School suspends “hacker”

A thirteen year-old kid gets suspended for three days for using a DOS command (net send * “Hey!”) to send a one-word message to all 80 computers on his school’s network. What’s even more disturbing was the fact that his teacher is obviously a complete moron. Full Story.

There’s a follow up response from the kid who did it (with links and more comments — the kid’s parents are pretty cool about everything), that describes what exactly happened.

Comments

puella says:

this kid is my hero!

Lauren says:

If this kid is so smart that he can do that, than he should work for a computer wiring company or something. Its not like he sent out anything bad–just saying ”Hey!” The teacher obvisly has NO sence of humor.

Me says:

Send Dr. Santiago and Berverly Sweeney both a message confirming how ridiculous this is, i’ll even give their EMails to make it easier.
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