[DaiPlusPlus]

You joke, but something like that is a terrifying possibility considering where things like device-attestation is headed, combined with a lack of understanding of the technology, especially the local level (e.g. I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar - I don't expect a local provincial magistrate to be any more understanding-of-things than the fuming head at my school)

[Crosseye_Jack]

Oh, I joke because I know we are not that far away from it…

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-test...

[devmor]

I received a 3 day In School Suspension during the 7th grade for "breaking" one of the computers in the library/school computer lab. What I had done was change the color scheme of the task bar/windows.

Made even more ridiculous by the fact that the computers had ephemeral drives and would re-image when they were restarted.

[gmerc]

I wrote a dos cli simulator that simulated an empty PC and added it to autoexec.bat.

The lab teacher didn’t figure it out and wiped every desktop and reinstalled deleting everything on them.

I felt slightly bad. Slightly.

[devmor]

I wish I was that clever in school! The most actual mischievous thing I did was task schedule my boss's computer to change the desktop background to a photoshopped image of my head on Miley Cyrus' body every day on my last day at work.

[DaiPlusPlus]

In 6th Form we just played Doom95 and Quake in-between classes, in-spite of Group Policy

[shepherdjerred]

> I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar

Oh, so, _so_ many times

[genewitch]

I got expelled from high school for holding down shift while booting a windows machine, pre -98. Also suspended (the next year) because someone edited a teacher's gradebook in the "Mac lab" that he left open on an SE; of course the hacker that was expelled the year before obviously edited a single grade for someone they didn't know in a teacher they'd never met.

And I went to a Tech. Magnet. HS

[dmd]

In 1991 I got suspended from middle school for "putting a virus on the computer so it would not turn on".

(What I actually did was turn off the power switch on the power strip, rather than on the computer.)

[qingcharles]

In 1988 I got in terrible trouble for changing the BIOS settings and "destroying a computer" at my school. I had wheedled all the admin passwords out of the computer teacher's son and then used them to cause all sorts of "fun."

I think I had simply changed the computer so it booted from a different device, and it would have taken about five seconds to change it back...