timesonline.co.uk — It could be a long time before Omar Khan goes to college: as long as 38 years, according to Orange County prosecutors, who have arrested and charged the 18-year-old student with breaking into his prestigious high school and hacking into computers to change his test grades from Fs to As.
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cheerioJun 19, 2008
Justice is grand. Make idiots look like the idiots they really are and this is all the thanks he gets? District should be happy it was some lonesome teen and not someone with a more malicious intent, like identity theft. Fire your security personnel. But 38 years for a teen who hasn't even finished school? Yep, that's good ol' justice for ya, might as well burn him for witchery too. Seriously though, give the kid probation or a public sanctioned ass whoopin', 38 years is just ridiculous. I could rape your child and get less time then that...TWICE
zilkJun 20, 2008
If he could hack into the system and change his grades, I'd give him an A anyway!
Closed AccountJun 20, 2008
seeing as how you are here, I am glad you didn't bury their comments!
person425Jun 20, 2008
Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate, private, and publicly owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they're, they're terrorists.
person425Jun 20, 2008
First off, I got s**tty grades in highschool and college (~2.5), and I stepped into an infosec job that pays over twice as much as my parents' combined salaries.I went to a tech highschool populated largely by hackers, but none of us really gave a s**t about our grades. We did what we needed to pass, and spent most of our time on real research. When we owned the school network, we didn't do it to change our grades. We owned the school network so we could bypass the proxy, and the overly restrictive operating system locks on the computer lab machines.If this guy is petty enough to want the A, but lazy enough that he doesn't want to get it the normal way, then he is just a dork that has a hard time at thinking things through. Also, he wouldn't be at that school unless his parents were ridiculously wealthy, so I am sure the bail is pocket change. I doubt the kid will even get probation.
skratchnerdJun 20, 2008
HACK THE PLANET!!!!!!!
haaxJun 21, 2008
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blandymanJun 23, 2008
Oh. Oh. OH. OH!You need to upgrade, dude.
davidbeileJul 22, 2008
Oh you're so leet with all caps.Dude, I was just explaining it for those who don't know what a key logger is.Good job, you're ahead of the game, you even know what this "electronic mail" is too. I'm so proud of you.