A Bit Too Much Tech For Teens
From ZDNet:
Cheat High Tech Cheaters
So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn’t want to do his homework to get there.
The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers’ log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades.
As if no one would notice.
Forget about four years in college. He now faces as much as 38 years in jail. Surely, working one’s way up from the lumber department at Home Depot is still a better path to a satisfactory career.
Khan gets his moment in infamy from a transparent form of hacking. You don’t just give yourself a magical ride up your class rankings in one fell swoop.
If you want to check out some really high-stakes cheating, check out what the Chinese go through. Last June, with about 10 million students competing in entrance exams for about 5.7 million places at China’s universities, one student apparently spent $1,500 for his own stake-out team of assistant cheats. He took a wireless mike with him into the exam, read off the questions to the three-person team working outside in a mini-bus. Two focused on finding answers on a computer. One read answers back by walkie-talkie.
See first photo on right>>>>
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Cheat High Tech Cheaters
So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn’t want to do his homework to get there.
The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers’ log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades.
As if no one would notice.
Forget about four years in college. He now faces as much as 38 years in jail. Surely, working one’s way up from the lumber department at Home Depot is still a better path to a satisfactory career.
Khan gets his moment in infamy from a transparent form of hacking. You don’t just give yourself a magical ride up your class rankings in one fell swoop.
If you want to check out some really high-stakes cheating, check out what the Chinese go through. Last June, with about 10 million students competing in entrance exams for about 5.7 million places at China’s universities, one student apparently spent $1,500 for his own stake-out team of assistant cheats. He took a wireless mike with him into the exam, read off the questions to the three-person team working outside in a mini-bus. Two focused on finding answers on a computer. One read answers back by walkie-talkie.
See first photo on right>>>>
Sid
