Tim Wilson asks whether it just would have been easier to study than go through all the pain of hacking into the school’s grading system and trying change your grade (or someone else’s grade).
Here’s a quote from Tim:
I’m betting that these cases of grade-changing are only the tip of the iceberg.
If your bet is solid, Tim, then I would say it is probably easier to change your grade. These idiots that caught seem like low-hanging fruit. Even the class prez, who should have been smart enough not to do something so stupid, went about it all wrong.
A quote from this Dark Reading article:
A police report indicates that several witnesses saw Shrouder making the changes or heard him say he had done so.
Why in the world would he make changes in front of people or talk about it? Maybe the witnesses were students whose grades he changed. That could be the case, but he is still dumb. Intelligence must be coupled with common sense in order for a hacker to be successful. Book knowledge does not equal street smarts!
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