ahhh i remember as a teenager making sure our board of ed systems were Y2K-compliant. numerous times the principal staff would evacuate the office to take care of some action going on in the halls of the school. leaving me with access to the entire student records db and the VP login and password written on a sticky under the keyboard (not even joking!). in addition this was a laptop so RAS details were conveniently saved in network neighborhood.

this left me at a crossroads. i thought about writing malware that would randomly raise peoples semester grades by 4 points (e.g. C- would became a B+). i thought about mass changing grades. i thought about altering a target group of kids i didn't like. all but the last of the scenarios ended with me getting fingered because I was the smart computer kid. if i didn't touch my grades i would have plausible deniability. i wrote the malware. then i watched office space and decided to think about my actions (and promptly forgot as a horny teenager does). soooo glad i didn't release it because years later i went back into the code and found a leftover debug that would have targeted the only 2 kids in the school who had this letter in their last name.

tl;dr: office space is real