6th Grade Hacker:
A Sixth-grader in Florida is facing felony charges, and possible expulsion, after ‘hacking’ into a computer to change his grade.
“While other students ate turkey tetrazzini in the cafeteria, a St. Lucie West Middle sixth-grader used the excuse of forgetting his lunch to return to his reading classroom and sat down at his teacher’s computer to change five reading assignment grades…”
“The student was booked into the St. Lucie County jail, then released to his father. Mancini said he could face several years in a juvenile detention facility, if convicted.”
Ok, so he wasn’t really ‘hacking’, the teacher just left the electronic gradebook open, still make for a good headline though. ‘Several years’ in juvenile detention? You gotta be shitting me! In my day - which wasn’t all that long ago - we would have just been sent to the headmaster’s office for a good caning - good thing we were never busted eh?!
I really do think this is a little over the top for an 11-year-old though. He didn’t ‘hack’ the mainframe, and he didn’t break into a bank. He saw his gradebook, and changed the grade. Now all of the sudden he’s going to jail, and facing legal charges?! This kind of thing just gets blown -way- out of proportion these days.
