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American here. Ditto (source: kicked out of high school and college for violation of TOS^H^H^H Acceptable Use Policy)

Out of curiosity, what did you do that was so bad as to get you kicked out of school twice?

It doesn't even have to be bad. I was very nearly kicked out of my middle school just for booting from (!) my own live Linux USB drive on a school computer.

In High school I discovered the admin's secret account password was "god". (1995 maybe? I was 15)

In college (1997? I was 17) I downloaded the source code of the unix client for back orifice. I read some of the source because I was interested in socket programming and reading Unix Network Programming. I compiled it, and deleted it without running it.

They were on edge because "god" from high school called to warn them about me.

Did the admin literally watch Hackers and use that password as a goof

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