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IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by flatiron »

_wldu wrote: post #8
belval wrote: post #2

The fact that the administration didn't choose to sue them to oblivion is refreshing. I hope we'll see a trend in the future of educator being smart enough to admit that they made a mistake and to encourage the students to develop their talent. One can only hope.

Being a minor probably helps. There are so many laws today. It's too risky to do this. It's not like it was 25 years ago.

I was suspended for a week for creating a network share in my typing class and dividing the work among my friends and we copied and pasted into a single document on the share. This was on Windows NT though so a LONG time ago. It's also I guess "cheating". But they got us on "computer hacking"

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by flatiron »

dvtrn wrote: post #9
dmitrygr wrote: post #6

Many here, I am sure, got in trouble in high school for exposing security issues in school IT. So I imagine we're all very happy to see a sane response from school administration for once!

I got in trouble once in high school just for discovering and then using `net send` to send a message to my friend that said "Hi from lab 3". Computer lab access revoked for 6 weeks. Jokes on them, now I send socket messages to my friend that says "Hi from Chicago" and there's nothing they can do about it. My friend however keeps begging me to use this thing called 'email' because he claims he doesn't see the socket…

everyone in my school net send bombed everyone all the time. Im not sure how they didn't figure out how to just turn it off.

but i remember you had to do it from a library computer, because it said who it sent it from. so you had to do a little drive by walking net send as you walked out of the library to not get caught

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by johnebgd »

flatiron wrote: post #11
_wldu wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being a minor probably helps. There are so many laws today. It's too risky to do this. It's not like it was 25 years ago.

I was suspended for a week for creating a network share in my typing class and dividing the work among my friends and we copied and pasted into a single document on the share. This was on Windows NT though so a LONG time ago. It's also I guess "cheating". But they got us on "computer hacking"

I used CACLS with an Office hack in NT / 9X to copy homework. Never got caught for that.

They got me on propagating computer games through the network using shared drives the teachers were supposed to use for homework.

We had BNC network cables in those days and the entire building shared a single T1 line for several hundred computers.

The world has changed.

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by ajford »

Glad to see a cooperative and supportive academic administration, and I'm sure the thoroughness and planning that the team demonstrated made it easier on the administration.

The sheer amount of testing and verifying no major impact to academic testing took place probably helped, and cleaning up after themselves and documenting their finding and reporting it to IT was a cherry on the top.

I like that the administration even requested that the team brief the district IT on the "attack".

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by nielsbot »

belval wrote: post #2

The fact that the administration didn't choose to sue them to oblivion is refreshing. I hope we'll see a trend in the future of educator being smart enough to admit that they made a mistake and to encourage the students to develop their talent. One can only hope.

Probably helps that "We prepared complete documentation of everything we did, including recommendations to remediate the vulnerabilities we discovered. We went a comprehensive 26-page penetration test report to the D214 tech team and worked with them to help secure their network."

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by bluedino »

_wldu wrote: post #8
belval wrote: post #2

The fact that the administration didn't choose to sue them to oblivion is refreshing. I hope we'll see a trend in the future of educator being smart enough to admit that they made a mistake and to encourage the students to develop their talent. One can only hope.

Being a minor probably helps. There are so many laws today. It's too risky to do this. It's not like it was 25 years ago.

Yea , kids would get expelled in the old days for putting a screensaver password

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by blacktriangle »

bluedino wrote: post #4
belval wrote: post #2

The fact that the administration didn't choose to sue them to oblivion is refreshing. I hope we'll see a trend in the future of educator being smart enough to admit that they made a mistake and to encourage the students to develop their talent. One can only hope.

I'm glad to see a kid using bash and not something like gulp PowerShell

Credit where credit is due, we all WISH *nix had something like PowerShell. Passing strings from program to program is a pain, passing around .NET objects instead is a great step forward, as can be seen by the several attempts at similar shells passing around JSON objects.
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