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Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?
yamamushi asks: "Within the past few weeks, students across Boerne ISD were being called into offices to discuss the use of proxies to circumvent the schools websense system. The problem is that some of these students are being suspended from school for up to 3 months at a time. Shouldn't the school district be liable for their own insecurity? Why are they punishing so many students for something that should be handled from the district's end? I know at the time I was going to school there, I was punished for using a Linux LiveCD to login to their computers without using a password, even after I told the admins how to disable booting from CD-ROMs. They refused to update any of the computers and as such I was using the same tactic till the day I graduated." While security breaches by students are something to take seriously, should school administrations continue with their knee-jerk mentality to something like this, especially at the times when its obvious that no malicious intent was involved?
In fact, why have laws at all? The only people who do bad things are bad people, and they're not stopped by laws! :)
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Why did you tell them?
Who are you to go and audit their security?
Did someone pay you to perform that service? If not then you are a criminal.
You know people, this unsolicited "white knight" horseshit has to stop. It is obvious it is NOT appreciated and you can go to jail for it. So why bother? Other than to "prove" how much "smarter" you are than the administrators of the [insert school, corp, government]'s network. Whoop-dee-do!
Har it from me, AC, "You are sooo smart and talented! I bow to your greatness!! Now, go and start a company of your own, make a gajjilion dollars and hire me! I promise that I will kiss your ass, and I mean spread your cheeks and I'll get you on your hole! And that way you'll will do much more for society and proving your brilliance to the world than showing off to your local certificate holding bureaucrat."
Thank you.
> Seriously, I can't believe you said that. Child porn? Where the hell did that come from?
Not that it's mentioned in the question at all, but I guarantee you that this is what happened.
Parent: "ZOMGBABYRAPERSONTHEINTERNETS!!1!1"
School: "What?"
Parent: "Don't you watch TV? Some man tried to buttrape Miss America on Facebook!
School: "Fine. We'll block Myspace and Facebook at school."
Parent: "THINK OF THE CHILDREN FOR GREAT JUSTICE!"
one day later on answers.yahoo.com...
ASHLEYROX: N E 1 no how to get on myspace at skool?
LiLbAbIsExIgUrL: What are prxies?
xXmandiXx: Anyone have working proxies?
PoNyGiRl: I NEED MYSPACE PROXIES PLZ PLZ PLZ!!
School: We can't block every proxy site out there, so we're just going to start suspending you if you won't stay off the fucking Facebook. Miss America got sodomized by a boar that way, you know?
Teens: WE NEEDS OUR FACESPACEBOOK!!
School: Banhammer.
Parents: HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND MY PRECIOUS, PERFECT, ANGEL DUMPLING! CALL SCANDALCHANNEL 10 AND THE NEWS CHOPPA!
School: Sigh.
Parents: Class-action lawsuit against involved party with most liquid cash.
Translation: "I am a sensitive and misunderstood flower, who must be watered with love and affection, regardless of how anti-social my actions might be."
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Shouldn't there be an "I'm chargin mah lazers!" somewhere in there?
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No, I don't. You're not the boss of me.
Hmmm.... Perhpas the word "accept" should have been replaced with "exist in a context where". Although the Hadlock may not be the boss of you, it is quite clear that he is the nitpicker of you.
Nitpickers of the world, Untie!
The trouble is then, if you did X, there would be no way of punishing you for doing X unless we had a law describing that X is punishable and by what punishment. And you would have no way of knowing that you were going to be punished for doing X.
Yeah. When laws are outlawed, only outlaws will have laws.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
If you outlaw proxies only outlaws will use proxies.
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True. However, you must keep in mind that though there is no way of punishing you for doing X, doing X is frequently its own punishment as it causes you to spend far too much time listening to blippy music and pledging your undying love to girls in angel wings who won't be *nearly* as hot the next morning.