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Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades
the brown guy writes "An 18-year-old high school student named Omar Kahn is charged with 69 felonies for hacking into a school computer and modifying his grades, among other things. He changed his C, D and F grades to As, and changed 12 other students grades as well. By installing a remote access program on the school's server, Kahn was able to also change his AP scores and distribute test answer keys, and could be looking at a lengthy prison term. Not surprisingly, his parents (who have only recently immigrated to America) have decided not to post the $50,000 bail and Kahn is in jail awaiting trial."
Nonetheless, they can't just let this go with a "slap on the wrist" either.
Given how fucked up our "corrections" system is, a slap on the wrist is the only chance this kid (and society) has of not becoming a life long criminal and drain on taxpayers. If this kid does even one year just out of highschool, what will have learned from his fellow inmates about life as an adult? Certainly not the kind of lessons that will lead to him being a productive member of society. What was the kid's motivation to commit these crimes? He wanted to get into a good school. Why would he want to do that? So he could learn the skills to be productive member of society.
Sure he needs something like a suspended sentence over his head to enforce the idea of that this is not acceptable behavior, but he also needs to has his non-trivial talents and efforts used to pull this off channeled into a job or college major that will make him a useful part of society.He is at a crossroads where he will either contribute to or detract from our mutual society, depending on how we react to his crimes. Punishing him out of spite will harm us all in the end.
We are all just people.
Too bad he's an immigrant. We could elect him president. He seems fully qualified.
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