Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking” | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Slip an “adult” magazine into a prudish teacher’s desk? Prank.
Change the background image of their computer? Felony hacking.

A 14-year-old eighth grader in Florida, Domanik Green, has been charged with a felony for “hacking” his teacher’s computer. The “hacking” in this instance was using a widely known password to change the desktop background of his teacher’s computer with an image of two men kissing.

Source: Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking” | Electronic Frontier Foundation