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Seattle Schools Students Steal Teacher Passwords, Alter Grades

Riya Bhattacharjee
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Fight the power!
seatackled on April 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM Report this
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Bueller? Bueller?
NaFun on April 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM Report this
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this is not a new issue, i first saw it in 1998 in middle school... the same old
hans millionaire on April 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM Report this
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My high school used an outdated version of Novell Netware. Let's just say that you didn't even need a keylogger to change those grades. This was in the early 2000's.
Packeteer on April 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM Report this
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At least they're learning SOMETHING, right?
very bad homo on April 28, 2011 at 12:57 PM Report this
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This is an interesting take (of course, that means I mostly agree with it) on cheating in schools and why it happens.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/free…
LJM on April 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM Report this
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@3, they didn't have these fuckers in 1998.
Fnarf on April 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM Report this
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It's just a paywall.

Got r00t?
Will in Seattle on April 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM Report this
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Doesnt need to be an external USB device, you can open up the case and connect it to the internal USB port. Can also run software that runs hidden in the background, logging everything and uploading it to wherever.

Checking the PC for USB dongles is kinda stupid, you need to check the whole PC, inside and out.
Kinison on April 28, 2011 at 1:08 PM Report this
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Whatever reporting you do, don't refer to this as "hacking" or "hackers". This is about as simplistic as it gets. (And the fact that the schools were unprepared for something like this should be a big, if not biggest part of the story.)
JoeG on April 28, 2011 at 1:08 PM Report this
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Take your pills, Will. You have to take them every day, remember?

Note that they sell these fucking things at SEARS, for chrissakes. Not exactly cloak and dagger stuff, is it?

SPSS needs to go to a token system, with a USB key. Something that you know, and something that you have.
Fnarf on April 28, 2011 at 1:12 PM Report this
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Thank you @10.

If you want to learn more about the variety of hacking please see HackADay for your learning pleasure. For those even less interested in the technical hacking, don't worry, you can enjoy LifeHacker!
GlamB0t on April 28, 2011 at 1:21 PM Report this
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Yeah, they were doing this all four years while I was at Nathan Hale High School.

Old news.
A Concerned Parent on April 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM Report this
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War Games? More like Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Matt the Engineer on April 28, 2011 at 1:58 PM Report this
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OH NO NOT THE HACKERS VERSUS CRACKERS DEBATE. SOMEONE DISTRACT THEM WITH A REN FAIRE OR A COPY OF THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE.

beef rallard on April 28, 2011 at 2:12 PM Report this
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Half the time, the kids don't even need a keylogger. They can just look under the keyboard for the sticky note the teacher wrote their password on. We had the same thing happen in our district about 10 years ago. The ringleader was one of the school board members' kids. He was making some very tidy cash changing grades on request.
Geni on April 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM Report this
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There was this one guy at my high school who got caught hacking into the school network. He didn't actually do anything; he was just looking around places he shouldn't. What happened to him? He was given six days of suspension, which he could take whenever he wanted, and which would not go on his permanent record. So basically they punished him by letting him cut class for six days.
venomlash on April 28, 2011 at 5:27 PM Report this
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@14: please explain why.

Ferris = changed absences.
War Games = changed grades.

Ferris' antic was a reference to War Games

So how is this incident more Ferris than War Games?
stinkbug on April 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM Report this

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