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Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6> a person who committed the offense before his eighteenth birthday, but is over twenty-one on the date formal charges are filed, may be prosecuted as an adult.... This is true even where the government could have charged the juvenile prior to his twenty-first birthday, but did not.
However, the statute of limitations for CFAA violations is 2 years [1 p. 2] so this might not apply. If somehow they can still go after him at 21, this post could play a part in evidence for performing the hack (I truly hope not).
0: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/l...
1: https://www.goodwinlaw.com/-/media/files/publications/10_01-...
I do wonder if they could've secured themselves with VPN and "untraceable" anonymous emails (e.g. asking for a guarantee that they won't be sued/charged), although the teenage bragging rights would've been too tempting.
I wonder if it was possible for the hacker to ask a lawyer to represent them anonymously and make a contract, something like the district promises not to file criminal charges, and if they violate this deal they will have to pay a lot of money...
I found more severe vulnerabilities including being able to lift home addresses of students by querying an unprotected endpoint. Didn’t get in trouble for this one, and reported it promptly to the IT administrator.
Looks like they paid out millions in bounty in 2020:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackerones-2020-top-10-public-bug-bounty-programs/https://statisticalatlas.com/school-district/Illinois/Townsh...
For example, I use AutoHotkey to implement my JKLmouse program, which turns certain keyboard events into mouse movement for precise control. It's similar to the MouseKeys that comes with Windows, but made for laptop keyboards without numeric keypads.
And yes, you could definitely do that Minesweeper hack in AutoHotkey! :-)
https://github.com/geary/jklmouse/tree/master/AutoHotkey/Sou...
One thing to note is that I wrote this to use on my ThinkPads, which have physical mouse buttons. On a laptop where the touchpad itself is the mouse button, it may be difficult to avoid nudging the mouse position when you click.
I've been thinking about adding support for using other keys as "mouse buttons", but haven't done anything about it yet.
I remember getting yelled at for changing the display resolution and typing a few commands in DOS to change file names quickly.
Computers were never up to date of course, we had cathodic displays up to 2010.
https://superuser.com/questions/1467313/mouse-pointer-moving...
On the other hand me and a few of my friends were the only computer literate people in the school and were tasked with removing it in the end.
But still, it was fun seeing a whole class of computers have an ambulance run at the bottom of the screen with the poor beeper emulating the siren.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_(computer_virus)
“Your faith in the legal system is appalling.”
It don't think they expect that people would rewrite their old scripts. That is actually silly to consider. Even with console vs terminal, they are concerned of backward compatibility and leaving it as is:
> Windows Console will continue to ship within Windows for decades to come in order to ensure backward compatibility with the many millions of existing/legacy command-line scripts, apps, and tools
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
If you want to understand the IoT better, I can recommend this article: https://girlsplaining.substack.com/p/internet-of-things-and-...
Anyway, it was fun to learn about the "obscure ARC architecture" used by the IoT devices in question. Unpacked to "Argonaut RISC Core", that made me curious enough to look it up since I hadn't heard of it. And sure enough, it was related to Argonaut as in "the UK game developers founded by Jez San" [1]. That's a really interesting development! :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synopsys#ARC_International
Mind you, this was not in a clean room and i tried to be as quick as possible to not allow too much dust into the case..
Here's an online article, might even be the same drive (this was a external WD drive, not sure about the capacity, i think 500GB or 1TB): https://dataanalyzers.com/external-hard-drive-western-digita...
