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But those barriers proved easily surmountable: The administrative password that allowed students to reconfigure computers and obtain unrestricted internet access was easy to obtain. A shortened version of the school's street address, the password was taped to the backs of the computers.
The password got passed around and students began downloading such forbidden programs as the popular iChat instant-messaging tool.
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Buahaha! We did exactly the same thing when I was in high school! One guy figured out the password (it was saved in a text file on one of the teachers' directories...) and it got passed around all over the place. Except that we weren't dumb enough to get caught. All we did was install a couple of games on every single computer
(StarCraft, Command&Conquer: Renegade, some version of GTA [there's zillions of them now it seems and I don't like any of them anyway...], and Quake 3). Oh yeah, we also installed Half-Life (the first one). And to think this was only two and a half years ago... heh (been out of highschool for that long already).
Should they be punished? In my opinion, yes, because they were dumb enough to get caught.