Kutztown Students get Felony Charges

gone6713 writes "The 13 students from Pennsylvania who were accused of hacking the iBooks provided to them by the school (Slashdot had a previous story on them back in June) have offically been charged. It seems that the admin passwords were taped to the back of the iBooks!"

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The real crime

[ruiner5000]

is making them use Apples, and therefor training them to "hack" on a platform that has a mere 2% of the marketshare when they could be "hacking" on Windows and having a chance to make it as real time "hackers" in the real world that 90% of the computers use. Sounds like a school I want to send my kids to. Actually sounds like the typical school wasting 10's of thousands on Macs.

Re:Human error

[ScentCone]

Having attended and later worked in an American high school where the mentality was...

Any chance that your high school's mascot wore a spectacular tinfoil hat? Come on. It takes a really bent imagination to picture a bunch of underpaid, overworked public school employees sitting around dreaming up IT entrapment schemes so they can lock up students (what, to reduce class sizes?).

That being said, we've got high schools in my county that are so overrun by gangs like MS13 that the other students and staff literally have to worry about getting their throats cut. So, like all tinfoil-based perspectives, there usually is a grain of truth to it.