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UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack

Posted by samzenpus on from the eyes-on-your-own-paper dept.

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?"

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  1. Blowjob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blowjob would have done the same without all this popularity. Huh .. kids will never learn.

    1. Re:Blowjob by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Professor, I will do ANYTHING to get an A. (wink wink nudge nudge"

      "Well then, why don't you try studying?"

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    2. Re:Blowjob by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd think her popularity would increase with the amount of sucking.

      Indeed. As illustrated by this excellent graph:

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    3. Re:Blowjob by R.Caley · · Score: 5, Funny
      Gee, no wonder women are leaving it.

      What with men having the advantage because they give better blowjobs you mean?

      "if a woman wants to get ahead, all she has to do is suck some dick."

      Strange choice of example. It says that men are easily corrupted by offers of trivial sexual favours. It doesn't say anything negative about women at all.

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    4. Re:Blowjob by locr1an · · Score: 5, Funny

      oh, men are usually so easy we don't *have* to offer a blowjob... I remember I used to manage an auto shop, and occasionally when things were slow I'd pull my car into the garage and change the oil, tune it up, etc. I kid you not, all I'd have to do is put my car on the lift and say in a tired voice "this drain plugs on really tight!" Next thing you know I'd have two guys working on my car to prove how easy it all is while I drank my coffee and listened to the radio show. please women...let them think they help us, let them think *they is* so so smart before you mess up my whole M.O.!!!

  2. Can't Hack It by Teknobob · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess it brings a new meaning to not being able to hack it in college.
    *ducks*

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  3. Re:Shoulda used an open wireless access point! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ugh. chicks are hacking their college grades now.

    Comp sci has suddenly become too common for me, I need a new career.

  4. The Irony is by therealfitzman · · Score: 5, Funny

    the only grade that was changed was an F in "Ethics 101".

  5. War Games by bonch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Changing your grade is as simple as looking for the password taped under the desk!

  6. Re:Shoulda used an open wireless access point! by jd · · Score: 5, Funny
    She might have gotten away with it if she had used an open wireless access point


    Nonono! The line is "if it hadn't been for those pesky kids and that dog!"

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  7. Signature fun by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  8. The professors' password, of course... by mrjb · · Score: 4, Funny

    was 'pencil'. That week. Written down on a piece of paper carefully kept in the drawer.

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  9. Re:"Hack"? by Frogbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:she didn't compromise the system by mattspammail · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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