My 12 year old started a forum last week with his friends.  I found out today that the school disctricts technology department has hacked the forum and copied all the messages.  Can someone tell me if this is against the law?  There had not been any issues with the forum, except the school thought the forum had been used during school hours, which it had not.  The clock for the forum needed to be reset - it was actually in the wrong time zone.

The vice principal of the school proudly told me so this morning.

This was just a forum that he decided to setup on his own time.  Non-school server - free service.  It was supposed to be  place for kids to get help on their homework and talk about stuff.  She told me that she had asked the school's IT department to hack in and make copies of all the messages - private ones included - so that she could make sure that no one was "bashing the teachers".  No other witnesses to the phone conversation, but I'm pretty sure she would admit to it in public because she doesn't seem to realize that there might be something wrong with what she did.  She is referring to some new "legislation" that gives her authority.

Thank you!  That's what I'm talking about!

Wow you should pat your kids back for even knowing how to do that (presuming he had to set up the FTP and PHP by himself, again presuming it was a PHP based board)

But also, that is pretty ****ed up. I would have a little chat with the tech guys. By little chat I mean some brass knuckles and their faces.

Ha Ha, you believed what she told you about hacking into your kids forum? I think people here need to go back to social engineering 101, hehe.   Any one can claim to hack into something private as a way to scare people into revealing things or to try and stop certain behavior.  Damn, hackers claim to do that to their girlfriends email accounts all the time just to get a confession.  Unless you see copies of the private messages I would not believe it. Also, I have never met anyone in a school IT department that could hack anything, unless it was something sleazy like a key logger on your kids computer. My cat has a better chance of "hacking" up a hair ball than a school IT department hacking a forum!

I think this is all the more reason to go in there and say we will take you to court.  If they actually did hack it, then you would get a true confession either way.

I really enjoy to read this forum. its a very interesting with kids. how can you told Can someone tell me if this is against the law? its a wrong. this is very nice funny forum.
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