WFOR-TV reports Jose Bautista, 18, allegedly jacked his high school’s computer systems to change grades. Friday, he was charged with multiple count including intellectual property offense and offense against computer users. This incident is a scary prodrome of the ability of teenagers and technology. Of course, Bautista was indeed caught, but if a student was able to successfully pull off stunts involving grades schools will be facing even bigger issues than now. Technology in general is a prodrome to these types of crimes happening, but schools need to be proactive in the battle of technology, and implement better security systems to protect their integrity, and the students.
While this is the first incident, I believe it’s the first of many. Not all crimes will include grades, they could involve pranks and harmless activity, but needless to say, the system is flawed. The time has come to improve upon the computer systems in place through schools in the U.S. Teenagers have officially become more intelligent than technology security systems at their high schools. I believe the time has actually come and pass, but schools do not need to wait. The problem could quickly get out of hand, but I fear they will overlook, yet another, prodrome.
Jose Bautista, 18, was charged Friday with multiple counts including intellectual property offence and offense against computer users. According to WFOR-TV, Bautista was able to hack into the school computers and change the grades for himself and four other students.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/miami-teen-arrested-hacking-computers-change-grades/story?id=23577368
Emily McGuire 