Suggestion: When Hacking Grades, Just Hack Your Own
from the just-a-thought... dept
It’s just a suggestion, but if you’re going to hack into your school’s computer and change your grades to straight A’s, it’s probably a good idea not to changes all 19,000 students in the district into straight A students as well. It might, for instance, tip off school administrators that something was wrong, and that perhaps (just maybe) someone had, you know, tampered with the system. Meanwhile, you have to wonder about the student’s “hacker cred.” Points in favor: he got into the school system and could change grades. Points against: He didn’t realize that he was changing everyone’s grades.
Comments on “Suggestion: When Hacking Grades, Just Hack Your Own”
Tip
Next time, don’t forget the WHERE clause…
Re: Tip
Every programmer goes through this at some point.
UPDATE `users` SET `password` = ‘newpass’;
DOH!
Its always good to toss a LIMIT 1 on there also just for good measure.
Re: Re: Tip
Every programmer goes through this at some point.
Yep. I consider it a rite of passage. Now that I’m management, I also consider it a great test of our backup processes/sysadmins.
Not quite
Yes, but if you only change your own grade and they detect the hack, they’ll know who did it. It’s better if you also change a bunch of other random kids grades too, just to throw them off. But obviously you shouldn’t change the grades for everyone.
Re: Not quite
It didn’t do him any good as they collared him anyway. So much for “fog of war”.
A feature in the school's software
From the article:
“It seemed like a good idea; break into the school?s network and change your grade to an A. However, due to a feature in the school?s record keeping software, he actually managed to turn everyone else?s grade into an A.”
He did not deliberately change the entire district’s grades to A’s, neither did he make a trivial mistake. In happened “due to a feature in the school’s record-keeping software”.
Re: A feature in the school's software
I wonder what kind of “feature” would change the grade of every student when one student’s grade is changed?
Re: Re: A feature in the school's software
I believe that feature is called the additional funding your school can get thanks to the “No Child Left Behind” act.
(yes, that’s a joke)
Fake grades
They would have had him when he showed up with an A in P.E. No way that a “nerd” gets an A in P.E. =P
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