Yes, I understood that.. Was reacting to the article not the Poster. To me this is more of the anyone that knows their way around a computer is dangerous and bad. It particullarly bothers me that the term "hacking" was even applied to this. Firstly I disagree with the use of the term hackingto describe what I'd call "malicious hacking". Secondly this kid didn't hack anything.. he was given the (from the sounds of it) publicly available password to an admin account and then just used that account. No exploits, no reversing of hashes or exfiltrating SQL databases, nothing that looks anything like "hacking". Just braindead security in the presence of inquistive teens.

Not like the exploiting a privledge escalation to modify the plain text admin accounts file to add an entry for myself like I did back on my Highschools PDP-11. What did I do with the admin privledge.. nothing. Was just a lot of fun knowing I had it. But that at least you could call "hacking".