Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com)

Stephanie Jass, a record-setting, seven-time winner on Jeopardy, has been charged with two felonies for accessing the email accounts of two executives at the college where she worked as an assistant professor. An anonymous reader quotes MLive: Jass was able to access the accounts because of an April 24 issue with the college email system, hosted by Google. Frank Hribar, vice president for enrollment and student affairs, said there was network outage caused by loss of power. On April 25, users received a text message with a generic, standard passcode: "Please attempt to login to Gmail using this password. You should be prompted to change password after login..." Not everyone, however, was prompted to do so. Some did make the change using a tutorial. Some received an error and were unable to create a new password, the timeline states. Others did not alter the password at all. The method "worked just fine, had there not been manipulation of the system," said Hribar...

Jass, 47, of Tecumseh was charged in December with unauthorized access to a computer, program or network, and using a computer to commit a crime, both felonies... On May 5, the college deactivated Jass' email account and access to all other college software. The locks to her office door were changed and her desktop computer was confiscated, according to the timeline.
The police report "indicates Jass accessed emails while using an internet network at First Presbyterian Church of Tecumseh, where she served as an elder."

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Christophobic leftards.

Re:Clickbait for hate-driven Leftists

[blindseer]

Christophobic leftards.

That's about right. Why does the child molestation by members of a church make the news? I mean it's not usually something that makes it past the police report section of the newspaper. Given that the victim is, by definition, underage then there isn't usually a whole lot of detail that is released publicly to make a story. But because it's a follower of Christ therefore it's news.

There were dozens of incidents of rapes on New Year's Eve in Germany and did this make the news? Of course not, because the assailants were all Muslim immigrants. Rapes by Muslim immigrants in Europe is a serious problem and almost no one even knows about it. A Christian church elder "hacks" into the e-mail of a fellow professor and that's national news.

Then again, I think I figured out why Christians committing a felony is news, and Muslims committing a felony is not. Because a Christian elder breaking the law is rare, and a Muslim immigrant breaking the law is not. We report on what's rare, not on the common events. Just like we'll hear about a dozen people killed in a small town church but nothing about a dozen people killed in the same time frame in Chicago. People getting shot dead in a church is a rare event, getting shot dead in Chicago is not.