With my rudimentary hacking abilities on the DOS computers I got on
the teachers computer while he was out of the room and changed the
directory structure to make it hard to log in. I put a series of six
folders inside each other with a funny question that had to be
answered to get to the next directory and the program he used to
draft houses as his side business was at the bottom of the the folder
password maze. To make sure it stayed a joke and did not cripple his
ability mo make money on the side while he should have been working I
included the answer as part of the prompt. I cannot remember all of
the password questions but I do remember that I asked who was the
teachers hero, answer: me. I had some Monty Python inspired jokes
about rabbits but I don't really remember what they were exactly.
Every time the computers were turned on he had to go through this
little ritual which would have been a one shot joke but as was my
custom I missed a couple of days of school after I put the joke in
place. Two days later when I came back to school the drafting coach
was waiting for me outside my locker looking pretty mad. I had in all
honesty forgotten about the joke and was wondering what his problem
was. He grabbed me hard by the shoulder and took marched me around
the corner and down the hall to the drafting room while cursing me
for messing with his computers. That is when I remembered. I asked
him why he didn't have someone fix it for him and he said no one he
asked knew how and that he had to enter my stupid passwords four times
now. I got on the computer and created a new directory outside of the
joke directory and had it copied out in a few second at which point
Coach relaxed and started joking about how he had promised to kill me
and had asked all of my friends where I was and he had even called my
house the first night but that was a mistake because no one ever
answered the phone at my house. Coached liked me pretty well so once
I had fixed up his computer all was forgiven. When I was finishing
and talking with him the other guys started coming in looking like
they were expecting my evisceration. After we got started a couple of
guys came over to ask me what happened and I told them that he just
asked me to fix it and I did. They told me that the day I was gone he
was cursing my name and threatening to kick me out of the class and
to have me suspended from school and other horrible stuff. Somehow
knowing that even though it was over now I was scared ex post facto
and laid particularly low for that day and the next.
