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By Senior Editor John H. Farr
There's a bizarre little item posted yesterday at the Richmond Times-Dispatch about those Henrico County students and their much-publicized iBooks. It seems that 57 students have been suspended for, um -- well, you'd better read on. The crime is "subverting the computers' operating systems." Evidently the school system had requested changes to the software that prevented students from accessing certain (unnamed) functions. We can only surmise that once the iBooks came back from Apple with these modifications in place, dozens of clever students figured out how to get around the restrictions and have now been suspended for their ingenuity. Comments: Where should we start? What seems to frighten school officials most is students being able to use computers to find, copy, and distribute pictures of naked people doing unspeakable things, so we suppose that's what's involved here. Frankly, we have never heard of anyone "subverting" an OS, but live and learn. We are frustrated that the Times-Dispatch described the reasons for the suspensions so obliquely, especially because the vagueness may cause readers to imagine even worse things than whatever did transpire. Probably they are afraid that students who haven't figured out how to "subvert" their iBooks would gain this knowledge if readers could figure out what the heck they were talking about. We say open up the floodgates and let freedom ring.
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