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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 GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday April 14 2015, @10:48PM
the post included a link to scientific research that demonstrates that teenage kids have not yet developed the wetware to properly grasp the consequences of their actions. Where's the citation for your assertions?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @06:29AM
Maybe the other AC doesn't have a well connected/developed enough brain to get the point ;)
Yes teenagers can understand some consequences, but not as well. And often at the spur of the moment - the perceived fun overrides/drowns out all other consequences.
Happens to adults too but for practical reasons we have to draw the line somewhere.
However I do find it weird that in many/most countries there are many lines - "legal adult", age of consent, drinking, driving, military enlistment and voting ages are different ;).
Might be good to have more of the ages the same and have some fancy ceremony where the kids are told they are now an adult (esp the young guys - you are now a man, congratulations, behave like one). Seems to work for tribes.
Maybe the rite of passage would be to walk down an aisle full of tempting/cool stuff (and maybe hot guys/girls) and make it to the end without taking, destroying, or even touching anything, except maybe picking up any litter on the floor, keeping it and putting it in the garbage can at the end.
If you can't do it, you're not legally an adult - you don't get the responsibilities/liabilities, but you don't get the privileges either (adults fucking you will be charged for rape ;) ).