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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."
The astounding part is that the same IT department that left the security hole open succeeded in tracking the kid down. I don't think anyone would have seen that coming.
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"Simon Grybgersczywy" no idea who he is but he was obviously at the back of the queue when the vowels were handed out.
This is why I send all my blackmail from my neighbor's WEP-enabled wireless.
Has the kid sold the film rights yet? I've got this great idea for using his story, basically a 'hacker' kid gets blamed for a crime bigger than just breaking into a computer system, it could involve a bunch of his hacker friends pissing off "the man" responsible for the kid's arrest, like signing him up to online dating services and changing medical records to show he's dead. Maybe we could get an a-lister in the cast like Angelina Jolie & some other well knowns like Jonny Lee Miller & Matthew Lillard.
Oh, wait, too late...
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Logging in and poking around is like seeing the open fly and reaching in to see what you can find on the other side.
Maybe we should just stick to car analogies. This one is starting to become quite weirdly uncomfortable.