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> What, the egregious crime of changing a background image?

Well... lets take a look, shall we?

> [redacted] said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.

> "So I logged out of that computer and logged into a different one and I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him," [redacted] said.

The kid was using his unauthorized access to computer systems to find the school cameras so that he could spy on his classmates.



You definitely misunderstood that. He was looking for a computer with a webcam.


A friend of mine found all the social security numbers for every student with free and reduced lunch in our school's network, without ever touching his keyboard.

Just by clicking.




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