Student Suspended For Using Teacher’s PC

There are just so many elements to this story that seem so wrong. First a teacher brings porn to school on their laptop. Secondly that students were suspended for accidentally coming across it but mostly that they were suspended for hacking because they answered an obvious question when prompted:

“The hacking involved a dialogue box coming up on the screen which asked which car do you drive,” one of the boys’ parents told the paper.

“One of the boys typed in a Holden and then this image came up of the woman as a screensaver. We are furious that the boys were suspended.”

This whole concept of hacking being getting access to anything you weren’t intended to is ridiculous. There really should be some kind of requirement that a conscious effort was made to get there. I would be okay with it even if the conscious effort involved something like a dialog that said “Access only allowed to Adrian Sutton. Are you Adrian Sutton?” and if you click yes it lets you in. At least it lets you know that you’re not supposed to be there even if it’s horrendously bad security.

Society really needs to find a way to calm down about “cyber-terrorism” and start focussing more on script kiddies and viruses.