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September 7th, 2007, 08:42 GMT · By Alexandru Dumitru

Magna Cum Laude in Hacking

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Some people after graduating from a certain college come back and do something for it, others just forget they've ever been there. But that's not the case of Luis Castillo, Alum of the Texas A&M University. After finishing college, he decided that a nice thing to do is hack into the school's computer
system.

After he made his way into the system, he gained illegal access to data about 88.000 current and former students, faculty and staff members, as the Las Vegas Sun informs.
He had graduated with a computer science degree - why doesn't that surprise me? I've noticed that a lot of people that are frustrated through college tend to do something bad against their ex-college or against the ex-school. I don't know if this guy was an avenging nerd or something like that, but apparently he had no financial reason to do this, since he didn't access any bank account numbers, nor has he meddled with the schools remunerating system. I lot of hackers do things just because they can. Their actions sometimes boggle my mind.

Castillo has not been arrested and he is charged with felony reckless damage to a protected computer and could face as many as five years in prison if convicted, as seen on the same site mentioned above. To be honest, I don't get it - why would you risk prison to do something useless that isn't going to bring you any cash or any winnings at all!? It's not even something big - he hacked a University, it's not like schools are known to have the strongest security system or stuff like that. Instead of using his degree to help cyber-defense which is already threatened enough, in our days, he decided to go black-hat. He deserves whatever is coming to him, if you ask me!
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