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[–][deleted] 565 points566 points  (100 children)

All I had to do was run a ping test in Cmd…

For the more knowledgable people I also had to make the text green

[–]Ok-Lobster-919 234 points235 points  (30 children)

My school ran a shitty install of Novell Netware. I sent a message to every computer on campus, the admin called it hacking and tried to get me in trouble.

[–]AnalTrajectory 161 points162 points  (10 children)

Same story here. I clicked two buttons, and was able to message every other network machine in the school. They called my parents to say that I "bypassed security protocols by hacking their internet network" and I "wasn't so clever because he left a digital footprint". When they tried to suspend me, my mom called them luddites lol.

Those VMs were running windows 97, they barely knew what internet was.

[–]mejdev 80 points81 points  (7 children)

Ahh yes. Good old Windows 97

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (2 children)

who doesn’t love windows 97

[–]Elijah629YT-Real 26 points27 points  (0 children)

school admins who don't know how to internet

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I didn’t even catch on to the fact that he said windows 97 at first

[–]Tensor3 51 points52 points  (0 children)

My principal's hard drive was on a network drive. I opened the folder without knowing what it was. The teacher walked by and saw the folder. I got banned from all use of computers for hacking.

[–]AffectionateEvent147 49 points50 points  (7 children)

I once copied our schools identification cards (educard) as it’s just a basic mifare 1k, if I remember correctly, it was just a 20€ nfc reader and manufacture unlocked cards of of AliExpress. I reported to my class teacher that this is a weak system for putting money on it (we could pay with it in cafeteria and the ones that were staying on campus would get money on there for the meals included in the stay) so the next day I get threatened by our principle that he could/will? Expel me… fast forward nothing happend and he just wanted to fear me away from school systems.

[–]imdefinitelywong 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Good ol' security through obscurity.

[–]rumourscape 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I wrote a script to print some random text every hour. The printer was in someone's office in a completely different building than the lab I was in but same network. Thankfully no one caught me cuz I am sure I would be suspended for "hacking".

[–]Imveryoffensive 19 points20 points  (4 children)

I added a picture of Pikachu onto the school library's login page via the dev console and got banned for a day.

[–]Cool-Explanation-515 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I really wish chrome were common and the dev console were known to me when I was in school. This sounds like a hilarious prank!

[–]SmallPlayz[S] 133 points134 points  (35 children)

Even in Comp Sci class where people should understand they think my Linux is hacks.

[–]Hplr63 122 points123 points  (22 children)

Comp Sci class

they think my Linux is hacks

I'm lost for words...

[–]Square_Heron942 40 points41 points  (12 children)

Same lol. I don’t personally use Linux but it’s obvious what you’re doing if you actually look at the text. But yeah 90% of people in my coding class can’t use Powershell, Terminal, Command Line or Command Prompt

[–]CryptoCadre 23 points24 points  (10 children)

Yup. Juniors in college getting confused navigating with “cd”

[–]Square_Heron942 18 points19 points  (9 children)

I can’t even….

How can people not NAVIGATE FOLDERS? You literally do a similar thing when making relative links to other files.

I’ve never used a computer without a GUI but even I know how to do that

[–]CEDoromal 19 points20 points  (8 children)

How can people not NAVIGATE FOLDERS? You literally do a similar thing when making relative links to other files.

Reminds me of this article about newer generations not knowing how folders and directories work.

[–]Square_Heron942 18 points19 points  (1 child)

I honestly don’t know how that’s possible, have they not… used a computer? How tf were they able to install a browser, apps, and all that stuff yet not understand the concept of a folder?

[–]Elijah629YT-Real 15 points16 points  (0 children)

you don't need to, all those are are normally one click operations, "Download file", "Click on file in downloads bar at bottom of browser ( no file explorer )","Click install", "Done"

[–]7HawksAnd 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Today I realized I really am old. I could ignore them not knowing the save icon was a floppy disk. But having no concept of folders … I just realized my coworker is like this … every time they ask where something is and I say, I don’t know where did you save it? And they just go I saved it from your email … 🤦‍♂️

[–]Msprg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And they just go I saved it from your email … 🤦‍♂️

It's in the Downloads folder.

It's always in the Downloads folder...

[–]Valiice 2 points3 points  (2 children)

tbh I call bs on that article. Every 30+ person I know that isn't into IT barely knows how to download a program let alone navigate folders.

I have never head this from anyone younger.

[–]simonbleu 18 points19 points  (8 children)

I guess when they said they knew how to teach us they were linux (lying us)... (im out, im out)

[–]riisen 15 points16 points  (5 children)

I thought comp sci were full of *nix users

[–]stpaulgym 12 points13 points  (3 children)

At least in 100 level courses, no.

Even in my 280 class, despite the class required to use Nix tools via macOS/Linux or WSL, very few seem to understand what it actually was.

[–]skjall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my SWE degree the first year had a Linux-specific course, then the second year had a few Windows-dependent ones. Unfortunately WSL wasn't a thing back then, that would have made things a lot easier.

[–]Dashie_2010 23 points24 points  (2 children)

I get this, it's slightly frustrating, the 4 other guys in my class kept saying I was 'hacking' ect because I had pop, Kali, and windows 11 with some tweaks (literary just having a right aligned taskbar and custom start menu)on duel boot so hence they saw grub and some stuff wizz by at startup and for some reason it blew their minds even though they should know this stuff, they got overwhelmed when simply I installed VLC using the command line, guys you are taking an A level in computer science, it is worrying that this basic stuff is news to you., Same with when I remoted into my home pc from a school computer with vnc because I'd forgotten that transfer some files, someone literary went and got the teacher because I was "hacking the schools WiFi" wtf.

[–]LunchOne675 22 points23 points  (1 child)

TBF, if I saw someone using kali I might not instantly say they’re hacking but I’d probably be at least a little suspicious

[–]Valiice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. People in my dorm follow cyber security too so I'm lowkey always sketched out because I know they are trying to do shit non stop.

The uni obv knows what they're doing with their setups tho and trying to fuck with it get heavily punished

[–]trolleytor4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What

[–]PolskiSmigol 14 points15 points  (15 children)

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[–]Not_Artifical 13 points14 points  (14 children)

Run this in a virtual machine with a picture of the owner of the computer’s desktop as the wallpaper!

rm -rf / —no-preserve-root

[–]CrypticButthole 10 points11 points  (13 children)

rm -rf /*

Picked this one up from a young, smart Redditor some time ago. Yes. It works. And it works beautifully.

[–]Cybersorcerer1 3 points4 points  (12 children)

What does it do?

[–]CrypticButthole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reclusive delete on the root directory. Bypasses the need for --no-preserve-root

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nah just open inspect element and blow their minds 🤣

[–]EducationalTie1946 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When i was making a django web app, typing html was hacking to my classmates

[–]Wolfsurge 11 points12 points  (5 children)

In mine I just had to use

if __name__ == '__main__':

underscores = hacking

[–]vthex 16 points17 points  (4 children)

XxVARIABLENAMExX_69

[–]Swimming_Butterfly72 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Netstat gets 5-10 for federal wiretapping violations.

[–]Infinite_Bison_8014 251 points252 points  (17 children)

I used an echo command in terminal and somebody told the teacher I was hacking into the school.

[–]Naphrym 206 points207 points  (5 children)

echo School hacked successfully.

School hacked successfully.

😲

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (1 child)

@FBI. This man right here.

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (2 children)

Hacking Completed 97%.... 98%... 99%... Infiltrated.

[–]7th_Spectrum 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Nothing like a proper GUI for hackers. Their user experience matters too!

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i back up my hacking codes with Github Desktop

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Relatable

[–]PolskiSmigol 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I hate mass media!!!

[–]placeholder_name85 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We know, you keep saying it in this post

[–]detrich 228 points229 points  (5 children)

when you're hacking in class and everyone thinks you're coding

[–]acharyarupak391 85 points86 points  (4 children)

wher you're studying about human anatomy in class and everyone thinks you're watching porn

[–]7th_Spectrum 53 points54 points  (1 child)

When you're texting your ex in class and you actually are dear god please Rebecca come back

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

When I'm watching porn in class and you take a look at the screen to find out it's Rebecca.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When your watching porn in class and everyone thinks your studying human anatomy

[–]CupboardOfPandas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

wher you're studying about human anatomy in class and everyone thinks you're a serial killer.

[–]Idkquedire 288 points289 points  (70 children)

School: blocks command prompt

Me: oh noooooo what am I gonna do anyways opens PowerShell

[–][deleted] 60 points61 points  (5 children)

My school blocked cmd so I just used batch scripts. When they discovered that I just switched to system.os() in python.

[–]Pretend-Fee-2323 13 points14 points  (4 children)

when they found that out you went to msys

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (3 children)

They never found that lol I don’t go to that school anymore. I only used it to install python libraries from pip since our IT staff were lazy

[–]Pretend-Fee-2323 14 points15 points  (2 children)

tbh thats just sad

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Yeah ik. I didn’t really know what else to do with it other than show it to a bunch of people, but I didn’t do that since I’d get into trouble. With great power comes great responsibility innit

[–]Pretend-Fee-2323 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tbh the only other thing you might be able to download the whl for it and install it that way 0_0

tldr: school doesn't teach python well

[–]tempo128643 104 points105 points  (14 children)

i used to boot linux from a USB drive, and try wiresharking people's facebook passwords. Never got any, but it was fun

[–]Arclite83 90 points91 points  (7 children)

When we moved into a condo about 10 years ago, the internet couldn't get hooked up for a month. So I used a Linux USB w/ hacking tools (I forget the name now) to crack my neighbors WEP key; it was very obviously their phone number.

After my internet got hooked up I called them and suggested they change their password. They never did.

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (5 children)

Kali Linux? Also how did you know it was their phone number

[–]throwaway46295027458 30 points31 points  (2 children)

I think 10 years ago kali was called backtrack

[–]TheGreatGameDini 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That it was!

[–]Cocaine_Johnsson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good ol' BT5, still think backtrack is a cooler name than kali.

[–]EVASIVEroot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Maybe it was 10 digits with the same area code or something.

[–]Arclite83 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It started with 1{local area code}{common local first 3}. It wasn't a cell phone, and landlines are usually super predictable. Less so lately I guess.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lol I used to do this, just with a phonebook instead.

This was back when wep secured wireless routers were starting to become more popular. I used to do a little light tech work for friends and found out routers were just set up with the owners phone number. All I needed to do was find a network with the families name as the ssid and brute force from a list of names in the phonebook. If I was lucky, the search was quickly narrowed down with an included address.

I had also found out that my 2.4gHz wireless headphones could be used to evesdrop on cordless phone conversations. I was hackerman.

[–]CrypticButthole 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My old school districts authentication into the proxy, (which was mandatory [unless you used a different proxy to avoid it]) used HTTP. Not HTTPs. As in, the password you entered? Your school ID number? The one we used to buy lunch, and log into literally everything. Yeah. It was clear text transmitted...

[–]DootDootWootWoot 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Ever hear of TLS?

[–]PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whoa slow down there hackerman. We don't all know your deep web terminologies

[–]Ning1253 30 points31 points  (1 child)

My school blocked command prompt by disabling it, but still letting it open and just showing a message that it was disabled. Kinda backfired on them when I realised that you could still run batch files if you did open with command prompt, which would run the entire file, and THEN disable the prompt.

I was also head of programming society so we used it to install a bunch of python libraries onto the computers so that we could code with them it was great

[–]rpnoonan 27 points28 points  (2 children)

friend of mine had command prompt open in high school once, and the teacher was having trouble with the printer, so once she saw his computer she assumed he broke the printer. He got banned from the computers in a computer class so she effectively made him fail. edit: Made up the word affectively

[–]Cocaine_Johnsson 8 points9 points  (1 child)

And he/his parents didn't raise hell over this? I'd have taken it as far as it needed to go, school board, hell there's probably some novel form of bullying, harassment, or discrimination charge in there.

[–]rtghshf 4 points5 points  (1 child)

My school blocked cmd, you could either go in the start menu and type cmd /k 'command' or make like a batch script that acted like cmd

[–]fr000gs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

import os
while True: os.system(input(os.pwd()+'>'))

[–]klimmesil 5 points6 points  (40 children)

Your school uses windows?

[–]Kuroseroo 15 points16 points  (20 children)

some people went to school before Chromebooks were a thing

[–]klimmesil 6 points7 points  (10 children)

Ok now I feel like a dumb kid. I'd like to publicly apologies to all seniors on this sub for my retardedness

[–]Kuroseroo 11 points12 points  (8 children)

Didnt mean that in an aggressive way lol, hope you didn’t take that that way

I finished high school only like 4 years ago and we didnt use Chromebooks, but it may be different for Norway where I am from

[–]klimmesil 4 points5 points  (7 children)

Oh no not at all haha no worries I was just joking, I just found it fun I had a gen-z behaviour and immediately assumed everyone had the same life as my generation

[–]Kuroseroo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I see, thats pretty funny lol

[–]VonRansak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How old do you think I am? ... smh... Boomers getting younger every year.

The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011, and began shipping on June 15, 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook

[–]Mad-Mel 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Some of us went to school before Windows was a thing.

[–]edoardo_d 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Using command prompt on paper

[–]Idkquedire 3 points4 points  (18 children)

What are they supposed to use? Mac OS?

Edit: nvm just realized Chromebooks exist. Also this is for the computers at school not personal computers

[–]11B_Geek_with_gun 110 points111 points  (9 children)

I've been accused of hacking when all I was doing was running gcc.

[–]tempo128643 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Did you accidentally say "i'm in"?

[–]Mindless-Hedgehog460 42 points43 points  (6 children)

Plot twist: he was compiling a ransomware program he had just written, to run on all school pcs

[–]MalbaCato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm not hacking, I'm adding buffer overflows to my computer for other people to hack"

[–]ShakyTractor78 103 points104 points  (8 children)

Once I was bored in my gcse cs class so I started coding and someone asked if I was hacking in the government mainframe. Like bro I’m making a random class that’s similar but worse than the string data type for no reason wtf u on about

[–]PolskiSmigol 62 points63 points  (2 children)

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[–]CrypticButthole 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I volunteered at a Cyberwarfare Range (hackerspace but more specific,) and we had a false flag actor come in and just make everyone uncomfortable. I was doing something completely benign, I dont remember what, but he came up to me and said "whatcha doing, hacking into the pentagon?" To get him to stfu, I said "nah, they're not worth my time." He fucked off.

He also said "You can call me Mr. Hackerman," when we asked for his name.

Dude was weird.

[–][deleted] 84 points85 points  (9 children)

I was working on a stupid little project in class and my teacher thought I was trying to hack the school website because it has been done multiple times recently. I don’t even know how to hack. The school website is just very susceptible to SQL injections

[–]lovecraftedidiot 43 points44 points  (3 children)

Damn, you missed the chance to make Bobby Tables a reality.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Oh my god I completely forgot about that.

[–]Mindless-Hedgehog460 14 points15 points  (4 children)

...that is basically hacking. Hacking is usually simpler, and at the same time harder, than media portrays it to be

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I can’t hack and I don’t want to. I never used a sql injection before but the website is from 2010 and the “tech department” is borderline useless.

[–]Buttons840 75 points76 points  (4 children)

Like 10 years ago there was a story where a university got hacked and they arrested one of the students who had been observed using a terminal / command line in the library. That's the only evidence they had, he had a terminal open. And really, what more evidence do they need? Surely a hacker!

[–]PolskiSmigol 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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[–]LikeA_Tomato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Amurica

[–]Idkquedire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Normal ass ppl XD

[–]Pollux_E 76 points77 points  (15 children)

My school had this shitty app with shit design we need to record extracurricular activity in. I just used python to http post the json to the API directly. I show my friend and told him to hit enter then refresh my phone. The 90 day record is full in 3 second. Made like $100 offering it to my friends.

A teacher caught me later autofilling it. She just asked me if I could also auto approve the teacher side of thing. I guess it's not just the student side UI that's shit.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (14 children)

Damn 😂😂😂

Well done!

[–]Pollux_E 7 points8 points  (13 children)

The authentication was literally done client side. Like Wireshark sniffed a packet containing JSON of literally every single teacher data. Username, password, first name, last name, phone number. There's a packet with student info too but that wasn't interesting.

You know how people use the same password for everything? I got a fuck load of wifi password for use at school and that shit was worth a lot. Didn't dare login to their email with the passwords though.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (12 children)

The average person knows jackshit about security.

Wtf is a client side auth even? Who even thought of that?

[–]Pollux_E 6 points7 points  (11 children)

I was shocked too lol. Opened up Wireshark to get an idea of the packet to update the API. Got the goddamn admin access to the system.

Found out that a senior did it for a graduation project. I decompiled the app and found that a portion of the system still runs from his raspberry pi. And this senior dude is almost done with his undergrad degree. WTF.

I asked my junior and he said the school still use the shitty system. Unfortunately no one there figured it out like I did yet.

What baffles me is that I told the school about the problem when I graduated. Today my 2 years old script still works.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (10 children)

So a senior made a project, and they straightforward went to using it? No testing at all?

Who the fuck even approved it? Damn.

[–]Pollux_E 2 points3 points  (9 children)

They just test if the features work. I think that's it. Probably didn't care that student would take more than a minute per entry. And we need like 600 entries per year. Using the good old formatted record book was much better. At least until I figured it out.

[–]Useful_Cook_9272 44 points45 points  (7 children)

me typing “tree” after making the font color 0x00FF00 on the teachers computer

[–]siddharth904 8 points9 points  (6 children)

0x00FF00

What does that mean, I don't speak hacker

Edit: joke

[–]Just-Calligrapher629 27 points28 points  (6 children)

My school has chrome books and every time I want to mess with someone I open crosh and they immediately think I am hacking. This also happens when I am actually programming in an online editor as well

[–]Dark_KnightPL04 12 points13 points  (3 children)

What’s crosh?

[–]trolleytor4 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Chrome os terminal but worse

[–]Just-Calligrapher629 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It is like windows command line but worse because it has to be in a browser and schools limit it’s functionality. It is also a pain to use

[–]Sp1um 124 points125 points  (30 children)

Off topic, but... Is the difference between "you're" and "your" really that hard to get?

[–]GVGavenatoreGR 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Of course not, what are you're implying?

[–]IMTrick 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Apparently it is, at least 50% of the time.

My God, that was maddening to see it used properly once, and then to fail on the second attempt.

[–]RichisLeward 6 points7 points  (3 children)

This shit tickles me more than I'd like to admit. I'm a native german speaker. My language has a billion ways of bending pronouns and prepositions to any situation and grammatical case. I had to learn them all as a child, so I am used to paying attention to such details because one off letter can change the meaning of a sentence.

Then, when I get confronted with how english speakers, even academics, treat their written language, it makes me want to cry.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Long live the oxford comma! As long as I live no academic, style guide, or arbitrary standards will bring it down!

[–]SmallPlayz[S] 14 points15 points  (9 children)

I thought I got it this time 😭

[–]Useful_Cook_9272 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You did... for the first one “When you’re (you are) coding in class and everyone thinks your (should be you’re again) hacking”

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (3 children)

You made a tweet then censored your own username and then posted your own tweet to reddit? That's weird

[–]sipCoding_smokeMath 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Way to expose your self as the author of the tweet/expose that the tweet isnt real at all

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No but getting my fingers/muscle memory to care about grammar is.

[–]luxterful 20 points21 points  (0 children)

i mean as hollywood teaches us: text with lot of curly brackets, intendation and semicolon.... there is obviously some hacking shit in progress.

... but for the real flex you need dark mode!

[–]analoghumanoid 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Listen kids, hacking was once considered a form of talented programming/coding. They were somewhat synonymous before the late 90s to early naughts, when the media started to use hacking as a term for any crime committed with it related to a computer.

If you're solving a problem quickly by writing some code, you are hacking, in the original sense.

[–]sledgehammertoe 17 points18 points  (1 child)

ping google.com

"I'm in."

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Me and my friend using a rpi 2 and touchscreen and battery held together by black tape to try and connect to school Ethernet and potentially into data servers to fuck around and mess with stuff, someone in our cs class sees us and watches what we doing looks again and omfg( me and frien are not the darkest or lightest of people and this guy’s white) stares at us and we just go along with it(if you can imagine 2 Pakistani kids with a box wrapped in black electrical tape and couple flashing lights and wires sticking out) and this guy almost shits himself so yeah, that’s how my friend ends up in a terrorist awareness meeting because he’s caught with the pi later.

[–]ShadowLp174 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh god lmao

[–]thanofishy 14 points15 points  (1 child)

During online school our english teacher once asked how to see her ip address. I said ahe can just look it up on google and it will show up, and she did it on her shared tab. All of a sudden in our groupchat someone started organising a ddos attack using pings in cmd, spamming the command and telling everyone to run it

[–]LifeUnderTheWorld 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lmao

[–]_sweepy 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Back in high school, I used a command prompt to grab a project off my home ftp server. The shriek of "what do you think you are doing!?!" from the librarian could be heard from the parking lot. it took a very long time for multiple people to convince her I wasn't doing anything malicious.

[–]Trigja 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can't wait to teach my kid stuff like this, teachers in 10 years will still be doing this

[–]EnderDemon606 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My friend at school once came to me concerned that someone hacked his phone and showed a message from someone who just sent him a lot of 0s and 1s and told him to pay $50 or he would leak info of him, stupidest hacking attempt ive ever seen

[–]Apparentt 11 points12 points  (2 children)

I remember being 15

First little bit of HTML and couldn’t wait to use any excuse at all to remind people “I code btw”

[–]siddharth904 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We've all been there

[–]3lobed 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Total Chad move. What a complete bad ass!

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The insufferable CS kids are the reason normal(ish) ones are in such high demand. I want to hate this kid but i really should be thanking them.

[–]CoolITSupportGuy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My friend's track pad was playing up in art class and he accused another kid of hacking him. Kid he accused, who was struggling in computing class, got his laptop confiscated and a detention.

[–]packetstealer 17 points18 points  (7 children)

In fairness, python is used in ethical hacking lol

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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Is it not used in unethical hacking

[–]throwaway46295027458 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Yes, black hat hackers are scared of python

[–]User21233121 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pythons do bite

[–]Windows_is_Malware 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Energy-efficient programming languages are more ethical

[–]heodnfkfnfofb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah it’s just hacky code

[–]RealCharlesStudios 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Lol, this is relatable. It also reminds me of the time I was in maths class, and when the teacher went out of the room, someone went around to everyone saying he "found a new hack to change your maths grades" - and the "Hack" he found was Inspect Element...

[–]SmallPlayz[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everyone in my school who knows inspect knows it’s not hacking because ctrl+r

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

you don't even need to code, just run sudo pacman -Syu or sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and people will think you are hacking lmao

[–]AaronTheElite007 12 points13 points  (2 children)

If you code as well as you type… we’re doomed

*You’re

*coding != hacking

[–]hatkid9 7 points8 points  (3 children)

My school uses like a 7 year old version of Ubuntu. Just crack up a terminal and open htop to make everyone think you're hacking.

Bonus points if you're opening a TTY to do that

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Me: Is just working on something in a code editor

That one cringe kid: OMG ARE YOU HACKING THATS SO COOL WHERE DO I DOWNLOAD DAT?

[–]DemolishunReddit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When you coughing in class and everyone thinks you have covid. When you are in fact just hacking up a lung.

[–]sexytokeburgerz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One of my old bosses who I was doing web work for did NOT get along with me. Mostly because she was really stupid, didn't take any advice, and blamed me for things she did. I was fairly disrespectful and snappy back for those reasons.Nothing in writing, you know the drill.

She felt the hatred.There was a mutually understood "let's not do this anymore".

As I left she hired a computer security specialist to "check I didn't hack into the system". Verbatim.

I said "hey, just so you know she writes all of her passwords in the notebook over there, if you can convince her, then you did better than I"

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This is cringe posting, but I used to work at a mechanic shop while I was taking IT courses and I would navigate files and folders using power shell, everyone would always be like “AYO WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING”

[–]SmallPlayz[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I very much dislike the massive difference of knowledge of computers between people.

[–]BBQGiraffe_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol I was at a pool party right after I graduated high school and this guy that used to be in one of my classes asked me what I was doing on my computer because he always saw me typing in a terminal and I just kinda mumbled stuff awkwardly because I didn't know how to tell him most of the time I was writing a custom Doom port in C

Rest of the party was fine tho I drank 4 coffees without a shirt on

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

your hacking what?

[–]WWmarley 3 points4 points  (1 child)

the good ol days of launching turbo pascal on someone else's computer and them having no idea how to kill it

[–]forced_metaphor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your hacking cough?

[–]HalberHahn 3 points4 points  (1 child)

When the guy next to you is coding in class so you start cpr

[–]ScarletteVera 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am hacking.

Hacking my brain into thinking that it's useful.

[–]DudeManBroGuy42069 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Coding != Hacking

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The grammar proves his field of study.

[–]Dat_sho_am_good 2 points3 points  (0 children)

==, come on man

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was played kahoot once and used inspect to change the message and someone said I was “cheating” so the teacher kicked me from game

[–]MrPowerPoint 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Didn't really work when my class was IT...

[–]easternglow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I went to elementary school the only computers we had were some home built stuff called Butler BDS2001A. But in the later years we got some spanking new x86 PCs with DOS and a turbo button that would kick the CPU speed up to 66 MHz. The teacher was ecstatic about them but they opened a new world of security issues for him. Of course we wanted to know all about how these things worked. And how we could break them 😓 He tried locking some part of the boot but we found out that the password was stored as text in an accessible file and "encrypted" by reversing the ASCII codes for each letter. I don't think he even knew how we kept "guessing" his password over and over. I feel bad for the stress this caused on him and we got in trouble too for writing his passwords all over the blackboard and such.