Comments on: Kutztown, Pa. school district: Downloading iChat is a felony

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:03:13 +0000

lol..this is all pretty funny..i go to kutztown..in fact im ON one of those laptops right now..im in the same class as the “kutztown 13″ =]

its a good time.they dont blame most of the problems on us anymore

Semper fi!
Molly Riegel

By: geri

geri — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:32:36 +0000

sorry, posted on the wrong one. Ignore above comment please

By: geri

geri — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:31:57 +0000

It’s stupid and the only thing it will do is make the parent more resentful of the educational system and the kids will be caught right in the middle of it and that’s never good.

By: Q

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:13:54 +0000

entrapment.

By: blog.shrub » Blog Archive » Downloading iChat is a felony?

blog.shrub » Blog Archive » Downloading iChat is a felony? — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:23:20 +0000

[...] Kutztown, Pa. school district: Downloading iChat is a felony – IO ERROR Thirteen high school students in Kutztown, Pa., have been charged with computer trespass, a third degree felony, for simply trying to use the laptops the school district forced on them. [...]

By: Exigency In Specie

Exigency In Specie — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:22:41 +0000

Downloading iChat a Criminal Offence

Thirteen kids in the USA get prosecuted for downloading iChat, installing games and browsing the web on their school laptops.

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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:13:30 +0000

Terry, you have to be creative if you’re going to find security holes. All you have to do is boot from the OS X CD/DVD, or if one isn’t handy, download and burn a Darwin CD. Boot from CD, make a world readable copy of the shadow file, and you’re in business.

I didn’t quite intend to turn this into Hacking 101, but the point is that if you have physical access to the computer, you can read anything you want from it, one way or another.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:06:20 +0000

Is this old news? Since the release of 10.3 just under two years ago, Mac OS X has used “shadow hash” files to store user passwords. These files cannot be read by a non-admin user… which makes Jack-The-Ripper totally useless in this kind of situation.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:04:12 +0000

Use a Computer, Go to Jail…..Ahh, Pennsylvania. Isn’t that the state that just passed a bill in the Legislature that Prohibits a municipality from offering free Wi-Fi to its citizens?….Thanks to Verizon and Comcast lobbying.

Me thinks the name of the school district should hereinafter be known as “Klutztown.”

By: iBlog

iBlog — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:29:21 +0000

Break the rule, pay the consequences

In which Mark can’t believe how many people have missed the point…