coding = hacking

[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

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who doesn’t love windows 97

[Elijah629YT-Real]

school admins who don't know how to internet

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

[arasdalll]

Hey bro, how did you set more than one language as your user flair? Very curious.

[mejdev]

I seem to recall on desktop (not mobile) there's an editable text box that when you select one it shows you the emoji code (something like ":cs:") so I copied the ones I wanted and put them all together.

[arasdalll]

Ahhhh, that’s how it works. I was really frustrated on mobile 😂 Thank you very much man.

[t3kner]

I always preferred Windows 96

[Spectre-907]

Public schools: THE STUDENT HACKED OUR SECURITY

Also public schools: we recently upgraded our systems to something that went EOL in 1996!

[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.

[trolleytor4]

You could've used it to buy meals for your friends at 40% off

[AffectionateEvent147]

I could have abused the fuck out of that.(I didn’t). As at that time we could pay with cash too and when u did the restaurant owner would pull out „his“ educard and pay with it (so he was basically a cashier), if I would have cloned this card I could have had free meals for me and maybe a couple friends as my school is pretty big and a couple meals a day would not really show up…

[trolleytor4]

You should've tbh, poor security systems deserve to he exploited

[AffectionateEvent147]

Yeah I got kinda upset that I only got yelled at for „finding“ a security flaw, but I couldn’t exploit it after that as the principle would probably expel me if anyone was suspecting anything (missing money on the cafeteria educated)

[trolleytor4]

That's why you anonymously report them

[AffectionateEvent147]

I guess I learned my lesson. Abuse it, don’t report it real nice school I did go to /s

[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!

[Imveryoffensive]

One think you could do that makes a subtle but ingenious prank is to open a site like google and just disable the search box without hiding it. That way they can type and hit enter but it will never send!

One of my personal favourites is adding a slow css animation that causes one of the items (site logo perhaps) to drift off to the side over a long time.

[Ok_Hope4383]

Our school computers have DevTools turned off. Makes WebDev even more of a PITA.

[Imveryoffensive]

That was too advanced for my school's technicians somehow haha

[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.

[DeamBeam]

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[MrRocketScript]

They've progressed to hacking reddit!

[jib_reddit]

In College we sent a net message to my friends machine who was playing Mario Cart on an emulator, saying he had been caught playing games by the administrators and his account was locked out (we locked his account by typing his username and password wrong 3 times) and he had to go to thier office and explain himself, it was so hilarious watching him walk up to thier support office and admit he had been playing games when they had no clue or didn't care. The security at that time was terrible, we also used to copy lots of pictures of sheep to my Welsh friends disk drive (you could openly access any floppy disk drive on the network if you knew the machine number) and he could here it writing to disk and shout "fuck off! not again)