Harvard student tried to dodge exam with bomb hoax, FBI says

[Recursion]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/17/21943608-harvard-student-tried-to-dodge-exam-with-bomb-hoax-fbi-says?lite

Eldo Kim, 20, of Cambridge, Mass., was scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court. He could face as long as five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine if convicted of communicating the bomb threat that cleared four large buildings Monday.

In an affidavit filed included with the criminal complaint, the FBI said Kim admitted sending the bogus threats out of "a desire to avoid a final exam." The exam he was trying to duck wasn't specified.

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Kim said he sent his messages using a temporary, anonymous email account routed through the worldwide anonymizing network Tor, according to the affidavit.

So far, so good. But to get to Tor, he had to go through Harvard's wireless network — and university technicians were able to detect that it was Kim who was trying to get to Tor, according to the affidavit.

As I've kept saying during the NSA stuff: you always have a lot less privacy online than you think you do. Multiple organizations are always involved with routing your traffic, and they give you little to no guarantee that they don't peek...

[MADem]

1. The lazy little shit should have tried to cadge the Starbucks wireless signal instead of the Haaavid

one...

That was, well, pure stupidity on a number of levels. He should have "killed off" a grandma (important to keep count so you don't "do away" with too many of them over the course of a college career) and gotten an extension to take his exams; he probably would have gotten away with that, no question (more so if he wasn't on scholarship, and his parents were paying full tuition).

Those Haaavid kids just ain't as smaaaaht as they think!

Looks like they'll be a transfer opportunity coming up for the sophomore class!

The little shit shoulda spent less time playing pool, eating out, farting around with his dog and watching bad movies, and more time hitting those books...!

In his Harvard profile on the school’s website, Kim is described as “a freshman intending to concentrate in Psychology and pursue a secondary in Japanese.”

The profile claims Kim “enjoys playing pool, trying new restaurants, watching terrible cult films, and playing with his Mini Schnauzer puppy,” in his free time.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/12/17/harvard-bomb-hoax-arrest-eldo-kim/

[jessie04]

2. I believe thats a Federal offense.

Once he gets out, maybe he can re-apply to Harvard.

[freedumb]

3. well it is affluenza season after all

[lonestarnot]

4. What a selfish little asshole!

[notadmblnd]

5. Just proves that atttending Harvard doesn't make one smart.

[Berlum]

7. You can always tell a Harvard man...

...but you can't tell him much.

(Ancient joke around Our Fair City, Cambridge town, Central Square Style).

[Recursion]

8. When I was at BU we would say

"But you have to tell him slowly and use small words. "

[hobbit709]

6. Well, he did get out of the exam. And he won't have to worry about finding a job for a while.

[woolldog]

9. What going on with kids today?

In my day, when we wanted to get out of an exam we would do it the old fashioned way, pulling on the fire alarm of the building where the exam was taking place

[Blue_Tires]

10. Believe it or not, hoax bomb threats on the day of finals were once a relatively frequent occurrence

one specific chemistry class (University of Florida, maybe?) used to have that as a 'tradition' every semester....Someone would call in the threat, the campus police would come and check the room out and that gave students an extra 15 mins to cram.....

Of course I read about this stuff LONG before 9-11...

[haele]

11. Getting extra study time for finals old-school.

That's the way we did it in my day.

You have to wait until it's time to sit down for the exams before pulling that sort of stunt, though. The usual tactic was to have a buddy pull fire alarms, call bomb threats, or call in "family emergency" phone calls - the emergency calls only work if your family lives in the area and the instructor/professor might allow for make-ups in case of emergency.

When I heard about the Harvard stunt, the first thought was "some legacy admission or partier frosh looking down the barrel of that last F before getting tossed wasn't ready for the finals".

Haele