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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."
Most people I meet don't necessarily think computer security is a problem past virii and adware
Most people I meet know that the plural of "virus" is "viruses", but apparently that doesn't include you.
>Do you even know the purpose of felony vs. misdemeanor?
A felony is typically a crime that ends up with the person in prison for a year or longer. A misdemeanor usually ends up with a year or less. More info here.
>such as rape, murder
No. Felonies also include identification theft, burglery, computer crimes, etc. Nice use of the hot-button strawman tactic though.
That said, if the state chooses to try him as a minor, that is their perogative, but the assumption that felonies only involve rape or murder and the like is false and the idea that computer crimes should never reach the level of felony is ridiculous and there are already felony computer crime punishments which is a good idea as society shifts from property based to information based.
>>. What the fuck is wrong with people like you?
Perhaps you should ask yourself that question before you go off with misleading statements.
If you can't do geometry... that's pretty damn sad.
No wonder they're moving computer jobs to India.
I just graduated high-school in '04 and thus we had the standard assortment of pentium/celeron based win98 machines. My absolute favorite thing to do was just unplug the Cat5 from the back of every single machine in the library, only to come in 2 days later with hand written OUT OF ORDER signs draped over them.
The real fun was watching the techs come in (You know the type, 30 something and you KNOW you know 100x more about computer than he does) and just struggle with it. I watched this one guy run at least 10 different diagnostics then get frustrated and leave.
I felt bad so I plugged them back in.
I unplugged them in 2 week intervals. I have seriously never laughed more in my life, especially the time there were 3 techs pulling computers apart (and when you put it back duh you plug the wire in) and so they thought they jiggled some magical connection (yeah in all 30 computers).
they proceeded to open every computer, jiggle each pci card, press on the RAM, put it back together and pronounce it cured. Idiots.
Isn't the first rule of troubleshooting to check and recheck every wire? Oh but you couldn't tell these guys anything, they were MCSE.
Why didn't you patent it? :)
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
i am glad youre school has such good english classes two . teh english teachers are dong thier job good. it is a privages to see such postings.
didnt you ever do any homework?
i have warm fuzzys for the future. You two?