I was accused of "destroying" about 20 laptops (didn't boot) in 8th grade, because some other kids called me a "hacker". Later I realized that the system admini

I was accused of "destroying" about 20 laptops (didn't boot) in 8th grade, because some other kids called me a "hacker". Later I realized that the system administrators of the school had probably broken the bootloaders or partitions and were incapable of fixing it, so they blamed it on "hackers". All computers are full of surveillance software (Apple Remote Desktop), and there is a person constantly monitoring them (in the library and in classrooms). The internet can only be accessed through a firewall blocking content that really shouldn't be blocked. Pages like nmap.org are blocked under the phrase "hacking". Minecraft and any pages related to games (like wikis), or even slightly related, possibly completely unrelated, were blocked for for the reason "games", as if that would have stopped people from bringing them on a USB drive. At some point I had a school project about Minecraft and was told to research. I could, but that was because of my SSH socks proxy. It's sad that Google gets set to "safe mode" and deactivates HTTPS when accessing it from a specific IP address on the will of schools. However, that's great for WiFi sniffing and practicing the use of Ettercap. Don't ever accept a school-provided device without removing whatever OS or ROM there is on it and flashing/installing something new. Great choice of Arch Linux tethered to the phone (me too).