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> 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).


Seems like it disrupts a class to me? What about the students who don't want to have their class disrupted? What about the teacher who has to catch up later?

What if these people don't want your sense of humour imposed on them?

I think it's ethically wrong.


>One of our top priorities was to avoid disrupting classes, meaning we could only pull off the prank before school started, during passing periods, or after school.


Their own video literally shows a class of people watching it happen.


I'm not sure what you think happens 5 minutes before the end of class on a Friday, but it isn't diligent learning.




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