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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honesty

[slashdotnickname]

Yes, the administration was stupid for taping the passwords and someone in their office definetly needs to be punished, but what happened to the value of honesty?

We all love to complain about crooked politicians and evil corporations, and yet when an individual's honesty is tested we give them a pass... "it's the school's fault that the students hacked into their lent laptops" ...bullshit!

These students came to a diverging path... and instead of taking the high road and telling someone about fixing the security hole, they chose to abuse it.

Fuck 'em.

Same stupidity that gave them the ibooks

[Gothmolly]

Now is their downfall, with its "no thought^Wtolerance" policy for hacking.

What, pray tell, do some kids in high school need ibooks for? While those of you who live in the US, are under 22 and have laptops might disagree, the rest of us realize that there really is a world out there outside of your parents' basement. This is not a flame. My point is that the kids with the laptops are not qualified to weight in on their necessity.

So back to my question - why do these kids have laptops? To IM each other, surf porn, and pirate music? I, and countless students before me, survived high school w/o a laptop. Heck, I had a typewriter, for those "really important papers". How is knowing how to create tables in MS Word a life skill that high schools should teach?

Can anyone provide a real, quantifiable benefit to kids having these $$$$ trinkets (at my expense)?