Posted on 04/11/2015 3:33:38 PM PDT by dennisw
Eighth grader charged with a felony after changing 'annoying' teacher's laptop background to picture of two men kissing
Domanik Green, 14, altered the background on the laptop at Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida Pasco County Sheriff's Office said he hacked into an encrypted system Youngster had access to tests and could have altered classmates' grades He has been charged with a 3rd degree felony and has been suspended from school for 10 days
An eighth grade student has been charged with a felony after he allegedly hacked into the computer of a teacher he didn't like and changed his desktop background.
Domanik Green, 14, has been accused of accessing the staff member's laptop at Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida, without permission by using an administrator's password to alter the image to two men kissing.
The Pasco County Sheriff's office have claimed he illicitly made his way into the encrypted system, had access to personal files and could have altered his classmates' grades, but the youngster maintains it was an innocent prank.
He was arrested on Wednesday and detained at the Land O'Lakes Detention Center until he was released into the custody of his mother later the same day.
The Pasco County Sheriff's office have claimed he illicitly made his way into the encrypted system, had access to personal files and could have altered his classmates' grades, but the youngster maintains it was an innocent prank.
He was arrested on Wednesday and detained at the Land O'Lakes Detention Center until he was released into the custody of his mother later the same day.
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Proof positive once again that Flori-duh is Nut Land.
A felony? For a 14 year old pranking a teacher?
The insanity from there never ends.
Maybe it’s the humidity.
‘Lightman. What a surprise.’
Might as well get your suspension's worth.
Stupid
Kid is smarter than the IT guy?
That ain’t no felony.
It’s Florida.
at Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida
It’s a good thing that the article uses the pronoun “he” or I wouldn’t have known just from the photo if the student was male or female.
It’s a good thing that the article uses the pronoun “he” or I wouldn’t have known just from the photo if the student was male or female.
Unacceptable behavior? Yes. Felony, not from what I read! Involve the parents and give him a couple days off school (from the looks of the kid, that might be a reward). Parents can give him some time off the computer and explain why what he did was immature and childish. The criminalization of everyone and everything is very dangerous and authoritarian.
And here comes the lawsuit.
One mess on top of another.
Too young for the death penalty, I suppose.
I wonder if he would have even been charged if it was a picture of a man and woman kissing.
I don't know where the figure of 72 hours comes from but the Red Cross seems to be making some alarming assumptions about what happens in those places.
That would still have made the teacher/administration look foolish, so yeah.
Dead wrong.
He hacked into a publicly owned computer (bypassing security) and (while that doesn’t take rocket science) he belongs in juvie with the little snots who steal cars or break out all the windows in the school at night.
Hacking is on a whole different level than snarky words on the chalkboard.
If the school system wants to hire him they can do that after juvenile boot camp corrects his priorities.
With Holder’s and Hussein’s new requirements at schools that black and white students be punishment stats be proportional to racial population percentages, white students and Asian students will be targets.
A felony? For a 14 year old pranking a teacher?
It's not just Florida. That would potentially be a felony in California as well. If you access a system which you have not been given permission to access and alter ANYTHING on that computer, it is a felony. You don't have to "hack" into the system, and the data altered does not have to be personal or need to have been encrypted, etc.
So if the teacher walked out of the classroom and forgot to lock the workstation and then a student got onto the system and made changes, that would be a felony as well. Now, in most cases it wouldn't be prosecuted, but it could be.
Well said!
Stick him in the Hacker Tank with "Big Dave Diode" /obscure Bloom County reference.
“It ain’t no capital crime”.
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