Technology

I feel like having technologically weak education systems are entrapment for people like this.

You put these kids in a cage (school) with other abusive children and then make them interact with that cage and wonder why they keep smashing the cage up.. While they're full of anger, hormones and mentally developing, but sure yeah lets just send the smart kid to prison for 20 years instead of sending them to go be red team.

Or is it because AI took all the junior opsec roles, there's nobody willing to have him pawned off on them

A culture that weaponises its legal system to protect technical systems that are secured with zipties and bad passwords and band-aid solutions is just asking to get absolutely shat upon by external actors

He was your best shot at protecting yourself from Iranians.. lol

Edit: This boy should have been scooped up by the CIA or FBI or something. Maybe he could have helped prevent the FBI losing 100TB of epstein data due to hackers breaking in and thinking it was someones CSAM torrent seed box. The incompetence shown in the depositions was galling.

The breach pierced the education technology company PowerSchool -- used by 80% of school districts in North America -- and "put at risk the security of 60 million children and 10 million teachers," the Justice Department said.

With threats to expose social security numbers, dates of birth, family information, grades, and even confidential medical information, the breach cornered PowerSchool into paying millions of dollars in ransom.

I don't know: their getting caught may indicate less skill & more ease to break in due to irresponsible information security practices. Maybe companies like PowerSchool are shit & ought to have no business carrying that sort of information for 80% of public school districts. Maybe government is irresponsible for entrusting that information to these businesses with lax standards. Seems like institutional irresponsibility all around.

Organized criminals see easy exploits & easy useful idiots to assume the legal risk of their ventures.

the way they talk about prosecuting children is infuriating

Sounds like a legal strategy

Honestly, I wish the system would just educate such people in “white hat” hacking (if that’d the correct term?). I mean, I have zero knowledge in hacking, coding and that kind of stuff but he seems really smart.

What he did is definitely wrong but, he also said himself;

"I think I need to go to prison for what I did," Lane told ABC News in an exclusive interview

"It was disgusting, it was greedy, it was rooted in my own insecurities, it was wrong in every aspect," he said in the interview, two days before reporting to prison.

Now I’m also a bit skeptical because, he could also say this only due to him being caught, arrested and now sent to prison.

Members of Generation Z -- who have had digital devices and the Internet in their lives since birth -- are particularly vulnerable to the allure of cybercrime because the social media platforms they inhabit can glorify "a criminal lifestyle"

It is not “can”, it is. Movies, tv shows and a lot of social media post do glorify crimes.

Wanted to write more but eh, at work…

We “hacked” PowerSchool back in my day too… when we figured out that every teacher’s password was their initials twice. Some grades got changed but they caught on, rolled back the data and changed their passwords