The writer, who used a pseudonym, claimed he easily broke into the accounts using a program that captures computer keystrokes.
Thnk about it for a second. You don't install a keylogger on a server and then capture logins from students from remote machines
Not so. The University I go to has a number of library and lab machines that people log in to all the time. He easily could have done that, and I'm sure he did - installing keyloggers on laptops is a much more difficult task and is not "hacking", it's simply being a dick and definitely illegal. However, there is NOTHING in the article to suggest that's what happened. It's a simple case of a guy figuring out how to install a keylogger and how to read swipe cards. That's it. It says nowhere that he accessed their accounts or did anything past getting their account usernames and passwords.
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas