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He didn't harm anyone. He even had opportunity to do malicious things like change grades or steal standardized tests, and did not. It was all just for kicks.

Downvote me if you will but I truly support what this kid did. Maybe I'm still immature, or maybe I see a lot of him in me, but I honestly think it's hilarious and I don't care what lessons he is or isn't learning out of this ordeal.

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Well technically, if the teacher was found with pornography on his school computer and the school believed he downloaded it, he could certainly have been fired, and that may well have been the intention of the kid. I am not saying he should go to jail or anything heavy handed like that but a punishment is certainly relevant.

But in general, we are creating sociopaths if we do not set a moral barrier in hacking into other people machines.

  > he could certainly have been fired

not only fired. In Australia, teachers must be centrally registered to enter the classroom. An accusation such as this which was actually upheld would disqualify them from gaining registration across Australia, effectively nuking their career from orbit.

I assume similar registration requirements exist in the US.

I think they've actually just conflated "two men kissing" with "pornography". This is Florida, which I equate with "geriatric and bigoted".

That's a boatload of 'ifs' and 'coulds'.

So planting an obscene/pornographic image isn't malicious by your standards. Where do you draw the line? That is why rules exist for a reason.

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