Security vulnerabilities I found in high school

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A middle school in Tunisia around 2004 used an unauthenticated chalkboard for announcements, leading to a prank where a student canceled classes for all seventh graders.
High school attendance was tracked using paper spreadsheets, allowing students to manipulate records by marking everyone absent, making individual absences untraceable.
A friend's university exam ritual involved checking WiFi icons for cheating, leading to the creation of a Windows app that hid the real WiFi status and later unintentionally became a command and control server for exam screenshots.
The author reflects on how curiosity led to exploring system vulnerabilities, from chalkboards to attendance sheets, and how this instinct remains valuable in questioning assumptions and system edges.

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