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Re: High School Student Charged in Computer Hacking Scheme

Korey Smith (newsemail@cox.net)
Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:44:15 -0600

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:19:09 -0500, mc
<look@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

> Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:telecom25.416.5@telecom-digest.org:

>> It seems so easy that it did not feel like a crime at the time. In a
>> corporation some of the blame would be placed on the IT executive that
>> permitted such sloppy security.

> I disagree. Altering grades is CLEARLY AND OBVIOUSLY wrong no matter how
> easy it is.

> If you are not trustworthy when there are no safeguards, you are not
> trustworthy, period.

True, it's a crime, but whoever is in charge of security should have
to answer for the sloppy security that he/she had in place that
allowed someon to make such changes.

The same would be true for the corporate world and a school should be
no different. If the IT department isn't doing their job in
protecting the information about student's grades, then they need to
held accountable.

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