chev65 said:

If he really was very intelligent he would have use a proxy server to hack the schools account from.

Thanks for posting Kari.

I think the sheer fact that he did it, is impressive enough.

How she managed to do is is simply amazing. I see a bright future for her if she doesnt hack anymore.

Thats some impressive stuff. I see a very bright future for this young kid!

All the kid did was see the teachers login name and password and remembered it. That particular teacher had full Administrave privilidges. So all it was was someone knowing a login name and password and not a true hack. LOL But like you all said impressive for a 9 year old. LOL

yeah, logging in using details isnt exactly hacking and when people say it is, it kinda boils my tinkle. Crap alot of my old professors used to type in their entire login accidentally (often) into the user name area (on projector...), then I'd just login, fix the network up, clear some spam, add some more learning resources, put a Nes emulator somewhere and doom 1 and 2 for when class was worthless.
Get out.
Then watch as the technicians scratch their heads.

At one point I got punished for it, loud mouthing the entire LOL HAX, WAR GAYMZ crap.
People just find the word hacking alot more powerful, grabs attention, even if they don't know anything about what they are talking about, such is media.

This is another example of the fire-drill overreaction folks have to information security. It's a blackboard folks. If the kid took chalk to a physical blackboard you'd have never read about it. The police wouldn't have been called. I think the reaction should have been to write up the IT guy who gave a teacher admin access and write up the teacher for not keeping the password secret. And maybe a detention for the kid. No police should have been called.

baarod said:

This is another example of the fire-drill overreaction folks have to information security. It's a blackboard folks. If the kid took chalk to a physical blackboard you'd have never read about it. The police wouldn't have been called. I think the reaction should have been to write up the IT guy who gave a teacher admin access and write up the teacher for not keeping the password secret. And maybe a detention for the kid. No police should have been called.

You must remember that as of the time the police were called, all the teachers knew is that their passwords were hacked. They had no idea who did it, or how.

Jonathan_King said:

baarod said:

This is another example of the fire-drill overreaction folks have to information security. It's a blackboard folks. If the kid took chalk to a physical blackboard you'd have never read about it. The police wouldn't have been called. I think the reaction should have been to write up the IT guy who gave a teacher admin access and write up the teacher for not keeping the password secret. And maybe a detention for the kid. No police should have been called.

You must remember that as of the time the police were called, all the teachers knew is that their passwords were hacked. They had no idea who did it, or how.

It's still a blackboard at an elementary school. Not a matter of national security.