[polymath]

If the guy with all those felonies was good egnough at hacking in to the school network to change his grade and not get caught so many times, than why does he have all D's? Social problems? Trouble in the family? I don't know, something sounds like he was framed by someone. Tell me i'm paranoid.

Oh, and again, good one Delta.

[modi123_1]

polymath, on 26 Jun, 2008 - 07:35 PM, said:

If the guy with all those felonies was good egnough at hacking in to the school network to change his grade and not get caught so many times, than why does he have all D's? Social problems? Trouble in the family? I don't know, something sounds like he was framed by someone. Tell me i'm paranoid.

Oh, and again, good one Delta.

Yes, you are paranoid. The article does a good job spelling out what was happening. He was found by janitors after hours breaking in. This of course let us not ignore the fact that what he did, with respects to "hacking", was pretty amature. He probably installed backorfice 1.0, which only allowed him to open and close cd trays remotely. He had a teacher's password. Wow... just wow. Pretty much he's a giant bumblefuck. Pardon my Icelandic terms.

[polymath]

And you are saying that he got the teachers password by non-computer hacking means (no password crackin programs or sommat)?

[modi123_1]

polymath, on 27 Jun, 2008 - 10:07 AM, said:

And you are saying that he got the teachers password by non-computer hacking means (no password crackin programs or sommat)?

That's what I am saying.

[jacobjordan]

They did do a lot of bad things, but 38 years? Come on, people who are convicted of armed robbery get less that 38 years. Anyone else think that's a bit harsh?

[captainhampton]

RodgerB, on 19 Jun, 2008 - 03:00 PM, said:

I didn't read anything in this topic, but, Death Penalty.

Obviously, seems to be the only way

[Kirth]

WolfCoder, on 19 Jun, 2008 - 09:33 AM, said:

Who ARE these people!?

I'm geussing for mentaly retarted ones. Pregnancy pacts... EPIC FAIL! To me a baby is nothing moar than a bunch of problems..

[rgfirefly24]

about the hackers: It is entirly possible that they were given a password for one reason or another and used that to gain passwords from others. I know when i was working for my college i had access to an administrative password that worked on any computer on all 8 campuses. Using that password i could obtain the password of anyone from the president to the janitor. Here is the other thing. There was another incident like this featured on Real High School Stories or what ever that program is called where 2 seniors had placed a keylogger on thier science teachers computer and through that got remote access to the schools grading system. Over the course of thier run they changed at least 50 people's grades. They saw absolutly no jail time for it. I'm also going to point out one thing. The boys that were featured on the show were white. The boys in this story arnt. Don't you think that has just a wee itty itty <------------------------------------------------------------> bit to do with how harsh they were punished?

[jboy012000]

Hackers really wind me up same with people who write a virus and cause thausands of pounds/dollars in damage, they should do real time for stuff like this not just a few years.

I also think they should pay for damage they cause to peoples computers or company's servers and networks after all if these people were properly sentanced they would not do it in the first place and people would not need to spend so much money on anti virus / anti spyware programs.

[WolfCoder]

Except many of them come from Russia or China (or some other country like that).

[333OnlyHalfEvil]

i think three years is too much for hacking into a school computer to change a letter grade; maybe detention every day for the rest of high school. they are being made into an example. and 69 felony counts? what were the rest of them?

[modi123_1]

Random rez'ing of this thread..

A cursory google search turned up the charges consisted of:

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"altering and stealing public records, computer fraud, burglary, identity theft and receiving stolen property and conspiracy"

Initially not that many, but considering he did this for "12 other classmates" plus himself that adds up quickly.

http://schoolfinder....ools-computers/

[333OnlyHalfEvil]

Did it say what the burglary/receiving stolen property was? If burglary is breaking into a computer network and receiving stolen property is downloading a gradebook then I think three years is still too much...