Comment by chrisseaton
4 years ago
> Pranks can be an outlet for creativity and learning that might not otherwise happen.
Great.
But do it with your own things then. Don't bother anyone else or touch anyone else's things.
And no worker should ever have to do any work (such as reset a computer system) because of your prank. Workers have enough work to do and enough hassles in their lives.
> But do it with your own things then. Don't bother anyone else or touch anyone else's things.
You're really oversimplifying here. Something tells me this highschooler doesn't personally own the breadth of commercial equipment that he hacked for this prank.
> And no worker should ever have to do any work (such as reset a computer system) because of your prank. Workers have enough work to do and enough hassles in their lives.
Okay, let's all be worker robots :)
> Something tells me this highschooler doesn't personally own the breadth of commercial equipment that he hacked for this prank.
So they shouldn't have done it.
> Okay, let's all be worker robots :)
It's not about what you want to do. It's about what some low-paid worker who has to clean up after you thinks. Or some other student inconvenienced by your prank thinks.
If you're impacting on someone else's life then you're in the wrong!
Who had to clean up here? Author cleaned up their own problem and literally delivered a detailed security report on how to fix the issue (not the damage done by the prank, which was zero).
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