What the kid did was wrong, but how is this a felony???
[What the kid did was wrong, but how is this a felony???]
He’s acting out what he sees every day on kids’ shows. They NEVER get in trouble.
If you access a computer without authorization and change ANYTHING, it may be a felony, depending upon the laws in your state. It make sense for the deterrent value if nothing else. We know this student accessed the system. What we DON'T know is if he altered any grades, accessed any personal information on other students or staff, etc.
That being said, the people running the IT staff for that school district should be fired for allowing teachers to use any part of their name as a password. Our school district requires staff to have passwords at least 8 characters long, must have numbers, upper case and lower case letters and special characters, and must be changed every 120 days. They cannot use at least the last three passwords they used previously.
Of course, that does not prevent them from doing something stupid like writing the password on a sticky note and putting i on the monitor or under the keyboard!
The internets are now belong to Lefties.