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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Charged: Domanik Green, 14, allegedly accessed a computer 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
Bully.
“HO HO HO! JABBA NO BAGHREY!”
Where’s salacious crumb, the water pipe, and the frogs?
“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.”
Ridiculous. He should have just been dealt with by his parents;
(and then been hired by the school district to redo their computer system).
This is nuts.
The password was ‘abc123’? Good guess, kid.
“Land O’Lakes Detention Center”
Heh.
People in FL do the oddest things: they must be heavily for Jebbie in 2016.
The administrator should be sanctioned for violating system security by letting his password be known. (Is it "hacking" if the person has his password stuck to his monitor on a Post-it Note?)
... had access to personal files and could have altered his classmates' grades.
But apparently he didn't. Hasn't he watched "War Games," or is he too young?
He probably didn't realize embarrassing the authorities is a felony.
You mean that’s not a good password????
Please excuse me for a bit, I’ll be changing my passwords for the next few minutes. :=)
To make it worse, he thought an image of two men kissing would be "embarrassing".
He was just celebrating diversity.
The girl needs to get a new pair of glasses!
LOL - good point!
He's not going to do well in Juvenile Detention...
It’s England...expected.
Perhaps the teacher wasn’t “inclusive”? Sounds like he has a case if he goes that way.
I got caught looking at the teachers gradebook (paper type) while being punished with after-school detention for some other infraction. The punishment for looking at the gradebook was an addition week of after-school detention. The teacher had started locking her desk drawer then, so while she was down in the teachers lounge smoking, I picked the lock and looked at it again ;-)
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