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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. Radical idea by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    So don't click "Read more" and post a comment.

  2. Re:Female? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    We're hearing about it because it was an incompetently executed hack, after all. With that in mind, no I'm not surprised it was a female.

  3. Affirmative action. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, little, cute, white suburban kiddies... Affirmative action is practiced by the UC system. It's unbelievable. Most on you people from Kansas will refuse to accept reality. What's her name? Ramirez? Yeah... it's "never" affirmative action when it's obvious... but we still "need" affirmative action. Yeah, right...