[CA Conservative]

The kid should have changed the password. Then he could have held the computer hostage as a bargaining chip for a better deal.

That wouldn't work. The domain administrator would have just reset the password and unlocked the account.

[Fiji Hill]

At a class that I was once observing, a kid found a computer’s password and changed it. The instructor had to be very nice to the kid and gently persuade him to divulge the new password—which was “trans-alien”—if he was ever to use the computer again.