{"id":263,"date":"2015-05-06T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/information-technology\/?p=263"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:04:14","slug":"in-the-news-eighth-grader-charged-with-felony-for-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/in-the-news-eighth-grader-charged-with-felony-for-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: eighth grader charged with felony for hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Times recently reported<\/a> on a 14-year-old, eighth grader in Florida, Domanik Green, who was charged with a felony for \u201chacking\u201d his teacher\u2019s computer. The \u201chacking\u201d in this instance was using a widely known password to change the desktop background of his teacher\u2019s computer with an image of two men kissing. The outrage of being charged with a felony for what essentially amounts to a misguided prank should be familiar to those who follow how computer crimes are handled by our justice system.<\/p>\n

Usually, when it comes to bad laws related to computer hacking, or unauthorized access, the focus is the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)<\/span><\/a>. However, this instance highlights that many states have their own version<\/span><\/a> of the federal statute, with their own overbroad and insensible language, including Florida<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Florida statute is even harsher than the CFAA. A lowest level offense under CFAA (1030(c)(2)(A)) is a misdemeanor, but in Florida, the lowest level offense (815.06(2)(A)) is a felony. Furthermore, the Florida statute also neglects to define what \u201cauthorized\u201d or \u201cunauthorized\u201d means, and under these facts a reasonable person may think they are authorized if the passwords had been widely used by students.<\/p>\n

Students who are looking to attend St. Petersburg College and\u00a0pursue a course of study in the Information Technology field, can benefit greatly from programs such as the IT Security or Programming\u00a0Associate in\u00a0Science degrees or Certificates.<\/p>\n

“To protect systems from malicious software, one\u00a0needs to understand how the software is coded,” said Brad\u00a0Yourth, Professor of SPC’s College\u00a0of Computer &\u00a0Information Technology (CCIT).<\/p>\n

He strongly believes that this article and the ones that follow in the series would definitely drive students toward the IT security program in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Times recently reported on a 14-year-old, eighth grader in Florida, Domanik Green, who was charged with a felony for \u201chacking\u201d his teacher\u2019s computer. The \u201chacking\u201d in this instance was using a widely known password to change the desktop background of his teacher\u2019s computer with an image of two men kissing. The outrage … Continue reading In the news: eighth grader charged with felony for hacking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccit","category-tech-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}