I had a similar thing happen to me. In high school our user names were first letter of first name and last four of last name. The passwords were the last four digits of our phone numbers.
I figured out that the teachers had the same schema for their accounts. They also published a directory with all the names and phone numbers of the students and teachers. So basically I tried accounts until I got a teacher who didn't change their password. Then I used their ability to place files in shared folders on the network to distribute Quake2 across the different servers. I told a friend and they told people and inevitably the school blamed me for it and kicked me out of all my electives that had computers in them. I was the first student to ever fail touch typing because I couldn't complete the class.
Standardized learning and I have never been friends. I'm glad they tought me the system doesn't work and to work/learn outside of it.
I don't think that's really similar at all. You circumvented password protection and used it to play games. I don't agree with the punishment, but you clearly broke the rules. I also don't see that as having anything whatsoever to do with standardized learning, just you wanting to play games at school.
It does fit with the trend of crazy overreactions to "computer hacking" though. If some kids figure out where you keep the keys to the gym and you catch them playing basketball after hours when it's supposed to be closed, you give them some detention, you don't prohibit them from ever entering the gym thereby causing them to miss school assemblies and fail classes. But do the equivalent thing on a computer and they assume you need the Hannibal Lecter treatment or else you'll whistle into a phone and bring forth Armageddon.
this isn't really the same, it sounds you logged ("hacked") into someone elses account by correctly guessing their password and then used their account for nefarious purposes
I figured out that the teachers had the same schema for their accounts. They also published a directory with all the names and phone numbers of the students and teachers. So basically I tried accounts until I got a teacher who didn't change their password. Then I used their ability to place files in shared folders on the network to distribute Quake2 across the different servers. I told a friend and they told people and inevitably the school blamed me for it and kicked me out of all my electives that had computers in them. I was the first student to ever fail touch typing because I couldn't complete the class.
Standardized learning and I have never been friends. I'm glad they tought me the system doesn't work and to work/learn outside of it.