Firefox Suspension Hoax Nearly Cripples High School

[Easy Rhino]

Most of you will remember the story about the high school student living in Pennsylvania that was supposedly given detention for using Firefox as a web browser in class. Well, that turned out to be a hoax. The student had altered the detention letter and submitted it to digg.com where the story received over 8,000 hits. Big Spring High School, the school the student attends in Pennsylvania, was bombarded with phone calls from the media and from people all across the globe voicing their displeasure. The calls persisted for two days and as a precaution the school called in IT security experts from Penn State to monitor the districts network. Lawyers were also consulted and finally a letter was posted by the principal of the school stating the letter was indeed a hoax. This is just one amazing example of how the Internet is shaping and changing the way we view and respond to current events.

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[mab1376]

If i was that kids principal, i'd beat his ass.

little bastard. is pretty funny though.

 

[Hawk1]

Hope the kid gets a couple of days off now, for the shit he caused.

 

[erocker]

Yeah, no doubt he's getting a detention now for sure.

 

[Exavier]

ironic, really.

 

[Chewy]

detention! break out the whips and paddles put him in the dungeon, but seriously I think he could be doomed at that school lol.

 

[Urbklr]

Lol....thats funny.....But he probably gets a extended Holiday break lol

 

[dsdsdk]

#2, if I was the law, i'd have him jailed - with big gay men....

 

[TheGuruStud]

#2, if I was the law, i'd have him jailed - with big gay men....

Depicting your own fantasies, are we?

 

[hotrippr]

His goddam parents should be billed for all the money the school has had to spend, parents are the most irresponsible people now a days. Or make them attend a year of parenting classes. Parents SUCK!

 

[WhiteLotus]

agree with you hotrippr, they should be made to pay for his actions.

 

[Urbklr]

I dont think parents are to blame for anything....How would they be able to stop him from doing what he did?? It was all him....not his parents

 

[WhiteLotus]

when i was that age i was scared to do that sort of thing in fear of gettinga belting from the elders. kids just dont respect people older than themselves anymore. the parents should put the fear of god in them. bring back smacking IMO

 

[sixor]

ah come one, the guy wanted to create a prank-hoax and he made it

not everyone comes out with story that could be a lot possible

 

[DanielF50]

Yeah, no doubt he's getting a detention now for sure.

lol!

Would you actually go to it?

Tbh, the kid that did this = funny bastard

Daniel

 

[shmig]

omg. What happened to being responsible for one's own actions? Columbine is suddenly Manson's fault, kid locks a college building and shoots everyone is because of society, I don't have enough money for the soda machine is because of the rich people....

Sure, the kid probably deserves some detention. A monetary penalty would never hold. Can you imagine if everything worked that way? You mess something up at work costing the business several thousands of dollars, should they take it out of your paycheck?

why not charge the media, they're the ones running up the phone bill. Honestly it sounds like the system worked, the fake news was filtered out though not as promptly as it should've been. Honestly you could even blame techpowerup for dispersing this without checking its legitemacy.

how many of you have a dog that won't sit or stop barking on command and you expect parents to have full control over their kids?

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

omg. What happened to being responsible for one's own actions? Columbine is suddenly Manson's fault, kid locks a college building and shoots everyone is because of society, I don't have enough money for the soda machine is because of the rich people....

Sure, the kid probably deserves some detention. A monetary penalty would never hold. Can you imagine if everything worked that way? You mess something up at work costing the business several thousands of dollars, should they take it out of your paycheck?

why not charge the media, they're the ones running up the phone bill. Honestly it sounds like the system worked, the fake news was filtered out though not as promptly as it should've been. Honestly you could even blame techpowerup for dispersing this without checking its legitemacy.

how many of you have a dog that won't sit or stop barking on command and you expect parents to have full control over their kids?

but a dog and a kid are 2 different things.

 

[Basard]

I'm not even going to say anything. I'll just get banned for it anyways!

 

[effmaster]

detention! break out the whips and paddles put him in the dungeon, but seriously I think he could be doomed at that school lol.

You know here in Alabama the Principals and Vice Principals are allowed to whip kids as long as the parents sign the agreement form. Its either that or detention Glad I never had to go to the front office for getting in trouble, at least I was able to do the right thing

 

[Lopez0101]

when i was that age i was scared to do that sort of thing in fear of gettinga belting from the elders. kids just dont respect people older than themselves anymore. the parents should put the fear of god in them. bring back smacking IMO

I doubt they had Firefox or that the internet was as huge as it is now when you were a kid.

 

[btarunr]

I'd expel the little snitch.

 

[Mussels]

I doubt they had Firefox or that the internet was as huge as it is now when you were a kid.

dad threw heaps of CD's at me when i was a kid for downloading pron on his 28.8k net connection. there was aaaalways something to do wrong online.

 

[btarunr]

dad threw heaps of CD's at me when i was a kid for downloading pron on his 28.8k net connection. there was aaaalways something to do wrong online.

just asking....heaps of CD's..for getting mad at you....or heaps of porn CD's.

 

[Mussels]

just asking....heaps of CD's..for getting mad at you....or heaps of porn CD's.

well it was a mix of CD's (with no porn) and floppy disks with porn on them.... CD's were expensive back then (dont even think we had a CD burner actually)

 

[btarunr]

well it was a mix of CD's (with no porn) and floppy disks with porn on them.... CD's were expensive back then (dont even think we had a CD burner actually)

wow. 28.8 kbps compare that to your 52 Mbps line now. Those days were the shite.

Here's how I was a pesky little bas****: I tried to OC one of my school's computers by tightening its memory timings, ended up crashing it. It wouldn't POST. Sneaked away before the admin could notice.