[stordoff]

> I was nearly expelled for "hacking". They placed me on "academic probation" and threatened that if I did so much as forget my school ID at home one day, I would be immediately expelled without question. I was removed from my elective classes that involved computers and was disallowed from touching any computers at school.

Makes me glad that my school was reasonable when I got dragged into some "hacking" accusations. We were just made to work with the IT staff for a week (instead of going to classes), and that was the end of it.

The IT staff were surprising fine with it all (I think they realised A) that we weren't malicious, just bored and curious, and B) that it was their mistakes that gave people access (VNC server installed on all PCs with the password "vnc"; domain admin. account having the password of "school" etc.)