Eric Walstrom is a sixteen-year-old teen who apparently was not doing so great in his studies at New Dorp High School.
Rather than choose the easy route and… study harder…. he decided to use the know-how he had garnered from a stint at the iD Programing Academy to hack through the school’s and even the city’s Department of Education’s computer password barriers and software security systems, proceeded to grant himself administrator access, set up the network so that it was accessible from his smartphone, and accessed the system remotely in order to change the grades on his transcripts and report cards.
Walstrom was able to remotely control New Dorp High School and DOE computers and he “utilized those software tools to gain full access to the student records of New Dorp High School, which contain the name and other identifiers of students,” according to court documents.
Unfortunately for him, the school’s IT guy noticed his unauthorised log-ins. The school decided that this 16-year-old was a hazard to society and notified the police. He was arrested Wednesday, and will be charged as an adult. Charges against Walstrom include felony counts of forgery and computer trespass.
“The school teaches you advanced computer programming . . . He used what he learned for evil. He went the malicious way and focused on hacking and manipulation,” said Sean Morris, 16, who also attended the iD Programming Academy for Teens.
“He used what he learned for evil,” said classmate Sean Morris, adding: “maybe he can get a Secret Service job later on!”
Well, I wouldn’t call what he did evil, and the kid does not deserve a lengthy sentence for a moment of dishonesty that had no consequence on anyone else. In fact, his skill at hacking could be very useful, as even the police would come to admit.
“You’d think a kid smart enough to hack his school’s computers would already have good grades. Maybe the DOE should hire him to expose weaknesses in their security firewalls,” a law enforcement source said.
Walstrom is also the son of a well-loved fire-fighter who had helped rescue people on September the 11th. The hero would pass on in 2013, after combating a “lengthy illness”, which would account for his son’s poor attention to his studies for the last few years.
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I’ve done something similar to this last week and haven’t been caught. He’s stupid enough to get caught or however these people found out.
Acting irrationally doesn’t make one stupid – especially at teen age. He’s rather smart but slightly irresponsible and definitely not cautious…
You, gloating over the net and despising that kid, show not better skill at being smart overall.
On the subject, the school is failing to deal with it by notifying authorities… they should recognize his intelligence and help him focus it instead of surrendering to the society stupid standards…
^he made a begginners mistake, judging by your comment you didn’t read the whole article, he didn’t set up a subserver to confuse the targets security, so he was seen in the system by the school’s IT guy. Stupid no, Ill prepared yes
If You’ve done it too, there are probably logs on the server and you haven’t been caught only due to human error.
If I were that IT teacher I would have send the kid a little message saying come see me in my office so we can hone your skills, oh and if I’m not mistaken having a sub-server wouldn’t hide anything its just a branch off your main server you would just have its IP address and the IP address to your main server unless you have like 20 or 30 sub-servers that randomly connect in out of each other until it reached your main server or in other words a VPN.
Ain’t gonna matter he changed his own records I mean he is caught by just that he should a changed a lot of other peoples grades and definitely not use his personal phone to access all of this use a burner smart phone yes change everyone’s grades meh change many different peoples grades yes especially ones that are not connected to you yes using public WiFi spots yes use a different hot spot each te yes always cover your tracks
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At least you aren’t stupid enough to brag about it on the Internet.
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He won’t get jail time for something small like that
One of my friend did the same thing and was expelled out of the college.
If he’s smart enough to do this why isn’t he smart enough to pass his classes to begin with?
Exactly, Tests and real life applications, or maybe he was getting decent grades and he wanted more. We don’t know. Anyway the problem is with the educational system not so much the boy
Because hacking only requires you to memorize little than studying. Hacking knowledge cant even be compared to the knowledge you’ll gain by the books… They’re in their completely separate world, where learning hacking is the easy route. Too bad that the world dont rally revolves only for the internet.
The school system has nothing to do with intelligence. It is about being a good test-taker. I understand school subjects better than most, but my grades are crap because I am not good with tests. That is why there is nothing wrong with hacking your grades.
I’m a 24 y.o. male who did the same thing except never used a smartphone and i never got caught. Than again i never told anybody until i graduated. Its not than hard
can you teach me how to do this thing i want to learn.
teach me
I did something similar and got suspended for a week! LOL….. free holiday – yay..
Felony, lol that’s what this country has finally come to. Hell if we all have felonies we can be monitored and disarmed. Sad
Easy to do
If only someone would have tought him how to use a proxy or the like, fuckem, I woulda zerod out their hdd, this guy had a soul.
Yes, these are all very true reactions, the boy should have gotten recognized for his talent long before he “chose” to apply it toward something poor planned and therefore risky. The school system should have seen this coming, instead they were too busy making sure students did what standardization told them to do, instead of letting them cut their own path. If we weren’t so forced into learning there would be no need to “Hackt-out” against oppression.
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I am also 16 years 🙂 but i didn’t hacked the college website but hacked my state board of education website which controls about 500k students database and 1300 institutes database.. i wanted to deface the website to deliver message but i don’t want to be jailed :). i can’t even report them by email because i am using internet for free. i mean by hacking(sniffing) other ISP accounts and using them to access internet. so they know about it there are two reasons to jail me :). suggest me what i should do 🙂
I am also 16 years 🙂 but i didn’t hacked the college website but hacked my state board of education website which controls about 500k students database and 1300 institutes database.. i wanted to deface the website to deliver message but i don’t want to be jailed :). i can’t even report them by email because i am using internet for free. i mean by hacking(sniffing) other ISP accounts and using them to access internet. so they know about it there are two reasons to jail me :). suggest me what i should do 🙂
Luckily the high school I attended had an understanding computer teacher who was also in charge of IT. Instead of getting angry when my friend and I were caught he chose to guide our sense of curiosity by allowing us to hack anything with impunity providing we would make him aware of anything we learned. If only more people would embrace inquisitive kids like this and giving them guidance in moulding those skills into a future career rather then casting them aside as a bad apple, marking them for life as a criminal and possibly ruining any chance they have at having a successful life. After all, isn’t that what teachers are supposed to do anyway?
Am I the only one disgusted that they are treating a 16 year old as an adult?
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