A few weeks ago, my high school was ranked 850-somethingth in Newsweek's Top 1000 High Schools. This week we find out that two--possibly more--students at that high school were caught hacking into the school's computer system and changing their grades. And these were honor students, mind you. (Well, at least I assume they would have still been honor students without the grade changing.) Back in my day students weren't allowed to walk at graduation because they were caught drinking on their parents' boat (true story), but nothing like this.

My favorite part of the story:

Paola is a gifted student, Haupt said, and very knowledgeable about computers. So knowledgeable, he and others figured out the password to the grading system, which was simply the teacher’s identification number coupled with the class code, according to Haupt.

“It was just a guess,” he said. “They didn’t crack a code to pass national security.”

Ah yes, all the technology in the world does you no good if you can't come up with a good password. Next we'll learn that the password was written next to the keyboard.