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Nothing makes teenagers want to do something so badly as being told they can't. Attempting to bypass school computer security was one of my earliest forays into understanding computers.

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Nothing makes teenagers want to do something so badly as being told they can't.

Not only teenagers. I was 7 or 8 (~1990) when my dad told me not to use our home PC without his supervision and under no circumstances should I start Norton Commander. The next day when he was at work, I booted the PC, started Norton Commander (I observed that he typed 'nc'), and tried every possible function that I could find ;).

same. we had a lot of content restrictions on my home network growing up, so i learned about tor and isolinux to get past them. tor was actually overkill in this case, but it was still fun.

Ha, this sounds almost like me, except it was SpinRite. I was given my own computer to mess up soon after :)

As a teenager can confirm many hours are spent bypassing school security, but not on chromebooks. They are far to easily locked down with secure boot, and the only way to get past that are hardware changes, which very few people are willing to do.

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