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Student Logs Teachers Keystrokes
handy_vandal writes "A 16-year-old student has been charged with a misdemeanor for rigging a keystroke-recording device onto a teacher's computer. School district police received a tip from students that the boy was trying to sell answers to final exams. The District Attorney's Office has charged the teen with breach of computer information, a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail. This sort of thing has happened before. The problem is so pervasive that the GRE board has switched from computers back to paper and pencil."
Sometimes even the teachers need to be taught a lesson.
time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
he District Attorney's Office has charged the teen with breach of computer information, a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail.
He will more than likely meet some members of the GNAA while in prison.
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
Well, maybe not really.
:p
Don't wanna go to jail.
But it would have been handy in several classes last semester.
But I did recently discover the admin password for the network, by looking at the only 5 worn keys on the server's keyboard ^_^
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
I, too, have switched from computers to paper and pencil for storing sensitive information like password lists. I don't trust PCs when it comes to security.
Diabolical technique! Who would have thought!
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
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Back in my high school spanish class, the teacher made an offer that if anyone could figure out his Windows screensaver password (which was a spanish nickname his grandma gave him), he'd give that person an A for the year. The fool.
Reminds me of back in the mid-90's. I bombed the hell out of Geometry and so retook it in summer school. The summer school class was entirely self-taught with lectures and then a quiz, all done on PC. Found out that if the machine reset in the middle of a quiz, the results would be wiped out. Since the quizzes also told you the correct answer when you got one wrong... surely you can see where this is going?
I think that A was even easier than the one I got in AP Computer Science (back when it was still Pascal)...
Damn it son.. I thought I taught you right... Keep the price low.. sell more.. keep people happy.. you stay out of trouble.. now look at what you have done...
I did that too. We logged into our accounts in DOS; I wrote a DOS emulator that mimicked the basic command set. When they tried to log in, it would add their password to a list, state that there was an error, and then log out of my account to the real login prompt.
:)
I never stole tests or anything of the sort. However, I did have fun when the final project came around. While everyone was writing little text games or whatnot, I wrote this full-featured graphical demo. One of the scenes in the demo was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was the teacher's administrator login and password.
Freeze Ray. Tell your friends.
I've got a similar story that's similar
:)
I love those similar stories that are similar.
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"Every friday in typing course we got to play lemonaide stand and whoever got the highest score got a candybar. The highest score ever was like 5000$. The game was written in basic, so I changed the score print line to print score+1000000. We liked to play it cool, so we kept playing the game like normal until some kid walked up behind us, saw the score, them promptly flipped out."
I enjoyed graphics programming, though my teachers didn't. I wrote a program that filled the screen with B&W random dots, then cycled the colors. It looked a LOT like TV static. One of the students had a computer that the teacher couldn't see. That little twerp was always playing a tank game on it. (The rest of us couldn't, we'd get caught in a heartbeat.) So I swapped his game executable with my static generator, and the dude spent 5 minutes staring at the screen wondering whether or not he should tell the teacher he broke the computer.
"Derp de derp."
Yeah! Like football! We don't need more people who understand computers. We need more people that know how to buy SPECTATOR sports related stuff. When are we going to learn that hiring qualified coaches, installing night lighting (with the added electric costs), and remodeling aging school stadiums is WAY more important that hiring competant computer/History/Civics/Math teachers.
Wake up America!