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Boy, 18, who hacked into high school's database and attributed a Adolf Hitler quote to George Floyd is arrested and charged with hacking
Daily Mail ^ | 12 July 2021 | ASSOCIATED PRESS and SANDRA SALATHE

Posted on 07/12/2021 9:14:26 PM PDT by Trillian

A Connecticut teen has been charged with computer crimes after police say he hacked into his school's database and referenced a quote from Adolf Hitler in a high school yearbook.

Hollister Tryon, 18, was a student at Glastonbury High School, where the quote appeared in May beneath the photo of an unsuspecting classmate, police said.

It read, 'It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.'

The quote was attributed in the yearbook to George Floyd, the Black man killed by Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin last May.

The quotes were discovered in May after the school began distributing the yearbooks.

The school later recalled the yearbooks to remove the offending quotes.

Police said Tyron was also responsible for another unauthorized yearbook entry, which referenced one of the Boston Marathon bombers and drug use.

In an email to the school community, Glastonbury principle, Dr. Nancy E. Bean said the school is 'saddened' and 'distressed' by the incident and condemns all acts of violence.

'Acts of bias, bullying, and cruelty are not acceptable at out school,' Bean wrote. 'We are committed to to ensuring all Glastonbury High School students feel safe and supported.'

He is accused of unlawfully accessing a computer database students used to submit their yearbook quotes, changing the two students' quotes prior to publication of the yearbook in October 2020.

His bond was set at $5,000.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: connecticut; education; fentanylfloyd; georgefloyd; hacking; hitler
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1 posted on 07/12/2021 9:14:26 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian

I’m not really quite sure I understand the meaning and the message here. What was his purpose? Was he trying to be clever?


2 posted on 07/12/2021 9:17:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Trillian
Hey! Can't anybody take a joke? Maybe George Floyd really did say that. Who am I to judge?

3 posted on 07/12/2021 9:21:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: Trillian

It’s principal, not principle, you nimrods.

And why is black capitalized?


4 posted on 07/12/2021 9:26:59 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Trillian

The school later recalled the yearbooks to remove the offending quotes.


I love a good book burning.


5 posted on 07/12/2021 9:27:49 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Responsibility2nd

He alone thought it was clever. Too clever by half.
Maybe that was the kids clumsy way of saying people are lavishing so much praise and unconditional acceptance of anything George Floyd did or said it has become ridiculous.

So maybe this kid thought he would get a kick out of seeing people adoring George Floyd with a phrase straight from one of the most hated men in modern western history (Hitler).

Technically, he was smart enough to hack into the schools database, but he was immature enough to not care about the money it would cost the school to reprint and redistribute those yearbooks.
Most likely, few if any realized Floyd never said that.
In fact, Floyd never even spoke that way at all.
Ebonics was his mother tongue.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 9:27:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Trillian

Is that actually a Hitler quote? Anyone here know? I’ve never heard it before.


7 posted on 07/12/2021 9:29:41 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Trillian

8 posted on 07/12/2021 9:30:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Connecticut student, Hollister Tryon, has been charged with computer crimes......appearing in court on August 6 for two counts of third-degree computer crime......Tyron was also accused of being responsible for another unlawful yearbook entry that mentioned one of the Boston Marathon bombers and drug use, according to police.


9 posted on 07/12/2021 9:32:33 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: toddausauras

I looked it up and it’s from hitler.


10 posted on 07/12/2021 9:36:34 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: lee martell

Yeah. “Give me your money” And “pass the pipe or joint” was all he said. Of course he did slap a few upside the head with his pistol to get their attention. But after all, hi is their god and hero.


11 posted on 07/12/2021 9:38:27 PM PDT by sport
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To: caww

His face his asymetrical, meaning one side is much different than the other. Some phrenologists used to say that was a clue of inate brain disorder.

At this point in his life, he is misusing his talents. 18 years old students should be focused on looking good, getting ready for their graduation, ready for an internship. This is the action of someone stuck emotionally at age 12. Spinning his wheels.


12 posted on 07/12/2021 9:38:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Trillian

It sounds like something the devil would say, only you can clearly imagine Democrats saying the same thing. They all march to his drumbeat anyway.


13 posted on 07/12/2021 9:39:37 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: toddausauras
Is that actually a Hitler quote? Anyone here know? I’ve never heard it before.

Sounds very much like something he would have said, during the little get-togethers at the Reichskanzelei, while things were still on the up-swing for him.

Regards,

14 posted on 07/12/2021 9:40:03 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Trillian

This has caused quite a furor.


15 posted on 07/12/2021 9:40:39 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: toddausauras

I doubt it. It is probably some bullshit they made up. They are throwing the book and kitchen sink at him for taking the name of their god and hero in vain.


16 posted on 07/12/2021 9:41:19 PM PDT by sport
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To: Laslo Fripp

Media Style guide. Been that way for about a year.

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-us-news-business-ap-top-news-racial-injustice-71386b46dbff8190e71493a763e8f45a

AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black

By The Associated Press
June 19, 2020

The Associated Press changed its influential style guide Friday, June 19, 2020, to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”


17 posted on 07/12/2021 9:45:26 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

St. Floyd had many wise statements. They are going to give him a new chapter in the Bible.


18 posted on 07/12/2021 9:52:20 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Thanks.

I knew that. It still irritates me. Apparently the author has a style book, but not a dictionary.


19 posted on 07/12/2021 9:52:36 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Trillian

As Abraham Lincoln said “you can’t believe everything you see on the internet “.


20 posted on 07/12/2021 9:53:00 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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