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Schoolboy hacker Omar Khan who upped his grades faces 38 years in jail
- motoko 18y agoThis is outrageous. 38 years (or even 1 year) for fiddling with high school grades? Really?
- noonespecial 18y agoToo true, Back in my day, when we cheated, they just failed you and made you do it again. Repeat a year, or get out of jail when you're 50-something for something you did in HS; choices. Zero tolerance and all that yap, I guess. Wouldn't want him to grow up and become a tur-rist.
- jrockway 18y agoWhat's interesting is that he would face less time if he hit one of the witnesses with his car "accidentally" and killed them. Justice!
- PStamatiou 18y ago"prosecutors claim that he then used teachers’ passwords to hack into computers and change his test scores" is it really hacking if you have the password?
- nertzy 18y agoA lot of people would consider social engineering part of hacking. Either way, a hacker doesn't feel the artificial limitation of rules. He had a mission to complete, and he had the passwords to help him complete it, so he took the simple path. Sounds like a hacker to me. That said, the punishment does not fit the crime.
- jamiequint 18y ago"he installed spyware on school hard drives that allowed him to access the computers from remote locations." Uhh. I think thats actually called a backdoor. How large has the definition of spyware grown nowadays?
- jauco 18y agoabout as large as the definition of 'hacker'
- mootpoint 18y agoSee, if you are going to hack your grade, you do this: 1) Change some of your bad grades to better ones 2) LOWER some of your higher grades 3) Do this for others people's grade 4) Don't be greedy and make large changes. No Fs to As If such a change is detected, the blame wouldn't fall on you. It seems that all those crackers are very short sighted and fail to think their plan though.
- petercooper 18y agoIf only the penalty for lying on your résumé were as harsh.