The school should be worried less about potential hacking, and more about the fact that apparently there's a publicly accessible directory containing the names, home addresses and phone numbers of all the students. The potential for identity theft is HUGE.
I detest practical jokes in virtually all their forms, and in this case there was not "no damage". Time and effort counts. They disrupted operation of the entire school, made however many people were there waste hours of their time, etc. Then there's the investigation and all the other effort -- which costs money and time.
Yes, no one got killed or physically injured. It was still a totally dickish thing to do.
I wasn't talking about legal issues; just about what I feel would be appropriate to teach them to act like civilized people.
Pranks and jokes are part of our civilization. I live a few miles from Menlo-Atherton HS. It's an overachieving school with almost no problems. 61% of their graduates go on to attend a four year university. One prank out of four years does not make them barbarians. It makes them teenagers who carried out a well-executed plan.
A plan most people are finding funny. Hell, I spent my entire school career being the butt of jokes and being the dweeb with glasses who got beaten up daily. I got over it.
how is playing a practical joke not acting like civilized people?
oh wait... we expect HS kids to act like civilized adults, when they dont even have the rights of civilized adults. the school admins are more likely upset that they were made to look like idiots than anything else, more power to the students.
why put them in Jail? what harm was done with this prank, beyond embarass the administrators publically...which is never a bad thing. if the administration attempts to discipline the kids who pulled this off.
I suppose this was disprectful of the school administration... all the better.
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Date: 30 May 2009 15:14 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 30 May 2009 22:06 (UTC)I think "pranks" like that should not be tolerated by society.
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Date: 31 May 2009 00:39 (UTC)Care to cite the section of California law they broke?
Hell, we did worse to our retiring battalion commander.
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Date: 31 May 2009 01:24 (UTC)Yes, no one got killed or physically injured. It was still a totally dickish thing to do.
I wasn't talking about legal issues; just about what I feel would be appropriate to teach them to act like civilized people.
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Date: 31 May 2009 01:40 (UTC)More power to them.
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Date: 31 May 2009 01:59 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 31 May 2009 02:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 31 May 2009 02:08 (UTC)oh wait... we expect HS kids to act like civilized adults, when they dont even have the rights of civilized adults. the school admins are more likely upset that they were made to look like idiots than anything else, more power to the students.
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Date: 30 May 2009 22:22 (UTC)what harm was done with this prank, beyond embarass the administrators publically...which is never a bad thing. if the administration attempts to discipline the kids who pulled this off.
I suppose this was disprectful of the school administration... all the better.