"Hack the planet!"

"Said hello to 1,507 systems at once... front page of the New York Times!"

I did something similar. Didn't get me banned but got me inducted into the student sysadmin group instead. My highschool generally had one kid a year who did something notable enough to become an apprentice to the IT closet wizard. The hazing ritual was to deal with the fallout: respond to all the helpdesk tickets for 'weird message on screen' or 'I can't print', etc, and then listen to the older apprentices tell their tale.

Linux is like Unix but not derivate