Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: QWERTY is not creative

Episode Date: April 11, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. What's your password on your computer? You don't want to tell me? I think I can figure it out. I don't know. What are the most common passwords that they find? Well, of course, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Of course, password.

1, 3, 4, 5. 5, 6, 7, 8. Q, W, E, R, T, Y is the top 5 of the worst past. Passwords you can use, Quarty? Why would you use that? And then all the numbers, 1234, baseball, dragon, football, monkey. Let me in.

ABC, 123, one, one, one, one, one, one. Nobody ever get that. Mustang, Access, Shadow, Master. Superman, 696, 9, 69, 69, 69, 12, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, Batman, trust no, number one. Don't get it. Why would you use Quarty?

Q-W-E-R-T-Y If you are using Q-R-D-R-E-R-T-Y, as a password, stop it. Change it right now. I don't care what else you do today. Change QWERTY. No one should use that word for anything. Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

What's that mean? Quarty. It's a medical condition. Yes, I have Q-R-E. Can I get some cream for it? I'll just drink this. You'll be fine. Qu-W-E-R-T-Y.

Okay. Anyway, I digress. So then we have schools all over the country looking to find children's, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, social media accounts. We want your passwords. We want to know what you're on. We want to be able to know what you're doing. You can't cyber bully anyone. You kids, we want all your stuff.

Well, let me get this story out of Tampa, Florida. Tampa Bay, actually. it's up in Hernando County, I think. That's still, that might be Pascoe County, Holiday. Holiday, Florida. A little north of Tampa Bay. North of Tampa. Still in the Tampa Bay Metroplex.

And this kid takes the teacher's password from he calls it a laptop. I guess the teacher just has a laptop sitting on the desk one day when the teacher's out and figures out the password, gets in, and puts, puts a new screensaver of two guys kissing, some gays, a gay couple kissing on the screen as a screensaver. And things will be funny. Apparently, they're not too happy about it. Here's the news report. WFTS, Tampa, ABC Action News on a Tampa Bay with reporter,

Gina Pesetti. Yeah, Jameson, I spoke to the mother and the student. They live in this house behind me. He admits to using an administrative password to gain access to the school's computer system but says it was a mistake. Right. I wasn't really thinking. I was just kind of really annoyed at the teacher that day. The reason why Dominic Green said he did what he did.

I went on his laptop by sharing his screen and I took a picture off of Google and put it on his laptop and blew it up. That way, when he got on the laptop, there'd be a picture of something gross. Dominic says he clicked on the F-Cat files by accident and authorities have confirmed the test was not. not compromised. However, authorities feel he should face consequences for his actions. And even though somebody may say he's teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might... Stop right there. The school system says it...

Okay. We'll finish up the report, but that ticks me off. Okay? Mr. Sheriff, spokesman, who knows what he would have done? We're not talking about future crimes. Mr. Police Officer, you're there to tell us what happened and take care and follow the law, not what might have happened. Ooh, that makes me angry. I'm sorry, go ahead.

The school system says they are doing what they can to address the situation, so this doesn't happen again. Our IT department is taking the passwords to all computers in every school, and they're maintaining the passwords. They are the only ones who can remote into the servers. Dominic's mom said, although. Though her son had been disciplined for doing this back in January, she feels the punishment is too harsh. The school was aware of this. I feel like that they dropped the ball. I, you know, Dominic should be.

I know it. And I accept that. He accepts that. We both realize that he made a mistake. Okay. Did it before. Did it again. We both know he made a mistake and it's okay.

But I think the school dropped the ball. They knew that it was possible for these kids to get into their laptops and with their passwords. and they didn't do anything about it, except, I don't know, maybe tell them, don't do that. He knew better. He even said he knew better. He was just mad. Plus, he knew better yet the substitute teacher saw him do it. Not that smart.

Maybe a little bit too smart for his britches, as my grandmother used to say, a little bit too smart for your britches. Don't be doing that. So, first of all, we're just leaving laptops on the desk. Yeah, just leave there. Don't worry about it. Fine. The teacher's gone that day. Just leave a little sit there.

No problem. I get that. I really kind of do, actually, when I'm saying it out loud. It makes sense that they would just leave it there to work laptop. Because then we'll hear the stories of the teacher. They took the school laptop home, what they weren't supposed to do. And now we're finding pornography pictures on it. So leave it at the school.

I'm okay with that. Leave it there. But the kid gets in, changes a picture, clicks on the F cap, but doesn't do anything. That was an accident. Maybe I buy that.

Maybe I buy, he clicked out of them, thought twice about that. I better not be doing that. And gets out of it. You're going to be charged with a felony? Third degree felony? Come on.

I don't know that I agree with that. He's going to a different school now. I guess it's a crime. You should pay for what he does. I get it. Is it a felony what he did? I guess technically it is. That's what they're saying.

Technically, it's a felony, right? So you got to do what you got to do. I get it. That's what they say. The policeman, though, kind of sheriff Chris Naco. that kind of ticks me off. Who knows what he would have done? Uh-huh.

Well, we just know what he did, Sheriff. He didn't do what he might have done. He might have stolen the laptop and ran away with it. He might have put another picture on there. He might have not done anything. who knows what he would have done is exactly the question that you don't need to be asking. Who knows what he would have done? How about you just say, hey, this is what the kid did and would take care of that?

Which is what they're, you know, the third degree felony? Sorry, kid. You knew better. And he guessed the password because the password was the teacher's last name. Hello? I'm a schoolteacher in middle school that doesn't know anything about computers, but all these kids do and have everything. But I'll just use my last name as the password because that's who I am. Okay.