Kid gets busted for pointing out flaws in school system

[lyematt at gmail.com (Matt Lye)]

Kinda reminds me of the Uni students who couldn't present about the problems
with the transport system.

People are to quick to jump on things like this to try and make an example
of the 'criminal'. After all its easier to make an example of people than
actually try and fix the problems. Half the time they didn't do anything
illegal, just used information in the public domain.

Then you get things like the 'hacking' of Sarah Palins Yahoo account...

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision,
determination, and and endless supply of expendable labor.

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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM, John Lowry <johnlowry at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=732745
>
> The article does not go too deep into detail about what exactly
> happened. It sounds like permissions were allowing a student to access
> an employee file with sensitive data within it, DL numbers, SS#s, etc.
> The student then emailed his principle "saying he had the database." Has
> it how? Like he can access the file or has a copy?
>
> Apparently the student used two passwords, perhaps another student's, to
> access the info. This something that should be looked at and is almost
> for sure a violation of policy, but looking around into what files he
> had access to? I dunno it sounds like the kid pointed out a bad
> situation and got in trouble from it.
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