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3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System
Gud writes "According to The Washington Post a 9-year-old was able to hack into his county's school computer network and change such things as passwords, course work, and enrollment info. From the article: 'Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers' and staff members' passwords, change or delete course content, and change course enrollment. One of the victims was Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale, according to an affidavit filed by a Fairfax detective in Fairfax Circuit Court this week. But police and school officials decided no harm, no foul. The boy did not intend to do any serious damage, and didn't, so the police withdrew and are allowing the school district to handle the half-grown hacker.'"
Though in a perfectly sane world, the police would never have become involved in the first place.
you have a strange definition of a perfect world. the security of a schools computer system was compromised from a remote location, and you'd prefer to keep the police out of it? somehow they were to psychically know that the perpetrator was a 9 year old with minimal malicious intent and thus shouldn't bother to investigate?