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This is along the lines of my early days learning about computers at school. I saw executables were filled with weird junk when looked at in a text viewer. So I'd load a little of that junk in a file and add

CRITICAL DISK ERROR. TURN OFF SYSTEM TO AVOID CATASTROPHIC DATA LOSS

and then printed it out to a system printer students didn't have access too. So you got a page of random symbols and that error.

Little did I know the company adding more computers to the network was there that day and the guy panicked and had the system shut down, it was down the next day too. I never did ask what happened to bring attention to myself, and this was before we had individual accounts in the system.



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