Hacker boy

One time in middle school my kindle e reader was confiscated because according to the administrator who took it, I was using it to attempt to "hack in to the school". In order for me to have an electronic device in the school in the first place I had to leave it in the office for a week so their security team could determine that it wasn't a threat, after which they put a shitty paper sticker directly on the back of the device that allowed me to use it to read my books at lunch or between classes.

One day I was at lunch and was reading while waiting for my friends to get there. I was in the settings menu for some reason, probably to change the screen brightness or text size. The vice principal, who was a towering 300 lb ex football player, loomed over me and demanded to see the device. He then claimed that because I was trying to access the wifi network of the school (I wasn't, he just saw wifi settings as an option in the general settings menu I had open) that I must be attempting to hack the network, so he took the device and berated me in front of a room full of my peers, for attempting to read at a school. It took my dad yelling in this guys face before they gave me back the basic first gen e reader barely capable of displaying black and white text.

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