I hacked my sister's PC and read her Facebook messages to learn the truth about her.

This all took place many years ago when I was a freshman in high school. I'd bought an iPod

nano, which was hot stuff back then, with money that I'd earned by helping my neighbor, and as I didn't

make much, I was pretty protective of my iPod. My scumbag sister had also

recognized that it was worth a few hundred. As I later found out, she had stolen it and given it to a

friend temporarily until the heat was off. I suspected this immediately when it wasn't on my desk,

where I knew where I left it. I asked my parents if I had done something that warranted

punishment, but neither had touched it. Clearly, I needed evidence to pin my sister. As a

freshman, I was pretty computer savvy. At the time, I was learning a few programming languages

and had kind of a good feel for novice hacking. Nothing serious, but enough to get in trouble at school kind of thing.

I got to work on a spy tool. My plan was to get into her email and Facebook where I hoped

to find evidence. At the very least, I could mess up her account and get revenge. A few hours of work

later and the program was done. And it was way more than a simple spy tool.

Although I honestly had no idea how to make a spy tool at the time,

I damn sure knew how to write a batch file that would mess up your Windows partition six ways to Sunday.

I'd basically written a carpet bomb that had the same icon as Internet Explorer.

The virus, can I call it that? Was armed when you replaced

the default Internet Explorer EXE file with the malicious file that shared the same file name and icon.

Of course, when you went to run Internet Explorer, you set it off. The original file would be launched

after the virus ran, so everything was still usable. Of course, my original

goal was still carried out. I'd packaged in a simple key logger, which records keystrokes,

that any decent antivirus would have noticed instantly. But once my sister was out of the house,

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