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Russia Today America reports:
A 14-year-old middle school student is facing felony computer hacking charges after he admitted to accessing a teacher's computer during class without permission. If that wasn't bad enough, he then displayed an image of two men kissing.
Domanik Green, an eighth grader at Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with an offense against a computer system and unauthorized access: a third-degree felony under Florida state law.
[...] The school had distributed a single password for all teachers to use, approximately two years ago. One educator had shared it with a student, who soon let his classmates in on the secret.
The Tampa Bay Times notes:
Green, interviewed at home, said students would often log into the administrative account to screen-share with their friends. They'd use the school computers' cameras to see each other, he said.
Green had previously received a three-day suspension for accessing the system inappropriately. Other students also got in trouble at the time, he said. It was a well-known trick, Green said, because the password was easy to remember: a teacher's last name. He said he discovered it by watching the teacher type it in.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by gnuman on Monday April 13 2015, @04:28PM
The non-snarky explanation: In the US, juvenile records are sealed at age 18 and will not normally show up on a criminal background check.
Ideally, maybe. In reality, not so much. Do you honestly believe these records are not going to be available if that guy now wants to work for FBI or NSA or similar?
It is really really sad that a kid can be charged for playing a tiny prank like that. What would happen if there was wet toilet paper on teacher's car? SWAT raid on kid's room?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday April 13 2015, @04:47PM
If that guy wants to work for the FBI or NSA or similar, he's morally bankrupt anyway.
(Score: 1) by Zanothis on Monday April 13 2015, @07:35PM
I'd be more concerned about the fact that this kid has 4 years to do something noteworthy so that a search for his name on Google doesn't return this incident. I'm hoping that people finally realize that we all do stupid shit from time to time and that we should be able to ignore petty offenses like this in the age of an Internet that never forgets.