“I have a huge test on a book tomorrow I haven’t read and its not on spark notes (sic throughout).”
Text message of Tanvar Singh to his friend, Omar Shahid Khan. The two were charged with, among other things, breaking and entering their school, Tesoro High, to obtain copies of an AP English exam and the Scantron answer key.The two are also charged with earlier thefts of the AP Statistics and AP American Government and Economics exams as well as theft of AP Physics extra credit stamps. In addition, Mr. Khan is charged with installing spyware on the registrar’s computer, spyware that allowed them to change his grades and 12 of those of his friends from C’s, D’s, and F’s to to A’s and A-’s. Khan also changed some of his B+ grades to A’s.
One student referred to the spyware allegations as “really cool,” and opined, ”Maybe they were just doing this to help their friends.”
as reported in Rebecca Cathcart, “Hacking Case Jolts Affluent California High School,” New York Times, June 24, 2008, p. A18.
Details are taken from their felony indictment, Orange County.
