Being the geek that i am i look at the source of just about every page i visit. So a while back I was taking an extra credit test onlin for my English class. I looked at the code and expected to find some cheap js that would put the amswers right in my hand. But no! the coding was near suberb when i noticed 1 flaw. an "@" sign. Smack dab in the middle of an email address. SO what do i do. I saved the document to my computer, changed the email to mine and retook the test submitting all the answers as "A". To good to be true right? Wrong! i checked my email and there is a text email with all the answers i put in and an X if it was wrong and nothing if that number was right.... Take the test 3 times and You have all the answers to 75 questions in 5 minutes and can answer the real test tin another 2 min... compared to the hr it usually took me. Tonight in the shower i realized i could create a php for with the 1 answer sheet change my percentage and change the from address to the companies and it looks 100% genuine. of course i didn't because thats not right. I hacked a 75 question test and got my selt 10 extra points on a test in under 15 minutes.
Now what did my teacher pay for it (it could've been the school)
$3,800...

when a 15 year old can crack and completly take advantage of a $4000 software suite in und 15 minutes there is something wrong.

Now I ask the question... What did we pay for... a POS (adjective) POS(noun) thats what

at least I learned my parts of speach....
lol

You could also argue that he's already learned much more than his teachers obviously have, just in a different subject.

It's alllll relative. A little on the harsh side though Greg, you don't even know his school's policy on cheating. Obviously nothing good will come from it, but you don't know what...

sorry, should i have praised his efforts?

conartists, you are a smart cookie ..

I don't think you did anything wrong. Learning is not a one-way street and your case is a lesson for the teacher to learn. You didn't do the test the way it was meant to be but hey you definitely learned something ... even how to use php .. haha

It would be a poor school if they punish students for being investigating and study source codes. IMO being keen on experimenting is an higher value than just routinously doing what you are being told to do.

After the term is over walk up to the teacher and hand them a sheet of paper with how to crack they're expensive software.

Well at least they didn't put a SQL statement into a querystring for all the world to see like Oklahoma's Dept. Of Corrections did.

Read more here: Oklahoma Leaks Sensitive Data

yeah same with google... I heard they invested in a multi million dollar database system that ran slower the mysql... so they dropped it