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by tickthokk 4081 days ago
I was a sophomore in 99. I was suspended for 3 days for "hacking" our keyboarding software. It was an old blue-screen'd DOS application. My friend and I figured out that F10 (or something) created a new folder. I made at least two, named "school grades" and "top porn stars" (Hey, I was a teenager). My friend did the same on his, but I think his was just "school grades" and "porn". They claimed that we were trying to alter our grades with those folders. We were A/B students, so that didn't really pan out.

Getting in trouble for it wasn't really a deterrent, but then again, I wasn't arrested. It probably would have stopped me from ever fiddling with a machine if I had been.

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I was in high school some time after you. I guess the change had already taken place because when I figured out how to get into the school's internal file structure I decided the risk wasn't worth exploring. I already had to fight the school admin to take an AP class as an underclassman (it is shameful that this was something that had to be fought over).