Child Arrested Because Adults Are Stupid
A Texas 9th-grader makes an electronic clock and brings it to school. Teachers immediately become stupid and call the police: The bell rang at least twice, he said, while the officers searched his...
View ArticleDOS Attack Against Los Angeles Schools
Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles closed all of its schools—over 1,000 schools—because of a bomb threat. It was a hoax. LA officials defended the move, with that city’s police chief dismissing the...
View ArticleFear and Anxiety
More psychological research on our reaction to terrorism and mass violence: The researchers collected posts on Twitter made in response to the 2012 shooting attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
View ArticleIoT Attack Against a University Network
Verizon’s Data Brief Digest 2017 describes an attack against an unnamed university by attackers who hacked a variety of IoT devices and had them spam network targets and slow them down: Analysis of the...
View ArticleHacking School Surveillance Systems
Lance Vick is suggesting that students hack their schools’ surveillance systems. “This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights to challenge, and if needed,...
View ArticleHacking AI-Graded Tests
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.
View ArticleUS Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts,...
View ArticleCheating on Tests
Interesting story of test-takers in India using Bluetooth-connected flip-flops to communicate with accomplices while taking a test. What’s interesting is how this cheating was discovered. It’s not that...
View ArticleHigh-School Graduation Prank Hack
This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. During the process, the group...
View ArticleHacking the High School Grading System
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for...
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