student hacker changes grade

This is so the schools fault, they should can somebody for letting this happen in the first place or at least change the policy so it won't happen again. when I was in high school you had to have the teacher petition the principle or vice prinicple, and the dedicated slave labor (she did not like me calling her that at all), sort of like the assistent vice principle with a writen request for why the grade was going to be changed and only a few people could alter grades after they'd been entered, the admin didn't even have access to the computer with the grades stored on them. I had to had to go through the procedure because a class didn't get added corectly and it took about 3 weeks for it to be verified and sent through. The only weak link is in the paper work, cause they give scantrons to dedicated slave labor so if you where studious enough to intercept the one with the grades in transit then mabey you could edit it. On another note, changeing an F to an A is jsut bad, she should have at least forged plausible grades like gone from an F to a D+ or C-.

She should move on to something safer, like cooking the books of a global conglomerate!

I have the access to do just that at my school. i.e. I can get to the computer via the school network, but I have no idea how to decrypt the file system that they use. The whole thing is in an IBM OS, and I have never seen it before, so I wouldn't be able to do anything If I wanted to. Oh well, my C grades will just have to stay Cs.

hmm..

Much like myself, i know alot about computers... then you give me some books about stupid languages and i'm like ..huh?

so i guess she has a point. but power to the people....i think.

I don't think that the grades should remain at passing... And it still was illegal. I'm in favor of a 'scare em into legal security consulting' round of penalties and/or suspended/probationary items.

Everyone is missing the point. This girl did something very wrong here. People who fancy themselves as hackers think that it is their right to break into a system because the people running it didn't make it secure enough. That is the craziest position there is.

This girl deserves to be charged with what she was charged with. First, it was ILLEGAL for her to access a system that she did not have a right to access, regardless of how easy it was. The data had her name associated with it, but she did not own the data. And on top of it she was CHEATING her way through school.

This girl is a loser in every sense of the word. Not only did she flunk out of school she got caught breaking the law. She is where she is because she didn't work hard enough to be a success.

Flame away!

Why doesn't she act more mature and just earn the grades. She is clearly capable if she can hack the system to concentrate enough to do good in school. I think it'd be an accomplishment to hack the school but wouldn't try to change grades.

I say life in prison, no parole! I thought thats what the new law said!

I wonder how often a smart kid gets caught doing something stupid like this, and the Barney Fife-ish police chief thinks about hiring that same kid to secure their ****-kicking, backwater systems. Hey...the FBI does it all the time...

Ouroboros

ok with the whole cheating thing well there are many skills you will learn in life one weather you like it or not is cheating.. if your good you will get what you want /if you are caught you get screwed......thats life...she got caught so f###her...