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galen · 3565 days ago · link · · parent · post: Florida teen charged with felony hacking for using password his teacher showed him
Wow, this sounds eerily similar to something I got in trouble for back in middle school. A fellow student saved his email password in the browser on our class's shared computer, so I changed his profile picture and deleted the saved password. For a while no one knew who had done it, and it was basically a non-issue, but after I bragged to an acquaintance and he ratted me out, the student whose account I'd tampered with went apeshit. Eventually, after a couple tearful meetings with the heads of school, I had to write a paper about penalties for "impersonating" someone online in Texas. I still think the brouhaha and ensuing punishment were bullshit, although I regret not just telling the other kid not to save his information so publicly.