Ryan's Journal

I remember the first time I ever broke into a computer system. It was in the tenth grade. The teacher was Maggie Dean, the class was whatever tenth grade English was called; I think we read Raisin in the Sun. We had a student teacher, Heather née Minton, who was slated to be married at the end of that term but for some reason missed her dream Christmas wedding (sorry Miss Minton). She let me sit down at the teacher's computer and attempt to break-in, as if it were some challenge I could never overcome.

Teachers use their initials as passwords. Mrs. Dean's middle name started with an A, something I learned on my first guess, mad. Any other teachers' passwords I knew fit the same pattern.

Too bad Miss Minton felt morally obligated to tell Mrs. Dean what I'd done. Although I don't think the password changed, they didn't let me near the computer again.

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