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just to check out the grades of his classmates and friends.
Straits times
Student hacks into Raffles JC PCs
A BRIGHT young Chinese undergraduate on a scholarship to study here was accused on Friday of hacking into computers at his alma mater, Raffles Junior College (RJC).
According to Subordinate Court documents, 21-year-old Zhao Ke is alleged to have illegally accessed a 'system administrator' account this March.
Using this account, he then installed a hacking program called 'Lanhelper' to steal information from computers used by RJC teachers.
System administrator accounts are super accounts that offer the user extra privileges, such as installing programs that a computer's security programs would usually block.
For his actions, Zhao, who said he was now at the National University of Singapore with a scholarship to do a double degree in electrical engineering and economics, was charged with 12 various counts under the Computer Misuse Act.
The prosecution intends to go ahead on two of the 12 charges, one for illegal access and the other for illegal data modification. The remaining 10 will be taken into account during sentencing.
If Zhao is found guilty - and he told the court he intended to plead guilty to the charges - he is looking at up to $15,000 in fines and up to five years in jail for the two offences. His case will be heard next Friday, and he was granted $8,000 bail.
However, it was not clear last night if Zhao had been released. By the time the bail centre closed last night, Zhao had not left the premises. His bail guarantor had also told the court that he was not sure he would put up bail.FOR WAD?!? U wan noe the grades of frens just A-S-K. Go this kind of stupid things get urself into trouble.
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Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:The best is to put him under probation and revoke his scholarship. Anything more severe, I think may trigger a revenge mindset in him and cause more damage.
i see no reason not to jail him and revoke actually. not sure about the expel.
I mean not like he didn't commit the thing and as mentioned all got jail sentences, no reason to alleviate. As some CJ said b4 justice must be seen to be done also.
not sure if they should recover costs of scholarship invested from him though.
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Originally posted by hisoka:i see no reason not to jail him and revoke actually. not sure about the expel.
I mean not like he didn't commit the thing and as mentioned all got jail sentences, no reason to alleviate. As some CJ said b4 justice must be seen to be done also.
not sure if they should recover costs of scholarship invested from him though.Revoke is OK, but jail? Maybe not, given our ties with China. China will make a big hoohaa out of it. Remember the pei du ma ma incident?
Anyway, he got the scholarship because he worked for it, not through cheating (I give him the benefit of doubt), so I don't think it would be nice to recover the costs of scholarship from him. Revoking it is enough, and put him under probation.
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