09-02-2005, 06:31 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Felony charges dropped against the Kutztown 13!! WOOHOO!!! A triumph on the side of common sense! (They got 15 hours of community service, instead..)
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09-02-2005, 09:51 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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Let's hope that the kids actually do learn something from this deal - not to break into systems they aren't allowed to. I'm surprised (and disappointed) that they were punished so little for this. I wouldn't think it'd be out of line to give them 100 hours of community service. 100 is more of a punishing number, while 15 is just spending a weekend doing something.
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09-02-2005, 10:59 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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I've done 15 hours of community service and 24 hours of community service. Trust me, they're punishment. 100 Hours for "breaking" a password that was taped to the laptop? I think not..
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09-02-2005, 11:29 AM | #4 (permalink) | |
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I guess I missed the issue behind all of this. So they were all assigned labtops, and a few of these students had
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There is a felony in there where? I'm sorry but this shit is out of hand. Sure take away the students account privlidges and take back the notebooks, but pressing charges is utter bullshit.
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09-03-2005, 09:17 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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We had winVNC for remote monitoring on our school desktop computers in high school, and within five minutes of beginning my programming class, I had written and utilized a brute-force utility and recovered the password. I handed slips of paper with the passowrd on it to two people, and within the hour, the whole school knew about the system and some of the smarter ones were misuising it. One wek later, we arrived at school to find that VNC had mysteriously disappeared from every computer on the network. It was fun to abuse while it lasted.
The best part was that every network admin knew that I had done it, but they couldn't do a damn thing about it without any proof. I was also the mystery man who remotely accessed the faculty printer (1000+ pages per minute) to make a few hundred copies of step-by-step illustrated intsructions for bypassing the internet filter by using the board of ed proxy server instead of the HS server as the gateway. Again, I was dangerously close to being caught, but there was no proof that I had done it since the only identifying mark was a few lines of lyrics from a particular Nine Inch Nails song (anyone want to guess which song it was? ) I was smart enough not to say a word, and the people who I wanted to know figured it out. |
09-05-2005, 10:10 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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I'm proud that someone in the courts had common sense and didn't take this case too far. Every student, from the inception of computers, has tried to crack them in any way possible.
As one of my friends said (who graduated from Kutztown a few years earlier than these kids) "Thank God I wasn't there - we'd all be in jail" Edit: Could anyone provide a link to their website?
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