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Optimus_Rhyme
Apr 15, 2007

are you that mainframe hacker guy?

Lysidas posted:

i am glad i messed with my high school's stuff in like 2001 and not now

truth

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Sharktopus
Aug 9, 2006

while I was in middle school a teacher's student work folder with a months worth of student work for a spanish class was deleted from the network share

my school district had lawyers draft up criminal charges against me and they claimed they were going to get the FBI involved

I just asked them to please do so someone with more competence could clear my name

It turns out the teacher deleted her own student work folder on accident and didnt want to own up to it, so she claimed she was hacked and the administration just assumed I had done it


the kicker? I didnt even take spanish and had no idea who this teacher even was

Sharktopus
Aug 9, 2006

getting called into the office and accused of "computer crimes" was also more or less a twice a year event from 5th grade until high school

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Sharktopus posted:

getting called into the office and accused of "computer crimes" was also more or less a twice a year event from 5th grade until high school

lol same. except i got suspended twice in middle school for really stupid poo poo

then in high school i got the admin password for everything (including deepfreeze) and nobody caught me :getin:

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica
the only computer related trouble that happened when i was in school was when some kids watched fisting videos



during an exam :psyduck:

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

someone in my high school set the desktop for the group policy or deep freeze image or whatever for the computer lab to the lemon party image. only got a week suspension for it

in high school physics we used a university's web homework system. someone put a key logger on the teacher's machine then started distributing the answers to the homework (they were randomized so everyone had their own answers). he actually was expelled and convicted of a misdemeanor as a minor. just community service though. he made a couple grand doing something with hitting Everquest characters or some poo poo the last few months of the year. lesson learned?

Gus Hobbleton
Dec 30, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
i got in poo poo numerous times from the library supervisors who kept on telling me to "get out of that hacker chatroom"

that hacker chatroom? somethingawful.com, circa 2001. thanks lowtax

edit: oh and i mean somethingawful.com, not forums.somethingawful.com, the loving front page

born on a buy you
Aug 14, 2005

Odd Fullback
Bird Gang
Sack Them All
i got banned from computers in high school because i "hacked" the ability to change backgrounds using mspaints > save as background.

Westie
May 30, 2013



Baboon Simulator

chemosh6969 posted:

Catholic school?

Nope, a school that pretends to be an exclusive private school but only non-paying poors can attend.

PCjr sidecar posted:

neither one was funny, hth

no poo poo

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer

Rahu posted:

I'm the 1.5 year old os apple has decided not to patch.

oh man this is pissing a few people around me off so bad

fuckin crapple

pr0zac
Jan 18, 2004

~*lukecagefan69*~


Pillbug

ultramiraculous posted:

oh man this is pissing a few people around me off so bad

fuckin crapple

im glad u didnt end up at apple :)

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
oh boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPytFAU2Pg0

i just to spend an hour with these guys on monday

MATH AND MACHINE-LEARNING ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT ENDPOINT PROTECTION

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma
Lipstick Apathy
in grade 8 I got kicked off the computers for the last month of school, because I left one "in a vulnerable state" by spawning a bunch of copies of explorer by holding win+e and walking away, the computers ran windows 95 with no auth

in high school I hacked my computer teachers personal dialup account/email, not on purpose though, he wrote his email on the board one day and it looked familiar
it was in my text file of 40 stolen dialup accounts I got by port scanning for sub7, I never installed sub7 i only port scanned so another student must of hacked him

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Luigi Thirty posted:

was it the cgi one that showed the PING OF DEATH and TCP/IP packets as train cars full of coal

warriors of the net owns

DumbWhiteGuy
Jul 4, 2007

You need haters. Fellas if you got 20 haters, you need 40 of them motherfuckers. If there's any haters in here that don't have nobody to hate on, feel free to hate on me

OSI bean dip posted:

oh boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPytFAU2Pg0

i just to spend an hour with these guys on monday

MATH AND MACHINE-LEARNING ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT ENDPOINT PROTECTION

iirc these are the guys that said "Iran is the new China" and well...nope

e: http://www.cylance.com/assets/Cleaver/Cylance_Operation_Cleaver_Report.pdf look at that poo poo

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

quote:

"He was targeting a teacher, he tried to put pornography on the teacher's computer, said Detective Anthony Bossone with the Pasco Sheriff's Office.

man am i glad i never got charged with a felony for figuring out the admin password on all the computers in high school was the name of a popular par2 file recovery tool. or tried to put pornography on a computer

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

the funniest thing in school involving computers was when someone decided it would be a smart idea to put as many roms and as much pornography on his network share as possible

there were no disk quotas

he filled up a 500gb server drive with pornography and warez

i don't think he got expelled but he couldn't use a computer at school ever again

pctD
Aug 25, 2009



Pillbug
In high school I crashed the shared file server by duplicating lines in a text file. The accounts had space limits on them but if all of the space was in 1 file it just overflowed and took over all the available space in the file server. It took the IT Department a while to fix that and restore everyone's files. Never got more than a slap on the wrist for that one but my friend and I ended up getting paid to work for the IT Department in our jr/sr years. They made a movie about my school but it's a shame they left out that stuff!!

Angela Merkle Tree
Jan 4, 2012

the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"
College Slice
my high school had internet quotas but our cool lazy art teacher would sign us in as him for unlimited use in his class

since these were 2004 era macs with safari, the proxy auth dialog looks almost identical to the http basic auth dialog

so i made a php script and ran it through the mac server on localhost, had it present a http basic auth, capture his username/password, then load up a saved webpage to make everything appear legit

no quotas for the rest of my time there

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

in highschool I installed pre-1.0 Linux on a few computers and connected them to a local university via ISDN. NETSCAPE loving NAVIGATOR Y'ALL. and gopher.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

pctD posted:

In high school I crashed the shared file server by duplicating lines in a text file. The accounts had space limits on them but if all of the space was in 1 file it just overflowed and took over all the available space in the file server. It took the IT Department a while to fix that and restore everyone's files. Never got more than a slap on the wrist for that one but my friend and I ended up getting paid to work for the IT Department in our jr/sr years. They made a movie about my school but it's a shame they left out that stuff!!

while they didn't make a movie about it my hs had/has an isp and i used to drive out in the country with another student and install nutscrape and modems and os upgrades for olds

i think i could still remember the school's ips if i weren't relaxing with a beer atm


they wouldn't let us mess around in the server room unfortunately

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
i crashed a school server with a friend by setting eachother to automatic forward in the school e-mail system

the mailbox got full, eventually of fw: fw: fw: fw: full inbox alerts

they fixed it by disabling automatic forwarding for everyone, and didn't even approach us about the issue

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Lysidas posted:

i am glad i messed with my high school's stuff in like 2001 and not now

ohgodwhat
Aug 6, 2005

Boarding school, watched our IT guy remote into a student's personal computer (which had to be added to the school's domain) and watch the student watch porn. Creepy.

That's why I went to the effort to figure out how to bypass their checks for domain membership (among other things), which involved changing a config file in an executable zip file. Really high level poo poo here.

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

ohgodwhat posted:

Boarding school, watched our IT guy remote into a student's personal computer (which had to be added to the school's domain) and watch the student watch porn. Creepy.

That's why I went to the effort to figure out how to bypass their checks for domain membership (among other things), which involved changing a config file in an executable zip file. Really high level poo poo here.

My high school had an a/v club that broadcasted a student run and produced morning news show throughout the school via the classroom televisions. During lunchtime the television in the cafeteria would be turned on and tuned to the a/v club's channel for a looping powerpoint repeating the news of the day. This was accomplished by having a computer loop a powerpoint and redirecting the output to the a/v club's channel

One day someone decided that the computer dedicated to displaying this powerpoint would be a great way to watch anime porn

in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

high school hacker chat is somehow duller than hearing about other peoples dreams

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

PCjr sidecar posted:

high school hacker chat is somehow duller than hearing about other peoples dreams

i enjoy it, it keeps me wise and aware that no matter how smart grown-ups like me seem, kids desperate to see a kitty or chat or whatever are gonna be smarter, especially in numbers

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Subjunctive posted:

in highschool I installed pre-1.0 Linux on a few computers and connected them to a local university via ISDN. NETSCAPE loving NAVIGATOR Y'ALL. and gopher.

I'm not sure which of those makes you most ancient but dear God.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Segmentation Fault posted:

One day someone decided that the computer dedicated to displaying this powerpoint would be a great way to watch anime porn

They were right.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

PCjr sidecar posted:

high school hacker chat is somehow duller than hearing about other peoples dreams

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

annapacketstormaya posted:

I'm not sure which of those makes you most ancient but dear God.

I ran one of the first large gopher sites in Canada. I'm basically a pharaoh.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

OSI bean dip posted:

oh boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPytFAU2Pg0

i just to spend an hour with these guys on monday

MATH AND MACHINE-LEARNING ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT ENDPOINT PROTECTION

At a Cylance party last year I spent 45 minutes talking to a guy who used to do dolphin research for the army. Why he stopped doing that to work for cylance idfk.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Subjunctive posted:

I ran one of the first large gopher sites in Canada. I'm basically a pharaoh.

lol a canadian gopher site is the technological equivalent of store brand soda

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Beeftweeter posted:

lol a canadian gopher site is the technological equivalent of store brand soda

RC cola supremacy

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Subjunctive posted:

RC cola supremacy

pharaoh's own radio control soda

for real though gopher was cool. i remember using it in elementary school :butt:

oh god that makes me old too i guess

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
on my school library i installed quake after figuring out the admin password and played it on break times as the computer was facing away from any staff and had no sound. couple months later they removed it and fixed the password though :| on last day of school someone else changed the school share files all to hardcore porn and it kind of owned to hear people screaming as they watched hardcore porn whenever they were trying to find some document lol

a7m2
Jul 9, 2012


PCjr sidecar posted:

high school hacker chat is somehow duller than hearing about other peoples dreams

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Reminds me, one time I got a mail on my university students mail account, but it was sent to some kind of old 'allthepeople@science...' address that everyone had forgotten about or something. It was some message from the univ's central administration to the folks running the science department.

Some other student replied that it wasn't meant for them... and this message appeared into my account too. After that people figured out quickly that anyone could send messages to that address and they would be received by all students, and possibly by staff too.

So a bunch of students started posting memes and stuff, it quickly devolved into some FYAD-like poo poo, with the occassional person asking if everyone would PLEASE STOP. It got to multiple messages per second. I quickly made a mail filter, dumping it all in some separate folder. The tsunami of mails suddenly stopped after an hour and a half or so and we never heard anything about it anymore.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
that same thing happen with the microsoft patch mailing list some years ago, someone figured if you replied to that everyone would get it so i was getting like hundreds of messages until it stopped

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N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
my school had a novell netware network and i changed the post-login script to run a qbasic program which mimicked the ascii art netware login so people would type their password again and i'd write that to a file for later pickup...then the qbasic exited and they continued onto the windows 3.11 for workgroups desktop. once i got the admin password i had a look around the network but there wasn't anything interesting to be found.

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