You've all heard the story from the news' perspective, now you'll here it from mine, a student at this particular high school.
Last year, I was a TA in Columbo's class. I like Columbo, despite how this story makes him look, he's really a great guy. He had installed Foolproof, to stop people from saving files, and getting access to the registry, then he locked IE5's internet settings tab, so people couldn't bypass the school's proxy.
Anyways, he asked me to try to bypass it, and he tacked on that he'd try to get me a government job, as someone who hacks into computers. I took the attempt as a challenge, and the remark as a joke. He witnessed me messing with it for a few days, then I forgot about it.
--Fast forward to the present--
About a week or two ago, my autoshop teacher accidentally blabbed that Lutes' got arrested for hacking. Intrigued, I went to see Columbo, to find out what he did. He was in a class, and had other faculty present, and played dumb. He pretended to know nothing about it.
Coincidentally enough, I had Lutes in my next class, I'd talk to him. Second period came, and he too tried to play coy. Until he found out I already knew the basic information. Surprised, he started talking, the words 'witness', and 'Federal court' were heard.
Lutes, by his own admission, 'couldn't hack himself out of a paper bag'. He had apparently been told of a similar challenge by Columbo. I don't know when he heard the challenge, but he had. One day, when Columbo was gone, he booted into Safe Mode, then removed Foolproof. That particular machine hadn't been configured correctly to overwrite the MBR, and block safe mode. The next day, he showed Columbo what he had done, and all was good. The following day, however, he was called into the main office, and expected everything to be just dandy. He saw Columbo, and handcuffs.
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You've all heard the story from the news' perspective, now you'll here it from mine, a student at this particular high school.
Last year, I was a TA in Columbo's class. I like Columbo, despite how this story makes him look, he's really a great guy. He had installed Foolproof, to stop people from saving files, and getting access to the registry, then he locked IE5's internet settings tab, so people couldn't bypass the school's proxy.
Anyways, he asked me to try to bypass it, and he tacked on that he'd try to get me a government job, as someone who hacks into computers. I took the attempt as a challenge, and the remark as a joke. He witnessed me messing with it for a few days, then I forgot about it.
--Fast forward to the present--
About a week or two ago, my autoshop teacher accidentally blabbed that Lutes' got arrested for hacking. Intrigued, I went to see Columbo, to find out what he did. He was in a class, and had other faculty present, and played dumb. He pretended to know nothing about it.
Coincidentally enough, I had Lutes in my next class, I'd talk to him. Second period came, and he too tried to play coy. Until he found out I already knew the basic information. Surprised, he started talking, the words 'witness', and 'Federal court' were heard.
Lutes, by his own admission, 'couldn't hack himself out of a paper bag'. He had apparently been told of a similar challenge by Columbo. I don't know when he heard the challenge, but he had. One day, when Columbo was gone, he booted into Safe Mode, then removed Foolproof. That particular machine hadn't been configured correctly to overwrite the MBR, and block safe mode. The next day, he showed Columbo what he had done, and all was good. The following day, however, he was called into the main office, and expected everything to be just dandy. He saw Columbo, and handcuffs.