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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudents Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/27/226654921/students-find-ways-to-hack-school-issued-ipads-within-a-weekBut less than a week after getting their iPads, almost 200 of the districts' high school students found a way to bypass software blocks on the devices that limit what websites the students can use.
Roosevelt High School in East LA has the most offenders. Earlier this week, Mayra Najera, a high school senior, told NPR that she hasn't hacked her school-issued iPad just yet, but that some classmates have offered to do it for her.
"They told me Friday, 'I would do it for you because you're my friend,' " she says. "They told me that!"
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)A whole generation of fanbois was spawned.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Apple never had and still does not have the market share of anything. Throughout the 80s and 90s especially, it had a minuscule share of the computingmarket, and still does. The Windoz fanboiz certainly must know that.
Facts? Proof?
Total Share: Personal Computer Market Share 1975-2010
http://jeremyreimer.com/m-item.lsp?i=137
See also http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/from-altair-to-ipad-35-years-of-personal-computer-market-share/
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Perhaps you should read it again?
frazzled
(18,402 posts)A "generation of fanbois" is a ridiculous statement when you look at actual share of the computing market. How can fewer than 5% be considered a "generation " of anything?
I call it Apple Derangement Syndrome.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)A generation refers to a set of cohorts fixed in time.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)hopped up on something like Purple Drank....I read a story that warms my heart.
Who says American Ingenuity is dead? Who???
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That was my reaction, too.
Offer kids porn, and they will find a way. The American spirit lives on.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)I always tell them, look at all the hard work our fine young lads are doing down in the Points.
bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)just by using a proxy server. I don't know that much about those things, but I don't know that the headline should imply the device was hacked; it has very little to do with the device at all. The ability to bypass website blocks is more or less built into the internet itself, and used regularly by journalists and activists in countries where internet access is limited.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Every school child needs a pad of some type. and school districts need to get away from the old fashioned paper book system.
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)How about warning or disciplining the kids who abuse it?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm a sysadmin and have been for years. The first rule of that is that you don't understand something until you break it.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Excuse me while I
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)Sounds like the students learned many skills, how to do the hack and then a quick exercise in entrepreneurship by selling the service to other students. Sounds like excellent hands-on, real world learning to me. Probably way more interesting and useful than whatever the school administration intended for them to learn (can you tell I hated school?).
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm a sysadmin. This is exactly the kind of skills I look for when I hire.
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)I would totally hire the kids who were selling the service. They saw an opportunity, developed a service and sold it to the masses
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)As long as they can still use it for the function the school intended. If they broke it to the point where it's no longer useful for school work, then send them to remedial hacking or somehow make an educational moment out of it.