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UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack
An anonymous reader writes "The UCSB Daily Nexus reports "A UCSB student is being charged with four felonies after she allegedly stole the identity of two professors and used the information to change her own and several other students' grades, police said." The article goes on to note that, though working a few tricks to get into the system, she was fairly unsophisticated, and in fact failed to conceal her IP address from authorities. With other computing snafus recently making headlines, are universities too careless with their data?"
Blowjob would have done the same without all this popularity. Huh .. kids will never learn.
I guess it brings a new meaning to not being able to hack it in college.
*ducks*
"I'd be smart if I didn't let thinking get in the way."
ugh. chicks are hacking their college grades now.
Comp sci has suddenly become too common for me, I need a new career.
The least she could have done was use Tor and Privoxy. Oh well. So much for changing her grade. Now that she's going to be a bonified convict, she can pull down the six figures like Mitnick.
the only grade that was changed was an F in "Ethics 101".
Changing your grade is as simple as looking for the password taped under the desk!
In comp science class in high school, we switched the keyboards of two computers and actually convinced a student to type his password into Telnet for us. When the password wasn't appearing on screen, we shrugged cluelessly.
We used the password to change his website into a massive gay porn site with images grabbed from Manhole.com. We put a giant ASCII penis in his signature file. And for good measure, we got his character stuck in an unescapable place in Dark Castle. All in the name of deviousness.
Nonono! The line is "if it hadn't been for those pesky kids and that dog!"
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A friend of mine at university used to have "Tempus Fugit" in his email signature file. This pretentiousness could not go unpunished so we changed it to "I wank daily"
He was sending out emails with it on for a week before a professor wrote to him telling him to change it to something more appropriate.
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Back in 1997 I saw my computer science professor log into his sun box, which was being projected onto a screen for everyone to see.
I had an instructor who did the same thing. Except his password was 26 characters long. He did denied that it started with the letter 'a' and ended with the letter 'z'. Go figure.
I'd rather get a degree in Zan, be able to take water forms.
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
"You have to use an encrypted web browser connection, so if you know that as the geeky https, you have to use an https connection, so that provides the real protection to it," Schmidt said.
Not to be confused with regular https. Geeky https is where you've been taking too many brain pills and decide to encrypt regular http by hand!!! In 128-bit no less!
University of Computer Skills and Bowhunting.
was 'pencil'. That week. Written down on a piece of paper carefully kept in the drawer.
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"[W]as anybody else here just the LEAST bit surprised that this was done by a female?"
No, actually. I've seen women sink to far lower depths in order to compete with other women, than men normally will. Women fight dirty, the ones that fight.
Huh? It's emasculating to call someone a person?
"Chairperson" is worse because it dehumanises the position
Because we all know that people aren't human.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
This reminds me of a little experiment I did with my universities ID card system. When you first enrol they ask you to supply, electronically, an image of your face so they can make you an ID card. I thought it was odd that they would ask for an image and not even check to see if it was of you.
Now I'm white, small and not very built at all so naturally the only real option was for me to submit an image of Mr T. A fortnight passed with anticipation and soon my new ID was ready to be picked up. I had this whole bogus "There must have been some mistake here! This isn't me" speech ready or if I felt funny on the day I had the "This is so me, I pitty the foo who be discriminating against my people" speech. I go to pick up the ID, the lady asks for my student number, name, dob etc. Takes a look at the ID to see the details match and hands it over...
nothing.
She didn't even question the fact that there was a huge black man with bulk bling on my ID and it was clearly not me.
I went home with my new souveneer, resubmitted my real photo and got a replacement ID two weeks later. I still bring the thing out for laughs.
I didn't have any mod points here, so I just logged in to the UCSB grading system and gave you a 100.
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Didn't we learn anything from Wargames when it comes to changing grades?!?!
The password is kept under the desk on a sheet of paper, look for the one right below the crossed out password.
And don't change anything more than 1 or 2 grade levels... sheesh.