Middle school student in Florida faces felony hacking charges for displaying an image
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[url]http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/04/09/pasco-teen-hacker/25532553/[/url]
[quote=WTSP]A Pasco County teen has been charged with a felony for accessing his middle school's computer system using an administrator's password.
This is not the first time the Paul R. Smith Middle School student has been in trouble for this type of activity.
"He was targeting a teacher, he tried to put pornography on the teacher's computer, said Detective Anthony Bossone with the Pasco Sheriff's Office.
Domanik Green -- who agreed along with his mother to be named for this story -- also used the administrative access to take control of a teacher's computer during class and displayed an image of two men kissing, disrupting classroom activities.[/quote]
[url]http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/middle-school-student-charged-with-cyber-crime-in-holiday/2224827[/url]
[quote=Tampa Bay Times]A middle school student who said he was just trying to play a prank on a teacher he didn't like was charged with a cybercrime Wednesday after authorities said [B]he hacked into his school's secure computer network.[/B]
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has charged Domanik Green, an eighth-grader at Paul R. Smith Middle School, with an offense against a computer system and unauthorized access, a felony. Sheriff Chris Nocco said Thursday that Green logged onto the school's network on March 31 using an administrative-level password without permission. He then changed the background image on a teacher's computer to one showing two men kissing.
One of the computers Green, 14, accessed also had encrypted 2014 FCAT questions stored on it, though the sheriff and Pasco County School District officials said Green did not view or tamper with those files.[/quote]
two men kissing infront of the classroom
oh no
better ruin his life with criminal charges
"secure"
[quote=TBT article]A middle school student who said he was just trying to play a prank on a teacher he didn't like was charged with a cybercrime Wednesday after authorities said he hacked into his school's secure computer network.[/quote]
[quote=TBT article]he hacked into his school's secure computer network.[/quote]
[quote=TBT article, still]secure[/quote]
[quote=TBT article]school[/quote]
Can someone sic a Microsoft audit or two on these idiots? Clearly it's not secure, and claiming it is is just asking for even more trouble.
Plus do they even know [I]how[/I] he even got the admin password? If it were just some piece of paper laying around, these charges would be infinitely more stupid.
Password was probably admin or teacher. That's how the password work with my local school district anyway. They also just had uncovered routers laying around and our favourite lunch game was to turn off random routers on the hallway ceilings and see what classes would flip shit because "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN."
We also did really malicious shit like writing applications to open about a thousand copies of pinball, a large note explaining exactly what the kid in question did to make this happen, and play loud air raid sirens and redirected shortcuts for minecraft to it because kids kept installing minecraft on the computer lab PC's to play during class. This would literally freeze some of the slow dell computers with a giant textbox basically saying "THIS LITTLE FAGGOT WAS TRYING TO PLAY MINECRAFT" (not exact words) for everyone alive to see. A LOT of kids got in trouble for trying to play games in class and (we felt really bad for this) a few even got suspended for "intentionally installing viruses" on the school computers. The school released a giant school wide email (teachers AND students got this) through the district email thing about the "minecraft virus" as well. It was fucking great.
See the real genius part was when we wrote into windows start-up to redownload this/reinstall it if it were deleted. The school literally threw away entire computers because of us. I think when that started we toned it down because we realized how stupid they really are.
[quote] One of the computers Green, 14, accessed also had encrypted 2014 FCAT questions stored on it, though the sheriff and Pasco County School District officials said Green did not view or tamper with those files. [/quote]
Oh like he could have done something real bad had he had a super computer at his disposal and knew how encryption worked but he didn't but we feel that people need to know because having the possibility of doing something makes him somehow a worse person.
I hate news networks
i'm glad the tech people at my school have all been very proficient in their work, strangely for a bumfuck nowhere school with less than 500 students
I used to live in Pasco county.
Coincidentally...
I tried doing that once.
I stopped at the last minute(it was mostly to prove that i could, anyways).
But yeah there's nothing secure about school networks. He had an admin password, probably from something stupid that retards do, like laminating it and taping it to the computer.
We used to do stuff like this constantly back in school albeit without porn. Thank god that it's a police matter now though, I can feel safe walking home at night now.
[QUOTE=ossumsauce;47508282]I used to live in Pasco county.
Coincidentally...
I tried doing that once.
I stopped at the last minute(it was mostly to prove that i could, anyways).
But yeah there's nothing secure about school networks. He had an admin password, probably from something stupid that retards do, like laminating it and taping it to the computer.[/QUOTE]
username: admin
Password: password
[QUOTE=ossumsauce;47508282]I used to live in Pasco county.
Coincidentally...
I tried doing that once.
I stopped at the last minute(it was mostly to prove that i could, anyways).
But yeah there's nothing secure about school networks. He had an admin password, probably from something stupid that retards do, like laminating it and taping it to the computer.[/QUOTE]
We had worse stuff than that laminated and taped to desks and shit. I couldn't count on my hands the number of times I could have actually caused massive amounts of data to be lost for no reason other than some idiot left the password for it on a table, logged in, or saved it in the browser/document labeled "passwords" or something.
I remember that my computer account at my highschool got locked sophomore year for playing 1.6 in one of my classes. Instead of bothering to get it unlocked again, which consisted of listening to our schools shitty system admin tell me how little I know about computers, one of my friends and I discovered that the shitty system admin left a test account active. It was something like login: 0 password " " and had admin privileges. It also didn't have the surveillance program that got my account locked in the first place. For the last two years of highschool I just used this account :v:
[QUOTE=spiritlol;47508326]I remember that my computer account at my highschool got locked sophomore year for playing 1.6 in one of my classes. Instead of bothering to get it unlocked again, which consisted of listening to our schools shitty system admin tell me how little I know about computers, one of my friends and I discovered that the shitty system admin left a test account active. It was something like login: 0 password " " and had admin privileges. It also didn't have the surveillance program that got my account locked in the first place. For the last two years of highschool I just used this account :v:[/QUOTE]
teachers that act as if all students are dumb and don't know anything are the worst
they're the worst teachers too because due to THINKING they're smarter, they aren't
[QUOTE=bitches;47508244]two men kissing infront of the classroom
oh no
better ruin his life with criminal charges[/QUOTE]
its not the imagine thats the issue it's the principle of the fact that if you gain access to something that you have no authorization or allowance to you should probably stay out unless it's whistleblowing that's a whole other subject in this case he should get criminal charges maybe that will set him straight i also understand there's people that don't learn for shit about what they do and continue to do it anyways which leads straight back to criminal charges
[QUOTE=draugur;47508268]Password was probably admin or teacher. That's how the password work with my local school district anyway. They also just had uncovered routers laying around and our favourite lunch game was to turn off random routers on the hallway ceilings and see what classes would flip shit because "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN."
We also did really malicious shit like writing applications to open about a thousand copies of pinball, a large note explaining exactly what the kid in question did to make this happen, and play loud air raid sirens and redirected shortcuts for minecraft to it because kids kept installing minecraft on the computer lab PC's to play during class. This would literally freeze some of the slow dell computers with a giant textbox basically saying "THIS LITTLE FAGGOT WAS TRYING TO PLAY MINECRAFT" (not exact words) for everyone alive to see. A LOT of kids got in trouble for trying to play games in class and (we felt really bad for this) a few even got suspended for "intentionally installing viruses" on the school computers. The school released a giant school wide email (teachers AND students got this) through the district email thing about the "minecraft virus" as well. It was fucking great.
See the real genius part was when we wrote into windows start-up to redownload this/reinstall it if it were deleted. The school literally threw away entire computers because of us. I think when that started we toned it down because we realized how stupid they really are.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of when I was in college, their networks didn't even block netsend. Once a friend of mine was goofing off instead of working, so I sent "BACK TO WORK, SLACKER!" to all machines on the network. Next thing I know some professor is fuming in my face saying "YOU SOME SORT OF HACKER, HUH?!"
At my school, some of the computers allowed the use of Konboot through USB booting and so we used to to reset the admin password to something easy, logged into the local admin account (LOCAL, not the domain which we use) and ran a teacher version of Lanschool (basically used to spy on kids or control the class depending on how it's used. It has the ability to do pretty much anything to the computer such as freeze the screen, take control, EVEN A KEYLOGGER which is apparently saved somewhere, etc) and mess with kids by sending them random messages or opening up random youtube videos. Well one day my AP Computer Science teacher noticed and told the deans who then called me down and asked if I had done anything (this was like months later), to which I replied no. They then pulled up logs on me and asked what I was doing using a program called "mobaxterm" to which I explained I used it to connect to my VPN and work on it. They then assumed I was using it to play minecraft (???) and removed my rights to use the computer. And to this day, I still cannot (this was in January).
TL;DR: I messed with some local admin account to mess with kids, got in trouble for using an SSH client and was assumed to be playing minecraft, losing my computer rights.
Reminds me of highschool where my friends dad was the sysadmin so he just used that account instead when he felt like doing stuff. You could also just hold the power button and have a temporary admin account on reboot for some reason.
[editline]12th April 2015[/editline]
You also got admin permissions if you unplugged the ethernet cable while logging in.
You do realize this is a 14 yr old getting [B]FELONY[/B] charges right? He's fucked for life, and his life hasn't even started yet.
[QUOTE=drake90001;47508560]At my school, some of the computers allowed the use of Konboot through USB booting and so we used to to reset the admin password to something easy, logged into the local admin account (LOCAL, not the domain which we use) and ran a teacher version of Lanschool (basically used to spy on kids or control the class depending on how it's used. It has the ability to do pretty much anything to the computer such as freeze the screen, take control, EVEN A KEYLOGGER which is apparently saved somewhere, etc) and mess with kids by sending them random messages or opening up random youtube videos. Well one day my AP Computer Science teacher noticed and told the deans who then called me down and asked if I had done anything (this was like months later), to which I replied no. They then pulled up logs on me and asked what I was doing using a program called "mobaxterm" to which I explained I used it to connect to my VPN and work on it. They then assumed I was using it to play minecraft (???) and removed my rights to use the computer. And to this day, I still cannot (this was in January).
TL;DR: I messed with some local admin account to mess with kids, got in trouble for using an SSH client and was assumed to be playing minecraft, losing my computer rights.[/QUOTE]
they're more worried about kids playing minecraft than a massive security flaw that would destroy every computer on campus and all the saved data
My middle school's network never even password protected anything
They put everything important on a local network that anyone could access if they had the IP address.
And boy, did things get accessed
Hell, I used my school's admin/teacher accounts before. The projector account (password projector) was a good amount of fun, and I've also used a teacher's account because the password was literally the grade she taught... They just killed the projector account and made her change the password, I believe.
honestly i'm surprised kids even get through school without severe mental problems. I know when I graduated I still had problems with stress. I stressed over everything because school taught me that if I fucked something up my life was over.
Still have that problem.
Different computers in my school allow way too many permissions while others block off way too much. So in some computer labs it's possible to when booting up the computer check on some information stored in the schools servers. This information includes the account name and and password of every student and employee in the entire school system along with the phone numbers, addresses, and emails associated with each student. I never did anything with the information but I know someone who saved every bit of it into a plain text file. Then in my computer science classroom we don't even have the permission to properly run some programs needed for the class.
Hell, even in highschool I found a network drive containing every student's username and password, a whole bunch of administrative documents, as well as the audio file for our national anthem that they played from every morning.
My friends and I thought it would be funny to change the file to something like [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQuBrIF1dic"]Big Ben Chunk 1[/URL], but I didn't want to get in trouble.
In high school, it was just me and the IT admin who were the only tech literate people out of around 600. Hell, I did so much IT for everyone I got my own Work Office at one point.
Students would install sketchy shit and also print stuff off of network printers all the time. I had to explain daily that you don't need a custom built PFSense router like mine for your room to keep people off your shit, you just need to not use the default password.
Felony charges for simply using a computers login, and changing the background of the computer... That is so petty. Should have been at maximum 1 day detention if anything, nothing more. Felony charges for this is overkill.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47508658]honestly i'm surprised kids even get through school without severe mental problems. I know when I graduated I still had problems with stress. I stressed over everything because school taught me that if I fucked something up my life was over.
Still have that problem.[/QUOTE]
i find it extremely funny how much they jest that they are preparing you for real life
not once did anyone teach me how to file my taxes, fill in a job application or even so much as file a police report
but apparently those thing's aren't important I guess
[QUOTE=nagachief;47508597]You do realize this is a 14 yr old getting [B]FELONY[/B] charges right? He's fucked for life, and his life hasn't even started yet.[/QUOTE]
No hes not, he can get his record sealed since its a juvenile offense, and no one will ever know about it that's trying to hire him. Hes probably going to get community service or something if he has a half decent lawyer.
I remember once my school's website (which students had to use daily) had a button kind of hidden off to the side that they accidentally put there that allowed you to edit the page however you wanted.
I put pictures of david hasslehoff all over it
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