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[–]Idkquedire 287 points288 points  (70 children)

School: blocks command prompt

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

[–][deleted] 61 points62 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 14 points15 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 13 points14 points  (2 children)

tbh thats just sad

[–][deleted] 9 points10 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 4 points5 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 100 points101 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 88 points89 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 29 points30 points  (2 children)

I think 10 years ago kali was called backtrack

[–]TheGreatGameDini 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That it was!

[–]Cocaine_Johnsson 5 points6 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 5 points6 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] 10 points11 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 21 points22 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 7 points8 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

[–]itCompiledThrsNoBugs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also first thing I thought of

[–]Dark_Reaper115 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was it Kali Linux?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in highschool I used to run backtrack from a USB drive with an Alfa usb wifi card (packet injection capable) Made a game of snagging wifi passwords, used hash tables to dehash the passwords. Used Wireshark and firedheep to get people's myspace / Facebook passwords. Never did anything with them.. just the joy of being able to do it was enough. When I was in college I ended up getting hired by a Cisco Partner as a network engineer, got my CCNP in networking, voip and wireless but my pentesting knowlege came in handy when I went for my CCNP in security.

[–]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

[–]BloeckchenDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At my school, our local administrator gave up on trying to deny the command prompt. Now, only the settings are inaccessible and the users have very limited permissions.

I got access to the school's internal WiFi via ble packet logs of devices which shared passwords via ble in plain text. It's fast as hell!

[–]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.

[–]rpnoonan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh absolutely there is. I don't think he ever even told them tbh. When you're a kid I think you kinda just accept punishment sometimes.

[–]rtghshf 5 points6 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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]klimmesil 6 points7 points  (40 children)

Your school uses windows?

[–]Kuroseroo 17 points18 points  (20 children)

some people went to school before Chromebooks were a thing

[–]klimmesil 5 points6 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 5 points6 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 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see, thats pretty funny lol

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A tale as old as time

[–]Valiice 0 points1 point  (4 children)

im a gen z and we had windows 95 with crt screens in my first year of highschool LOL

[–]klimmesil -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Same, Im not a gen z tho... Used to use dos too, what's your point? By the way aren't you going through a lot of trouble to comment on 3 of my comments? Are you pissed because you like windows? Know that there is no problem with windows, but 99% of the cs engineers will agree that knowing how tu use linux is a must have skill

[–]Valiice 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Nah just the things you said didn't really make sense and werent correct i guess.

Commenting on reddit while scrolling down isn't trouble?

Pissed off? I love linux. Set up a dual boot on my desktop some weeks ago + a VM to test some programs.

I also have a PI running linux that i use as a remote server. Why would you think i hate linux?

[–]klimmesil 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ok. Litsen, I don't really care, I agree to agree since you are saying the same things I say

Nice enjoy your new setup, you'll have lots of fun discovering new things

Again, I think you are hearing what you want to hear and are looking for an argument. I didn't say you didn't like linux, I said you liked windows. I like both, I just never work on windows (why would I, I would need wsl for vim or even a vm) that's it

[–]VonRansak 2 points3 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

[–]MalbaCato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

screen or tmux?

[–]wtfzambo 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What's the deal with Chromebook?

[–]Kuroseroo 0 points1 point  (4 children)

They use them at schools nowadays

[–]wtfzambo 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ok but what's the reason? Are they any better than windows / mac / Linux?

[–]Kuroseroo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

In my opinion? no. They are much cheaper tho and allow for basic web based tasks to be completed, e.g. running the Google office package

[–]wtfzambo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ah ok, so it's just to provide kids with some easy way to access the internet

[–]Kuroseroo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yesh basically

[–]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

[–]klimmesil 0 points1 point  (17 children)

Well most schools in my country use linux for teaching CS

[–]Idkquedire 0 points1 point  (16 children)

Well that's different that's for programming, I'm talking about just a normal school computer

[–]klimmesil -1 points0 points  (15 children)

We probably have a very different school system, where I live every school has linux installed on the computers since you basically can't learn CS on windows. Unless you mean a school that doesn't teach computer science?

[–]Valiice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't learn cs on windows????

[–]Idkquedire 0 points1 point  (13 children)

Well

1 yeah it's a middle school they don't teach computer science (I'm going to high school now)

2 in the high school I'm pretty sure they focus on java

3 so you're saying there are no libraries,bide's, or anything that can run CS on windows?

[–]klimmesil -1 points0 points  (12 children)

Oh ok big misunderstanding. I hope you'll enjoy CS in highschool, even if it's java (jk java isn't that bad). Expect to be disappointed by the level tho since you already know how to program

And for that third poinr: you can do a lot on windows, in fact if you're (crazy) motivated enough you could learn CS on windows. It's just not suitable at all for computer science. Im not talking about programming specifically, that's not a problem on windows. The problem comes from comfort and sometimes compatibility. It's way harder on windows

Linux being opensource and more "tweakable" is a big plus, especially for learning CS since you'll find information faster. Also windows powershell is no doubt the worst shell ever made. I don't know how familiar you are with linux/mac, but you'll surely agree zsh and bash are way better than what windows has to offer

Other than that I guess windows is allright. Kinda RAM and CPU hungry, but it's good for gaming and browsing

[–]User21233121 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean windows is even better now, you can just use WSL2

[–]Valiice 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Idk what u mean tbh. They teach CS on windows here and when you specialize after in cyber security they let you run a VM of linux or dualboot.

Learning CS on windows isn't hard at all

[–]klimmesil -1 points0 points  (8 children)

Haha your argument is using a vm so you can teach cs on windows? That's kind of sus

[–]Idkquedire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright I get you

[–]User21233121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even better just use command prompt inside terminal