mudslag Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/10/florida_middle_schooler_arrested_charged_with_hacking_cybercrimes.html Cybersecurity has become a prominent issue, with hacks and breaches plaguing corporations, governments, and individuals. But instead of blaming the cyberwar divisions of nation states or sophisticated hacking rings the source of the problem might be a lot closer to home. Is anyone looking at the teens? Actually, yes. Florida is on it. Eighth-grader Domanik Green, 14, of Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida, was recently arrested and charged with offense against a computer system and unauthorized access (which is a felony charge). He was released from Land O'Lakes Detention Center on Wednesday. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the Pasco County sheriff's department took action after Green used a teacher's administrative password to log onto a school computer. While accessing the machine, he changed its desktop background to an image of two men kissing. The computer had state standardized testing questions on it, though they were encrypted and police say that Green didn't access them. "I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him," Green told the Times. Sheriff Chris Nocco said, "Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done." Crazy teens. Green says that his peers frequently use the admin password to video chat or screenshare on school computers. The code is easy to remember because it's just a last name. Green discovered it by watching a teacher type it in. Green was originally suspended from school for three days and other students were punished, too, but he was later arrested because the school deemed his infraction more serious. It is now overhauling its password system. First off this should have been a school issue not a law enforcement one. Second, it's suggesting his arrest is warranted because "what he could have done". Of course it's Florida. Jose_49 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnelsoninjax Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Wow what can be said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+virtorio MVC Posted April 13, 2015 MVC Share Posted April 13, 2015 You guys should donate Florida to Cuba. T3X4S, +thexfile and mudslag 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted April 13, 2015 Veteran Share Posted April 13, 2015 hold on, the title is click bait... the kid DID break the law, you can't steal or take someone's password and just use their accounts... that's the real story here not changing the wallpaper Intersect, SoCalRox, T3X4S and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daorbed9 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah of course the article is more interesting if you are distracted with the wallpaper, but in reality what he did was stupid and illegal. Time for kids to learn there are consequences. SoCalRox, exotoxic and Intersect 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Commited a crime, got arrested, whats the problem?? SoCalRox, Pusska In Boots and T3X4S 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMonolith Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 So...i would have made the kid in charge of group policy at the school as a condition of him passing high school. A fate worse than prison. Astral, rr_dRock, Raa and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 So...i would have made the kid in charge of group policy at the school as a condition of him passing high school. I would agree exactly with this. I won't elaborate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Just because the crime was humorous doesn't excuse him from responsibility. But the teacher should also be reprimanded for using a weak password, and the school should investigate why their security policies were so terrible. Pusska In Boots and SoCalRox 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudslag Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Again this should have stayed in school. Why would one kid be arrested while others, who it seems also used the passwords are not? The idea that a 14yr old should be arrested over a password and how it was used shows not only a lack of common sense on how to dish out punishment but a lack of common sense regarding law enforcement resources. I would understand had he used the access to change vital info but even the school says nothing else was done. Stoffel, WAQT, Depicus and 3 others 6 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 This sounds just like liberal CT, schools are calling the police for minor issues that normally, just a few years ago, would have been handled internally with proper penalties, now schools are calling the police on elementary school kids for being "disruptive" or like a normal kid is really what it is +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted April 13, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted April 13, 2015 Lethal injection please. LaP, +E.Worm Jimmy and T3X4S 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thexfile Subscriber² Posted April 13, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted April 13, 2015 A little bit of knowledge can destroy you. You have to hide what you know in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah of course the article is more interesting if you are distracted with the wallpaper, but in reality what he did was stupid and illegal. Time for kids to learn there are consequences. I don't disagree, but why even bother with a damn password if it's going to be the person's last name. Adults need to learn the consequences of password mismanagement. If they made it so easy to get on a computer, they're just looking for someone to do something like this. They are teens, after all - they're going to do dumb things, especially if you make it easy. Authentic X and LaP 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daorbed9 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I don't disagree, but why even bother with a damn password if it's going to be the person's last name. Adults need to learn the consequences of password mismanagement. If they made it so easy to get on a computer, they're just looking for someone to do something like this. They are teens, after all - they're going to do dumb things, especially if you make it easy. Teens are plenty old enough to know about consequence. Being dumb isn't an excuse. The password is irrelevant. We don't put ourselves in a box to prevent the world from letting us do bad things. We teach so that they may be wise enough to make the right choice in the first place. We don't really teach anything anymore. The book stuff they don't even retain 2-3 years after high school. SoCalRox and jwjw1 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 When I was in grade 8, I got banned from the computers for 2 weeks for changing the homepage to something else. The principal and librarian thought it was a serious issue and thought I was a hacker or something, and I actually had a teacher who sort of defended me who told them that although he wasn't excusing what I did, it was very easy to change the homepage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 When I was in eighth grade, the school system could be closed by pressing alt-F4 and from there I could install shareware Doom . These days, it looks like I could have been in a whole ###### for doing something like that. The problem with all of this is how balls-to-the-wall Law enforcement has become. They are all tough on crime to the point of being robots that are inconsiderate of the fact that they are ultimately in the job to serve the public -- where is the human factor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Teens are plenty old enough to know about consequence. Being dumb isn't an excuse. The password is irrelevant. We don't put ourselves in a box to prevent the world from letting us do bad things. We teach so that they may be wise enough to make the right choice in the first place. We don't really teach anything anymore. The book stuff they don't even retain 2-3 years after high school. No ######, but plenty of adults need to learn how to properly protect their computer, just like teens need to learn not to do dumb ######. My point is there's plenty of blame on both ends as far as I'm concerned with this story. And frankly, arresting and detaining him for changing a wallpaper far and away doesn't fit the crime. We don't punish people for what they could've done (if we're being technical, I'll qualify that by saying without proof of intent to actually commit something) - we punish them for what they did do. Stoffel and SoCalRox 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I did way worse when i was a teen. I'm glad back then adults were real adults and mature enough to handle things like that without calling the police. Adults these days are worse than teens. Immature beyond understatement. +E.Worm Jimmy, Veiva and Authentic X 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah, the title is clickbait for sure. Cops ? a little unnecessary. I bet what happened is this f-tard of a teacher insisted on calling the cops because he was "so offended" and has an ongoing gripe with this kid. The school probably thought no big deal and the teacher went nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daorbed9 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 No ######, but plenty of adults need to learn how to properly protect their computer, just like teens need to learn not to do dumb ######. My point is there's plenty of blame on both ends as far as I'm concerned with this story. And frankly, arresting and detaining him for changing a wallpaper far and away doesn't fit the crime. We don't punish people for what they could've done (if we're being technical, I'll qualify that by saying without proof of intent to actually commit something) - we punish them for what they did do. You are still hung up on the wrong details. The act was that he hacked into a secure private school computer. No other info necessary. SoCalRox 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 looks like "zero c00L" is about to get a lesson in life to not screw with things just because he does not like some one. SoCalRox 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 No ######, but plenty of adults need to learn how to properly protect their computer, just like teens need to learn not to do dumb ######. My point is there's plenty of blame on both ends as far as I'm concerned with this story. And frankly, arresting and detaining him for changing a wallpaper far and away doesn't fit the crime. We don't punish people for what they could've done (if we're being technical, I'll qualify that by saying without proof of intent to actually commit something) - we punish them for what they did do. Did you not read the article? Let me help you... was recently arrested and charged with offense against a computer system and unauthorized access (which is a felony charge). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I did way worse when i was a teen. I'm glad back then adults were real adults and mature enough to handle things like that without calling the police. Adults these days are worse than teens. Immature beyond understatement. Maturity comes from not breaking laws and has nothing to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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