youngest kids American school when she was down there a kid in her grade 5 class took a gun to school because he was mad at another kid and threatened him with it...so you see codyqx4 when it is warranted i can bash america too and as for home schooling... most kids that are home schooled have harder time in the real world when they are done education because they have very little contact with others and do not know how to fit in socially with others...studies have shown this to be true... research it...you cannot live in your own tiny little make believe world for everHow many people are psychologically ruined by the current system, or passed through due to "No Child Left Behind"? Either system can, but is not guaranteed, to cause their own issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Nolo provided a quick link to the law in place...It Seems pretty broad...You decide...CHAPTER 815 COMPUTER-RELATED CRIMEShttp://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0815/titl0815.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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