| un-wired | | i got my first desk style pc when i was 19. got the internet a couple months later. it its indescribable how this changed my life. i became a computer addict with a quickness. hit me so hard too. wasnt too long before i was telling my friends and family no to things that i would normally do so i could sit in front of the computer. totally changed my life. and i still didnt know the awesomeness of a personal laptop computer, that no one in the whole world would ever turn on, but me.....two years ago my husband got me a shiny new lap top with his tax check. was the nicest thing anyone has ever given me as a gift. i loved my computer very much. it died a about 4 maybe 5 months ago new. i have just been lost with out it. i loved my personal laptop computer so much that i started doing all my writing on it instead of my journal books. now i did have most of it saved so i didnt lose my writing along with the computer but i still cant get to it cuz its all on disk and i have just now had the chance to find someone to let me use their computer once in a while. in the mean time all this time without a computer has made me remember how much i loved having a desk set up for... | |
| | Smart kid makes a dumb 'mistake' | | Armed with a Computers for dummies book a teenager hacked into the schools computer system.The teenager is 15, and was armed with the book computers for dummies. I had no idea that a book could give insight to hacking,[i]>According to search warrant documents filed Feb. 26 in Outagamie County Circuit Court, the district called in a vendor to make repairs and they were able to determine the district's computers were accessed from an outside computer and traced the source to the 15-year-old's home. <[/i]http://www.sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/SHE0101/80327081/1973The teenager faces one charge of violating Wisconsin's computer statute, and school disciplinary action...What people don't realize is that computer forensics has become a science of its own and unless you really know what you are doing there is no way to erase it.What gets me if he is self taught at this, he is a smart kid who made a dumb mistake...and while it cost the school district thousands of dollars to fix it, it showed them where the security loops were in their systeymIt reminds me back several years ago where a teenager... | |
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