I was sent to the principal for doing my HTML homework for a web design class in the library because the librarian accused me of hacking.

I was told by the superintendent of the school district's IT department to never do that again.

Obama was fresh out of his tan suit debacle.

Uhh, kids today dont know the ctrl+f command in a pdf viewer. They grew up with ipads.

Its rare I see one that knows anything about how computers function. Most dont know what a folder is.

*the above are all real things I had interns ask in the last few months.

Even those that don't understand command line know its used more than just "for hacking".

I don't think Hollywood has caught up yet. It doesn't even have to be a console, just any window with some code scrolling by fast equals hacking.

How long have you been away from high school? Either as a student or a parent?

I was on my Gentoo linux laptop trying to find an open WiFi network on a sidewalk when someone came out of the nearby bank to shoo me away because she was told I was "trying to hack the bank".

I was just trying SSH into my school account to send an email using PINE to let my parents know my train was 5 hours delayed. This would have been 2005 or so.

I dunno, when I come across someone who has done the following to a PDF:

1. Resized all the PDF pages into one size
2. Bookmarked the PDF
3. Bates numbering
4. OCRed
5. All the documents in one PDF

I give them a silent congrulations.

Far too often it's "I printed all the documents and then scanned them as one PDF. Also what the fuck is bookmarking or OCRing or bates numbering?"

Not even in the 90s since many people would have known what a command prompt was since we used it to launch programs. The only way someone is acting like op's greentext is if they had never used a computer but had watched a bunch of "hacker" movies. And for an entire school and police department to believe it and no one says "that's how I launch my Doom"? Not happening.