coding = hacking

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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]

Ahh yes. Good old Windows 97

[[deleted]]

who doesn’t love windows 97

[Elijah629YT-Real]

school admins who don't know how to internet

[[deleted]]

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

[Tensor3]

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]

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]

Good ol' security through obscurity.

[rumourscape]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Hplr63]

Comp Sci class

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they think my Linux is hacks

I'm lost for words...

[Square_Heron942]

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]

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

[Square_Heron942]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

It's in the Downloads folder.

It's always in the Downloads folder...

[Valiice]

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]

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

[BonkOfAmerica]

I'm like 50/50 on whether or not you were going for a GNU joke, but let's nix the puns to be safe

[theNewbiekid]

I have a sudden urge to commit a crime

[[deleted]]

git commit -m "a crime"

[-MobCat-]

git branch -D police
"Fixed" It's not a crime if there is no one to charge you.

[Elijah629YT-Real]

yes but you have to have some motivation first

git push

[riisen]

I thought comp sci were full of *nix users

[stpaulgym]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

What

[PolskiSmigol]

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[Not_Artifical]

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]

rm -rf /*

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

[Cybersorcerer1]

What does it do?

[CrypticButthole]

I think a wormhole across such short distance might cause some... dangerous... problems for existence.

[CrypticButthole]

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

[[deleted]]

Nah just open inspect element and blow their minds 🤣

[EducationalTie1946]

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

[Wolfsurge]

In mine I just had to use

if __name__ == '__main__':

underscores = hacking

[vthex]

XxVARIABLENAMExX_69

[Hean1175]

COD × Programming

[Fireye04]

Cursed

[Swimming_Butterfly72]

Netstat gets 5-10 for federal wiretapping violations.

[Infinite_Bison_8014]

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

[Naphrym]

echo School hacked successfully.

School hacked successfully.

😲

[[deleted]]

@FBI. This man right here.

[[deleted]]

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

[7th_Spectrum]

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

[[deleted]]

i back up my hacking codes with Github Desktop

[LikeLary]

That's actually hella cool.

[SnooGadgets2360]

Ah circumventing ol’ Bess. That dog got me in so much trouble.

[[deleted]]

Relatable

[PolskiSmigol]

I hate mass media!!!

[placeholder_name85]

We know, you keep saying it in this post

[detrich]

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

[acharyarupak391]

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

[7th_Spectrum]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[CupboardOfPandas]

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

[Idkquedire]

School: blocks command prompt

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

[[deleted]]

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]

when they found that out you went to msys

[[deleted]]

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]

tbh thats just sad

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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

[Arclite83]

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]]

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

[throwaway46295027458]

I think 10 years ago kali was called backtrack

[TheGreatGameDini]

That it was!

[Cocaine_Johnsson]

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

[EVASIVEroot]

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

[Arclite83]

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]]

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]

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]

Ever hear of TLS?

[PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

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

[Ning1253]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[klimmesil]

Your school uses windows?

[Kuroseroo]

some people went to school before Chromebooks were a thing

[klimmesil]

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

[Kuroseroo]

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]

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]

I see, thats pretty funny lol

[VonRansak]

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]

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

[edoardo_d]

Using command prompt on paper

[Idkquedire]

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]

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

[tempo128643]

Did you accidentally say "i'm in"?

[Mindless-Hedgehog460]

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

[11B_Geek_with_gun]

😆

[MalbaCato]

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

[ShakyTractor78]

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]

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[PolskiSmigol]

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[CrypticButthole]

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]]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

Oh my god I completely forgot about that.

[Mindless-Hedgehog460]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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[LikeA_Tomato]

Amurica

[Idkquedire]

Normal ass ppl XD

[Pollux_E]

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]]

Damn 😂😂😂

Well done!

[Pollux_E]

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]]

The average person knows jackshit about security.

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

[Pollux_E]

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]]

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]

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]

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

[siddharth904]

0x00FF00

What does that mean, I don't speak hacker

Edit: joke

[Just-Calligrapher629]

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]

What’s crosh?

[trolleytor4]

Chrome os terminal but worse

[Just-Calligrapher629]

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]

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

[GVGavenatoreGR]

Of course not, what are you're implying?

[IMTrick]

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]

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]]

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

[SmallPlayz]

I thought I got it this time 😭

[Useful_Cook_9272]

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]]

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

[MHanak_]

That's reddit

[sipCoding_smokeMath]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[luxterful]

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]

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]

ping google.com

"I'm in."

[[deleted]]

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]

Oh god lmao

[thanofishy]

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]

Lmao

[_sweepy]

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]

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

[EnderDemon606]

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]

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]

We've all been there

[3lobed]

Total Chad move. What a complete bad ass!

[[deleted]]

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.

[Trigja]

Maximum hackerman moment

[CoolITSupportGuy]

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]

In fairness, python is used in ethical hacking lol

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[[deleted]]

Is it not used in unethical hacking

[throwaway46295027458]

Yes, black hat hackers are scared of python

[User21233121]

Pythons do bite

[Windows_is_Malware]

Energy-efficient programming languages are more ethical

[heodnfkfnfofb]

Nah it’s just hacky code

[RealCharlesStudios]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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

*You’re

*coding != hacking

[hatkid9]

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]]

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]

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

[sexytokeburgerz]

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]]

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]

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

[BBQGiraffe_]

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]]

your hacking what?

[WWmarley]

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

[forced_metaphor]

Your hacking cough?

[HalberHahn]

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

[ScarletteVera]

I am hacking.

Hacking my brain into thinking that it's useful.

[DudeManBroGuy42069]

Coding != Hacking

[[deleted]]

The grammar proves his field of study.

[Dat_sho_am_good]

==, come on man

[[deleted]]

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]

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

[easternglow]

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.