So a little background. If you don't know, my code.org account got deleted after 2 years and I decided to run an auto-report script as revenge. I felt like it was justified at first because, you know, two years of hard work gone. I felt like it was justified because the rule was added on December 16th and I had stopped operating chat apps by then.
I also felt like it was justified because they fixed the report system.

It wasn't.

It turns out they contacted my school (since my account had my school email) and told them that I had "took malicious actions" against them and disrupting "thousands of students". It makes sense, since I was abusing an API call to render the public projects page unusable.

I was called down to the office today, and had a surprisingly nice conversation with them. I'm very grateful that code.org decided to not press charges (which they are well within their right to do so).

However, they did say that they have given me "several warnings" before deleting my account.
I can count the number of times they've actually contacted me on one hand, and it feels like only two of them are actual human responses and not just a copypaste (the first one being a request to add Nookipedia to startWebRequest, and the second being the response to Dots being banned). The other three times definitely feel like they're just being copied and pasted from a template.

They also mentioned the "resignation" and "the truth" forum posts, which with the first one, I posted on both here and their forum (the one on their forum got deleted), and with "the truth", I only posted that here (I fail to see how it's relevant since it's just me owning up to making up Brendan).

I'm honestly a little surprised that my punishment isn't as harsh as it could be. Instead of being fined $15k and/or being sentenced to 10 years in prison, I instead have to serve three detention services, attend some one-on-one counseling, and not attend the upcoming robotics competition.

In conclusion: don't hack CDO. It's not worth it.

    looooooooooooooooooool
    dude totally worth it, CYBERCRIMES FOR LYFE LETS GOOOOOOOOO

    Just to be clear, I am NOT justifying hacking in any way, shape, or form. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. I should have realized that no matter how much damage I caused, none of it would bring back my projects.

      dang
      now you can put "hacked a children's website" on yer resume

      well it was a fun adventure while it lasted. I mean I would've fought graycat myself (context he tried to recruit me because I also had the same software that hacked code.org and I figured out how to use it, but I refused of course) if it weren't for the chats going down. That would've been a great finale. DAMMIT CODE.ORG TEAM I wanted to be in the glory days agains. aw

        i am surprised code.org didnt do worse against you after committing many unlawful acts which caused millions of students to be disrupted all over the globe

        my schools cdo "course" doesnt even allow them to post or share projects
        the only reason i can do it is because i was a ta and the school doesnt actually care

        You didn't hack anything, all you did was DDOS code.org.. 💀💀

        name yourself graycat, us a vpn and use a different account and device away from school if necessary

          person a vpn is hard to find on a school computer, besides the extensions they have installed to keep you on watch

            thats why i said use a different device, perhaps go to the public library (not the school one) and use those computers, and im pretty sure you could get a free trial for a vpn, do the hackings, then run from the library as fast as you can, change your identity and facial features, and move to Zimbabwe

            or just like don't do it? that's the entire point of this post

            lol we were just joking
            dont commit cybercrimes kids 👌

            [WUT] Adam Well... technically that right... but also wrong, most companies have a bug bounty program set in place for people to be able to test certain things to insure that it's not exploitable while attacking the company or organization is illegal on your own there can be such contracts that allow such things to take place within a set time limit much like QA is for games as Ethical Hacking is for security there is a job field for a reason however this is not what you did which is why you are not condoning such actions be taken if you are in the same situation I'm glad this didn't turn out to be worse than it could have been I'm glad you shared the info with us though

              [WUT] Adam
              hey buddy I need you to hack my account my sister changed my password

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                  -wyi btw I sent you stuff in DMs

                    [WUT] Adam I need someone who can hack me, anyone here? I lost my password and email isn't working

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                        -wyi frick I somehow merged my alt with my normal and lost everything NO

                          Does running this script result in accounts being deleted? Because if it does it likely deleted my code.org account cause mine disappeared over the summer lol

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