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I feel extremely lucky. I'm a part of gen Z, but I am from a very rural area (town pop 300, county 5000.) One day in 6th grade I was in math club and we needed to get to this fantasy football site that was blocked by our webfilter iPrism. Being curious enough, I just strip off the generated bit at the end to get to the admin sign-in page for the webmin. Being a curious kid, I just type in my network login credentials and boom it logs me right in. Couldn't fuckin' believe it, full admin privileges and all.

I never used it for anything evil per se, but I did unblock the football site we were told would be unblocked, and other sites that teachers were told would be unblocked but weren't. Problem was, when you signed in there was a nice box that said "Users Online" and showed their names. One day the DTC signed in as I was online and promptly the phone rang and I was told to take my hands away from the computer and walk to the office. I had to show her what I had done, and ended up being suspended from school computers for two weeks. I couldn't imagine the things I would be accused of if it happened today. Thank god I was a straight A student and favored by everyone in the community. I also had my Starcraft 2 collectors edition USB confiscated because I had the portable onion browser on it, and my friends called it the 'stick of freedom.' Imagine if the term darkweb was as highly villainized then as it is today.

I was lucky enough to start working with the school when I was 16 (now 20.) I remember the description of the look on the regional contact from the state when the DTC told him that the district had given me a key to the school and the equivalent of domain admin in our environment. Rightfully so, but I proved myself and my worth.

Bit long of a response for something so simple, and full of nostalgia as well. It's just a shame to see that curiosity and investigation is so heavily frowned upon.