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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: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:55AM
no IT professional even semi-competent would say that
I would be willing to bet that this was the best the IT professional could manage without having the teachers taping the passwords to the computer. Schools are hard places to implement corporate level security, typically the IT people hold the least secure jobs and bucking the will of the users is a tough go.
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Tuesday April 14 2015, @10:18AM
I was (briefly) IT manager for a school - getting teachers to remember passwords is okay, as long as you can also get them to remember their usernames. And yeah, job security is just zero in those places.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday April 14 2015, @04:30PM
So because there are teachers that can't remember their FB password the security scheme is lowered to one password fits all? That's practically criminal. People keep losing keys to the doors so we'll just not put locks on.
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