this post is for all the 8 year olds who figured out their school's password for everything was either "admin" or the school team's name.
this post is for all the kids who tweaked their Accelerated Reader scores so they could get to the GOOD books.
this post is for every child who was doing IT work for their teachers before their school district knew you had to hire a guy to do that.
this one's for you, you precocious little technodevils
the kids who made fake login screens to scrape the substitute teacher account's credentials. The kids who seeded torrents from the back row of their history lecture. The kids who immediately figured out that the LAN projectors didn't have passwords. The kids who did social engineering attacks to get access to computers from which they could bump their grades up just enough to get into a university they wanted to go to and got away with it.
This post is for
All the little shits who figured out how to manipulate and social engineer the office staff. All the kids who knew enough to get to be the computer lab assistant. All the little miscreants who had unfettered access to all the teachers shit, and could trim the number of absences down after the fact and never get in trouble for it. All the little shits who could charm and con their way into anywhere they needed to be, and sometimes first class if they were flying alone.I salute you, you marvellous charming little devils.
i didnt do any of that shit but I did get on facebook at school in highschool by using the browser on a kindle that they had in the library
I got detention for installing Opera 7.5 on a school computer because they only configured the web filter in internet explorer.
I got away with it for almost a year.
shoutouts to the internet friend i had who got banned from the school computer lab for installing a "hacking program"
(it was NetHack)
I installed Ubuntu on a shitty HP netbook in 5th grade and was messing with the kid next to me so I opened a terminal window and typed hack [teachername]-laptop
Later that day I was brought out of class into a room with our head of IT, principal, and the school police officer. They had received a report from a student that I was hacking teacher's laptops, and they were taking it very seriously. After explaining multiple times to our head of IT that typing the word hack into a linux terminal is not, in fact, how Hacking Is Done, they decided to ban me from bringing that laptop to school again for the rest of the school year.
i got yelled at for this and they banned me from going to the back side of the computer lab for the rest of the year.
one time in high school, me and a friend found this sorta-secluded spot with a few lockers and a whole BUNCH of desktop PCs (like the ones in the computer lab), monitors, keyboards mice etc, and the desktops had words like "HDD REMOVED; RECYCLE" written on the side
we asked the main office about it and figured out that this tech was just Dumped there, cause it was gonna be collected later by some guys or something for recycling
My friend had the idea to plug them into the nearby wall socket, boot DOS on them (??? this was like 2018 lmao) and load space invaders on them, in such a way that it was all loaded in ram so he could take out the floppy disk (LOL) and put it in another computer to set up more of them (i kinda helped plug stuff in and whatever so i technically contributed to this)
IMPROMPTU ARCADE IN THE HALLWAY AT LUNCH PERIOD LET'S GOOOOOO (it got moderately popular!!)
at some point we got told to knock it off, but we were never given detention or any kinda punishment, the tech eventually disappeared one day and i assume that's cause it got collected
also i maybe secretly took one or two of them home cause they were throwing them out anyway and we were poor :3c
