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- Surferess, on 06/18/2008, -8/+601Wow, I know he shouldn't have done that, but 38 years seems a bit harsh, doesn't it?
- sk11, on 06/19/2008, -1/+349Prisoner 1: What are you guys in for?
Prisoner 2: I'm here for breaking the copy protection on my music CD.
Prisoner 3: I'm here for smoking a cannabis joint which I took for cancer pain.
Prisoner 4: I'm here for taking bribes to subvert the law during my time in government.
* other prisoners gasp *
Prisoner 4: No, hey, ha ha, I'm kidding. I'm actually here for hacking into my school computer to change my grades. - Panzwhore, on 06/19/2008, -5/+268you get less time for manslaughter!
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -3/+151KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- grawity, on 06/19/2008, -5/+146Lamer. What idiot changes F to A and hopes they won't notice?
I think I should remove that keylogger now... - freezerburn666, on 06/19/2008, -3/+141hes going to get F'd in the A in prison...
- granolajoe, on 06/19/2008, -8/+14438 years? A whole life wasted over a brief moment in which arrogance, impulse and stupidity ruled over a teenage kid's brain
- SolidBones, on 06/19/2008, -4/+133Prisoner 5: I raped three women and shot my neighbor, but that's ok. I'm leaving tomorrow.
- sgiffy, on 06/19/2008, -1/+104Yeah, but he won't get that. That's probably the maximum you could get summing all the charges. He'll wind up up with much, much less. Possibly just a fine and community service.
- Gadren, on 06/19/2008, -0/+99What's the problem? He can just hack in and change the length of his sentence.
- brutalentropy, on 06/19/2008, -18/+116"In an alleged plot that resembles the script to the 1986 high school comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"
WTF? That was not in that movie *at all*, at least not that I remember. They are confusing this with "Wargames", another Matthew Broderick flick. What shoddy reporting... - bxblox, on 06/19/2008, -0/+89Moral of the story: go to private school, then change grades.
- bonsomme, on 06/19/2008, -1/+91Maybe he'd be facing less time if he hacked the computers in a less "prestigious" high school?
- XBSHX, on 06/19/2008, -2/+79Maybe if he wasn't such an idiot. You don't change F's into A's, you go for D's.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+78That school truly felt the Wrath of Khan.
- westbay1, on 06/18/2008, -40/+115I think the MIT guys should swoop in and save this guy... put him to work for the government or something eventually.
- machocheese34, on 06/19/2008, -5/+80he could have held his teachers at gunpoint and made them change the grades, and he would probably get less time
- xenocide, on 06/19/2008, -1/+71hes a skiddie why would mit want to pick him up? he just used teacher passwords and installed remote connect/control software = skiddie
talents? yea i know how to dl stuff from the net - PJ1967, on 06/19/2008, -0/+55Or mix it up...an A, couple of B's, a couple of C's. He got greedy.
- sgiffy, on 06/19/2008, -7/+61That's probably he maximum he could get. The Brits are rather sensationalistic in their media (even more then us). No jury or judge would sentence him to that. He'll probably get community services, a fine and maybe a few months in jail.
- laserdog, on 06/19/2008, -0/+53Next time he should just steal a car and rob a convenience store.
Way less jail time. - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -10/+62I don't really think we need any more amoral, criminal sociopaths in government. We already have too many. But wait he is incompetent and lazy, so he is qualified to be a postal worker.
- raydeen, on 06/19/2008, -1/+47Ferris changed how many days he was absent from school.
'I asked for a car for my birthday but I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign.' - KesshoRyu, on 06/19/2008, -1/+45I got this explained to me by my administrator (they thought I had done something similar). Since a public school is a federal building you would get charged with breaking into a federal database.
- ericcire, on 06/19/2008, -3/+47That'll learn 'em!
- aethelberga, on 06/19/2008, -3/+46Maybe he'd be facing less time if his name wasn't Omar Khan.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+41You can't spell manslaughter without laughter!
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -4/+45A kid tried this exact same thing once at my school (downloading software for remote control + changing grades). The FBI actually came to our school and took him out for questioning. I'm not sure if he was arrested but it was pretty exciting.
It's been a few years since I've been in high school, but wasn't the first message when you logged on something like "This is federal property .... BLAH BLAH BLAH.... punishable by 7 years in jail and or a $250,000 fine"???
I don't know if this is the same for every district. - SteelChicken, on 06/19/2008, -8/+49I changed my Geometry grades back in 10th grade or so. The difference? Didn't get caught, and back then if you did get caught you didn't get a harsher sentence than a murderer might get.
- dOOBiEx213, on 06/19/2008, -1/+40NO COMPUTERS OR INTERNET? THAT WOULD DRIVE A MAN INSANE...
- blatantninja, on 06/19/2008, -0/+39"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."
F's? Dude wasn't going to college anyway. - iDiggIt42, on 06/19/2008, -0/+38I think he changed his attendance records at the beginning of FBDO, though, so that may've gotten them confused.
- CosmicJustice, on 06/19/2008, -2/+39He also physically broke into the school building.
- DocHoliday22, on 06/19/2008, -3/+35He's a stupid kid that made a stupid mistake. Hopefully he doesn't get the 38 years.
- IphtashuFitz, on 06/19/2008, -0/+31That and probably probation that includes the requirement of not using any computers, the internet, etc.
- paradexes, on 06/19/2008, -0/+30Clearly this goes beyond that....it was terrorism....plain and simple.
/sarcasm (for the morons who think I am serious) - thegreenspanput, on 06/19/2008, -7/+37he should have given himself Cs or Bs tops. Then he'd only face 20 years max.
- DeskFlyer, on 06/19/2008, -1/+30Or my co-worker.
- douce2, on 06/19/2008, -2/+29...and here comes the 38 year sentence for you
- franklymister, on 06/19/2008, -1/+27Maybe if they hadn't written the password "PENCIL" right there on the secretary's desk...
- akkibaba, on 06/19/2008, -3/+29How about we chalk this one up to a teenage indiscretion and give him 5 years probation or something?
- Cenobite, on 06/19/2008, -0/+25*golfclap*
- x5pfif, on 06/19/2008, -4/+29But wait, I was told the terrorists are also hackers. So if this guy is a hacker, doesn't that make him a terrorist?!
- SaxxonPike, on 06/19/2008, -1/+25Change the grades of someone you hate and send them to jail for 38 years.
- byronne, on 06/19/2008, -4/+28Not much of a 'hacker' if you ask me. He stole the teacher's password. Articles like this bring shame upon the term 'hacker', don't they?
- tim04, on 06/19/2008, -3/+27A week maybe for a crime like this where there's no victims. The worst part of the punishment should be the mere fact that he has a criminal record.
- didiman, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24he's most likely an idiot
- paradexes, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24Omar Khan
- MD12, on 06/19/2008, -0/+20In Ferris Bueller he hacked into the school to change his attendence record from 9 absences to 2.
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