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nephrite | 3 years ago

> having a bookmark for "Hacker News"

I was punished in school for having NetHack source code in my home dir. And it was not because it was a game but because it allegedly was a hacking tool.

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MichaelCollins|3 years ago

In highschool I was sent to detention and almost suspended because a study hall teacher overheard me talking about the "black market" feature of an roleplaying game I was writing on my graphing calculator. It took an hour of trying to explain TI-BASIC to my principle (and I think some angry phonecalls from my mother, a teacher in that district) before they relented with the insane mafioso accusations.

codethief|3 years ago

This reminds me of an article (re-)posted recently here on HN:

https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequa...

wen_1k_btc|3 years ago

the principal's your pal

andrepd|3 years ago

At least you didn't have Dopewars installed!

Bakary|3 years ago

"No, wait, I can explain! You see, I'm just a tourist in search of an amulet..."

westmeal|3 years ago

At least they didn't sanction you for eating corpses...