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Not the same thing but in Middle School we used our "id numbers" for passwords everywhere. They were also helpfully printed on all of our schedules which a number of students simply slid into the front see-through plastic sleeve on their binders making it trivial to get nearly anyone's password. I wanted to see if there was a pattern to the id numbers (to see if given some info I could guess the id number) so I started collecting them passively. Just writing down the name of the student and their id number and storing them all in a program called HyperStudio (This was like powerpoint for mac but much more kid friendly and easier scripting) which I hid behind a number of hidden buttons on a project that looked legit (No clue why I did this, I could have just stored them in a text file but I wanted to play with HS some more and hiding them felt more fun). I never got to the point that I could discern any pattern because I very stupidly read off a student's id number when they pissed me off for shock value (I was in middle school, cut me a break) and they told the teacher and by the end of the day I was sitting in the principal's office. I got in a bit of trouble and lost computer access for the rest of the year (that really sucked) but I'm just glad it didn't happen in today's climate where I probably could have been charged with computer hacking/fraud charges. Like elwell I never once considered using it for malicious reasons and honestly I only logged into 1-2 accounts to confirm they worked but the vast majority I had no interest in looking at their network share folder (They were just full of a bunch of school assignments after all). Looking back it was extremely stupid and could have resulted in much worse consequences. That said I stand by my opinion at the time that they were blowing it WAY out of proportion and used the word "hacked" a number of times when really all I did was observe data that students were exposing right on the outside of their binders. I only lost computer access because I stored the numbers on a computer which to me at the time and now seems like some pretty stupid reasoning but whatever.


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