This is the story of my father, who knows all about my various exploits and interest in computer security. His desktop runs Windows 2000, which he loves to tinker on. One day, he deleted a driver, and it didn't re-appear. This is where the blame began..

Since then, every time something has gone wrong on his computer, even if it is something as simple as a crash when he tries to load three copies of AOL at once (...), it was my fault.

Eventually, it got so bad that he would lock his computer up, changing passwords and everything, adding new security, every time one of my friends was over, blamming them for the problems with it.

What with all of this changing of passwords and adding new security programs, he managed to lock himself out. How clever. :-) Of course, this was obviously our fault, as he, who didn't even WRITE DOWN the new PWs, didn't make mistakes. He uploaded a back up, and logged in without problem.

He would blame me for things that happened while I was at afriends, and had been for the last week (during spring break). I'm so lucky. :-) When he realized this, he would say something equivalent to "I don't know how you did it, but you did.."

This just goes to prove, the right amount of knowledge in the wrong hands is a VERY dangerous thing.

I just had to rant.

Any ideas on dealing with this?