Stories like this terrify me, particularly because I got away with much crazier stuff in high school. In my robotics club, I witnessed a freshman nmap our entire school's network to find the control panel for the school's CCTV cameras. It was completely unprotected, no password or anything. It's hard to say who's at fault for stuff like this, but pushing the blame onto kids seems like an unfortunately common practice nowadays.
It's the same as ransomware or whatever else: if they admit their systems are insecure then people will realize that they have massive "security debt" that they can never repay.
Ransomware, as terrible as it is, has really put a gun to the head of Managers and Luddites alike that don't think security is something they need to bother with. It's always the first corner to be cut and the last debt to be repaid, if ever. I almost always feel a sense of schadenfreude when a company with terrible security practices gets hit with ransomware costing them millions. I always imagine that one engineer sitting there thinking to themselves "told you so", while casually browsing for a new job.
> The runner-up was born to be homecoming queen; her mama was probably a homecoming queen. She’s a cheerleader, blonde and sweet and dingy.
Wow. OMG. The sense of entitlement here.
This is an absolutely insane story. 124 votes in 20 minutes does /seem/ impossible for someone to pull off via manual input entry.