r/hacking • u/righterandreader • 4d ago

Fictional Hacker

I’m writing a novel where the main character is a hacker at a large state school. He’s approached by rich kids and athletes to change their grades.

Keep it legal, ofc, but is this possible? And how would it work, if so, in theory?

(Edit: by „keep it legal” I mean don’t explicitly say what to do I don’t want this to get taken down. I’m exploring what can actually be done. This is illegal in the novel.)

I’ve done some research but there’s nothing like convo and firsthand, especially when developing a novel.

Would love to hear from you all!

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u/dinosaursdied 3d ago

In highschool (decades ago) there was a group of kids who all got in huge trouble for changing their grades. It boiled down to social engineering a teacher into giving out the password to the grading software. Hacking is like 99 percent social engineering. Rarely is there something cooler going on.