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by dmd 976 days ago
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.)

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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...