Eighth-grader charged with felony for shoulder-surfing teacher’s password

In normal countries when you forgot the key in the ignition and your car gets stolen as as consequence, the law comes down hard on the thief. And then the law comes down on you. To borrow Smokey Bear's slogan it's because "Only YOU can prevent crime of opportunity!"

In normal countries, such things as criminal energy expended and severity of the crime also factor into the size of punishment, but that isn't the point here; the point is that through their weak security practices the administration fosters a criminogenic environment.

Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362307