Sunday, October 6, 2013

Students finds ways to thwart school iPad security

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — A day after Center Grove handed out more than 2,000 iPads to high school students, hundreds of the teens found a way to get around the devices' locks.

Teachers and administrators had programmed the iPads so that they were the only ones who controlled what was on them. But hours after getting them, between 300 and 400 students found ways to reprogram the iPads so they could download games and apps for social media sites, technology director Julie Bohnenkamp said.

As soon as the school learned what students were doing, teachers inspected each student's iPad, and the technology department had to reset the hundreds of tablets that had been altered by the students, Bohnenkamp told the...

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