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   Scott Jann (zenwheel@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 01:49:34 JST Scott Jann

   I just got an email from my son’s teacher saying she had to take his chromebook away because he’s found a way to disable the software the school district uses to monitor their chromebook use

   I also learned his school had to stop using some quiz software because he taught all his friends to go into the web inspector and cheat

   As a parent, am I suppose to be upset with this? Because a 12yo going on github and looking for backdoors in software shows real initiative... I am awfully proud

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 01:49:34 JST Paul Sutton

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     @zenwheel

     Indeed, he should be asked to write about what he has done and how the system could potentially be improved, ohh and signed on to a bug bounty programme so he can earn money finding other bugs in the system.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 19:15:25 JST tyil

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     @zenwheel@mastodon.social Be upset at the teacher, he's only upset at your son because your son is smarter than him after all. I'd encourage your son by giving him his own (cheap) laptop see he can fuck around without the dumb teachers trying to hold him back.

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:12:42 JST Paul Sutton

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     • RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur

     @CWilbur @zenwheel

     I am on your side with this, as if someone finds a problem with the system, they can help rather than be punished.

     I was at college back in the late DOS days, the non networked computers would not allow me to type shell in to gwbased, however the networked computers would allow me to type shell and get a dos prompt, I did report the issue as I saw a potential for abuse.

     I was 17/18 at the time, so perhaps being a little older gave me that extra sensibility to report, a lot of people would have found a way to probably exploit the system.

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     RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur (cwilbur@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:12:43 JST RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur

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     • Paul Sutton

     @zleap @zenwheel Someone above said with great power comes great responsibility. Parent or teacher, perhaps both, should assign some extra tasks as befits his abilities. And also that he learns the materials, because that’s just as important as computer skills.