Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report

Well, yet another teenage hacker who "did the right thing" by reporting a security flaw is being punished for his actions. Although it definitely sounds like the whole story may not be in the clear yet, a 15-year-old New York high school student has been charged with three felonies claiming that he accessed a file containing social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and home addresses of past and present employees ... and then sent an anonymous email to the principal alerting him to the security flaw. "All that was needed to access the information was a district password. School officials have admitted that thousands of students, faculty and employees could have accessed the same file for up to two weeks."

Comments

Re:Once again kids:

[Jane_Dozey]

Bah, posting to undo bad moderation (sorry)

Re:wtf

[DaveV1.0]

So, you would have no problem with someone breaking into your home as long as they left you a note saying how they did it, right?

The message being sent is that rather than being honest, helpful and productive member of networked society

Honest, helpful and productive members of networked society do not commit the network equivalent of breaking and entering just to see if they can.

And, the funniest thing about your post is that if someone had done to you what these kids have done to the school computer systems, you would be furious. And, if it were the school system or government you would be screaming for blood.

You are a hypocrite.

Re:Improper disclosure?

[rholtzjr]

Youth: Umm, excuse me sir, but your fly is open.

Elder: Shut up you young wipper-snapper. I know more than you will ever know... hehe, because I have the LAW to back me up!!

Re:wtf

[DaveV1.0]

It would be nice if you learned how to read so you could formulate an intelligent response instead of just making shit up that doesn't apply to what I posted.