At my last job, I snuck in some premature optimizations.
Didn't you get the memo? Those are evil, not just naughty.
Tell us your naughty stories
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#92Crashed countless high profile parties. An example: when I was living in Bangkok, after a Fado opera I walked right into the royal after party. Spent some time chatting with a princess and the queen. Treat the velvet rope as a suggestion. Walk on in casually and confidently as though you have 100% right to be there, half the time nobody will stop you...especially if you are dressed properly.
Everything is a suggestion. As long as you look like you belong, nobody will stop you 95% of the time.
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#93I spent 6 months commuting between France and Germany flying on a Sunday night in one direction and a Friday night in the other. To avoid waiting in airports for any length of time I hacked my boarding passes. I was always flying in economy but I would check in on line and print my real boarding pass, then modify the PDF of the boarding pass and change it to a seat in business with whatever other indications where ne…
Were you not a member of any loyalty programme? If you get silver or equivalent status they let you use the business class checkin regardless of the class you're actually traveling in. No need for any tricks.
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#94Six years ago my brother rented out a beach house in another state for the summer and would let me stay there with some friends. One fun summer week a good friend and I were enjoying the house to ourselves and decided to make a 7-11 run to pick up some much needed snacks and other provisions. When we got back from our adventure my key wouldn't open the door. Unbeknownst to us, this was the one time that closing the d…
Lockpicking skills come in handy in those situations. This reminds me of the time a friend got locked out of his car, but his trunk was open. The car only had 4 doors, however, so it wasn't much use.
In the trunk was a broomstick, some rope and a, erm, we call them "parrot wrenches". Fortunately, one of the rear speakers could be lifted up a bit, so I fastened the wrench to the broomstick with the rope and slid it through the small hole (it was just enough to fit). Through that small hole, I manoeuvred to the rear door lock and pushed it up.
All my friends remember that MacGuyver moment to this day.
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#95I used to work as a salaried employee for a consulting firm. I'd record my hours on a timesheet so that they could bill the right clients, but anything over 40 hours a week was ignored on my paycheck. The understanding was that if ever your hours dropped below 40, you could bill an overhead number to make up for the difference, thus the fairness of not getting paid for overtime. So a year in, I only managed to find 3…
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theft?
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#96Before dropping out of college 25 years ago I took an ASM programming course. The processor was the PDP 11. The official terminals were dec writers to an emulator but I happened to have access to a PDP 11 unix box.
I cut my teeth doing Z80 ASM hacking on a Timex Sinclair and had no patience for this required class.
I wrote all my assignments in C and dumped the intermediate output. The grader always gave me nice comments like "well structured code."
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#97i'm not quite sure whether it's naughty or not, nevertheless. just recenty i thought of starting looking for exploits on different websites and reporting them to administration. during first two weeks, I've found two small communities (one was for writers and second one for designers), and found JS-injection vulnerability on both. On the first one i decided to stay anonymous, and whenever admin displayed info (after…
This reminds me of the time I hacked an online game to get a high score:
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#98In highschool some friends and I came across a method for duplicating items in Diablo II and we sold the items using PayPal by advertising in the chat rooms. We didn't do the actual hacking of the game, but it felt like hacking to get paid hundreds of dollars for essentially digital toys.
More recently my friend and I wanted to throw an Ubuntu release party (also my birthday party) so we decided to walk around campus and recruit Ubuntu Girls. It was surprisingly easy, we wore Ubuntu shirts and hats and just walked up and asked "have you ever modeled before?" invariably they giggle and say no then we follow with something to the effect of "I don't believe it!" and "would you like to try for a good cause?" We ended up with 5 really fun girls to serve the drinks at the party. We are part of the Florida Ubuntu Team but we did it all on our own, we even had to print our own shirts (which was the only payment for the girls).
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#99I spent 6 months commuting between France and Germany flying on a Sunday night in one direction and a Friday night in the other. To avoid waiting in airports for any length of time I hacked my boarding passes. I was always flying in economy but I would check in on line and print my real boarding pass, then modify the PDF of the boarding pass and change it to a seat in business with whatever other indications where ne…
I wonder how many terrorism charges you'd be up on if you did that in the US these days.
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#100On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following: When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance at the person behind me. Neither I nor them had to pay anything.
What country in Africa? There are 54 of them.