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Student expelled for writing hacking article, from Netly News
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:49:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Student expelled for writing hacking article, from Netly News
The "So You Want To Be A Hacker" article in question:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/019821.html
-Declan
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http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1699,00.html
The Netly News (http://netlynews.com/)
January 21, 1998
Hacking 101
by Declan McCullagh ([email protected])
The end of senior year for most high school students is a time
for college decisions, vacation planning and beer-tinged teenage
revelry. Not so for Justin Boucher.
Today the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-area native will be expelled from
Greenfield High School because of an article he wrote entitled "So You
Want To Be A Hacker." Published under a pseudonym in an unofficial
student newspaper, it described in colorful (and sometimes profane)
language how enterprising snoops could break into the high school's
computer network.
The advice ranged from the glaringly obvious ("Some commonly used
passwords at very stupid schools are...") to the Hacker Code of Ethics
("Never harm, alter or damage any computers"). The finer points of
hacker morality and teenage toomfoolery, however, were lost on irate
school officials, who expelled Boucher for one year.
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