In an astonishing display of technological ignorance, the administrators of Kurtztown High School in Pennsylvania filed charges in May against over a dozen students for “Computer Trespass” of the iBooks they were issued by the school board. Apparently, the sum of what these miscreants did was turning off the port blocking software on the laptops allowing them to freely install notoriously dangerous applications like iChat; and disabling Apple Remote Access, to prevent being spied on by the administration. By doing so, goes the claims, these students are felons. On May 31, the local PD sent around letters to the parents demanding they bring their kids– aged 14 to 17– in for fingerprinting and identification.
Already the story has raised the ire of the Internet, with a Web site going up in protest: CutUsABreak.Org
See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/09/kutztown.hackers.ap
