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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. More than meets the eye... by John+Seminal · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That this is significant slashdot news. The woman did the wrong thing, and didn't even do it well. What's the deal? That she hacked, or that she was caught? She fsked up and now she pays the price. Nothing to see here, folks, move along...

    Can it be an indictment on society? Do we have a society where we MUST be the best to be happy? Are we stacked up against each other?

    What does an "A" mean? What does a "C" mean? And how fucking desperate does a person have to be to cheat, to risk expulsion? God, what are we doing people?

    People learn differently, some visually, some auditory, some hands-on. Yet we have done little to maximize people to thier potential. We over work the lower classes. We have a system where life at the bottom to middle is miserable.

    --

    Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."

  2. LOL by 5n3ak3rp1mp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm dying over here, I believe this is the most graphic thing I've ever seen on Slashdot. lol

    1. Re:LOL by wed128 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      oh come on now...i guess you never saw the ascii art goatse. The image haunts me to this day...