Los Angeles Schools Halt IPad Program After Students Hack Them

That's $1 billion well spent, eh?

A $1 billion program to distribute iPads to students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was under increased scrutiny Wednesday after reports that some devices were hacked for non-school-related purposes.

KNX 1070?s Pete Demetriou reports hundreds of kids at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and two other campuses breached the security locks within a week of receiving the tablets.

Students at Roosevelt, Westchester High, and the Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills disabled security measures on their iPads to access Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other unauthorized sites, according to the Daily News.

Software installed on the devices by the district locked down the iPads and alerted officials to potential tampering, the Daily News reported.

Comments

[Carolynp]

Seriously? Give the kids medals for hacking them. And fire the morons who didn't think the kids would be able to hack them.

[Scarecrow Repair]

I sometimes think the only mandated school class should be in how to say "Come back with a warrant", "Piss off, copper", "Am I being detained?" and generally "No". But part of the fantasy is that any kid who refuses to take the class would get an A, and that would only work for the first one.

These kids would pass with flying colors.