• cookie_lust@programming.devEnglish
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    2 年前

    for several days in a row i’d get to class before the bell. the teacher would hang out in the halls.

    i’d hop on his unlocked PC, open command prompt, run shutdown /r /t 600, minimize the prompt, and walk away.

    he’d be mid attendance and his computer would reboot on him. a few days in he stepped into the room mid me typing the command. he was madder than i expected, but just “yelled” at me.

    • mvee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 年前

      Lol bold move. I suspect admin at my school would have accused you of hacking and threatened a bunch of ridiculous shit

  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
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    2 年前

    At my school, we quickly discovered that the admin password for all the networked printers was the name of the high school. All these HP laser jets had a function where you could upload custom translations for the status messages on the printer displays. So we downloaded the English string set (XML) and made some changes, “translating” for example, “Printer Ready” to read “Paper Jam”, “Replace Toner” and so on. As well as changing the admin password. The school actually RMA’d them back to HP thinking the paper jams were some sort of actual defect, as opposed to an altered status message, and eventually replaced them all with Brother printers. Oops lol

  • everett@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    Create a folder with intriguing name on desktop, take screenshot, set screenshot as wallpaper, delete folder. (Didn’t everyone?)

  • rockstarpirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 年前

    When I was in middle school in the mid ‘90s, the school library decided to go digital. They installed a bunch of computers with what they called “a boolean search system”. For the first time, you could search for a book by topic in the library and, after a bit of a wait bc computers were pretty slow back then, you’d get a list of results.

    Well, us being kids, on the very first day, somebody decided to search for “book”, which of course matched every single book in the library and therefore created enough system load to lock up those poor mid-‘90s computers to the point that they required a hardware restart. IIRC this system was on some kind of a network too and I believe it would also lock up the network such that the other computers couldn’t use the system either. I didn’t know much about such things at the time.

    Anyway, word got around immediately and so every single time a class came to the library, somebody would search “book” on a computer to see what would happen and lock up the whole system for hours. This went on for weeks with the punishment for searching “book” on the “boolean search system” becoming more and more severe, and then I moved to a new state so I unfortunately do not know how this story ended.

  • grannyweatherwax@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 年前

    Don’t know if it’s called messing with it but installed GTA and pretty much played that any chance I got. Also learnt that “sound” is just an additional aspect of a game I can get by without

  • zephyrvs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    Gained access to the school’s domain admin account and fucked with th teachers remotely via Tor.

    Wanted to access the teachers calendar because he was a fucking Nazi and stumbled upon VPN credentials to a government-run education network and could’ve leaked hundreds of thousands of pupil’s personal data and school grades but decided against it and shared with admins how I got in and told them how to fix it. Never got into his calendar though. 😶

  • justcoding_de@programming.devEnglish
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    2 年前

    Modified every boot floppy disk to display „<teacher name> is stupid“ before the prompt.

    I still feel bad about that. Mr. E., if you are reading this, I‘m sorry, you were a great teacher and taught us well.

  • Maslo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 年前

    netsend

    It’s a little command line program included with windows that you can set up to send short messages to computers as a popup box. A lot of printers could use this to tell you your print job was successful, and it was used a lot in libraries and such. And also my high school. They had some cursory protections in place, but if you managed to open a command prompt you could send your own message. You just needed the recipients windows username or PC name… our school used the standard first letter of first name + full last name, even the teachers. So of course, being highschool, this spread like wildfire and there was a whole semester where everyone was abusing it to troll other classmates or interrupt teachers mid lesson. It was also being used as IM/text before any of us even had phones - you could shoot your friend a message to dip out of class or something.

    Everything came to an abrupt halt when a guy was dared to run a batch file that was a single, looped, expletive laden net send to a wildcard recipient. It sent the message on repeat to every computer in every school in the district. Every time you hit ok a new box would pop up with the same message. Supposedly every computer needed a hard restart, including servers. Dude got in trouble, and our printers stopped telling us the print job was successful after that.

    • tebro@lemmy.tebro.fiEnglish
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      2 年前

      Had to scroll way to far to find this 😂 teachers got quite upset when we discovered this trick in middle school.

  • tsp@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 年前

    We installed Doom (1 or 2, I don’t remember) in an invisible folder and played via the 10Base-2 network. Those were the 90ies…

  • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 年前

    They had both NetSupport and DeepFreeze installed. At the time, NetSupport config files could be decrypted with a simply python script, and contained the password. Turns out, it was the general admin password.

    So I had admin creds, full control of any PC with NetSupport, and the ability to install anything on a computer and have it survive past a reboot.

    What did I do with it? Video games, mostly.

    • mvee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 年前

      People still put passwords in encoded vbscript… If we could all get over thinking your code is some sort of special secret life would be so much better :P

  • cynetri (he/any)English
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    2 年前

    I don’t remember messing with the computers thenselves, but I do remember my friends and I finding the password to the public wifi and connecting to it for all of like a day (w/ a VPN so as to not get caught) before getting booted off and the password reset. Rinse and releat a couple times before we couldn’t crack it anymore

  • Eggs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    The school computer were running Windows Vista, poor things didn’t need to be messed with.