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Good Hacker Gets Bad Grades

By TChris

Why is a high school kid getting D's and F's when he's capable of doing this?

18-year-old Omar Khan should be graduating from high school this week, but instead he faces more than 38 years in prison for hacking into school computers. School officials at the Tesoro High School in Las Flores California allege that Khan changed grades and his Advanced Placement test scores. Khan is also alleged to have installed a remote access program onto school servers. In all, Khan is charged with 69 felonies.

Khan also broke into the principal's office to steal an exam that was taken from him when he was caught cheating.

Kahn is charged with a bucketful of felonies, but the $50,000 cash bail set in his case seem excessive. So far, his parents haven't posted it.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).