My best hack is a longer story that involved getting global access to the entire school district's network, which was a years-long exploit involving some clever

My best hack is a longer story that involved getting global access to the entire school district's network, which was a years-long exploit involving some clever brute forcing and some lucky finds along the way. My favorite was writing a fake/clone Windows 2000 login screen in Visual Basic and installing it on select library computers. It would capture the usernames and password and upload it to an FTP server. The login screen was pixel perfect. My partner in crime took it too far one night and enabled the "snow day" version of the district website homepage for a few hours in the early morning. Half the kids didn't show up to school the next day. Some people insisted the website said snow day at one point but nobody could prove it. I was 16 or 17 but thankfully I had the good sense to follow advice I'd heard from an older mentor: "don't do any harm because that's when someone starts investigating and you get caught"