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Breaking and entering vs. playing a harmless video at the end of the day in school. False equivalence.
Unlawful access to a computer network is often a far more serious crime with stiffer penalties. So perhaps you’re right that it is a false equivalence.
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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
Someone I know did something similar, was arrested in their college dorm, and at the sentencing hearing in federal court was fined and sentenced to 5 years probation, and now has a criminal record. This kid is very very lucky. Obviously they violated the CFAA which carries severe criminal penalties. They engaged in actual hacking without any permission or defined scope. And they exploited the system without any respo…
Ah, 2021, such sad times, where we squash our creativities in fear of the police, where you'd think twice before doing something like one of the MIT hacks http://hacks.mit.edu ... I do wonder if they could've secured themselves with VPN and "untraceable" anonymous emails (e.g. asking for a guarantee that they won't be sued/charged), although the teenage bragging rights would've been too tempting. I wonder if it was p…
“Your faith in the legal system is appalling.”
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited." 2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running." 3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High…
I 'worked' for my own high school's IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district. One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom. Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: "pull…
More likely an armature rather than a platter. Violence also worked when the drive would get stuck on a bad sector. Bashing the drive horizontally, while it was on, would sometimes move the arm enough for the drive to reacquire and hopefully not hit the same error on the next read attempt.
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The school district itself was relatively chill, however the individual deans freaked out. Because the penetration report was sent to the tech team and not the deans, the deans were intent on finding out exactly who did the hack to find something to report to their bosses (and according to them concern about the grade book system being exposed?? Not sure how you’re supposed to rick roll a grade book but if anyone has…
>and according to them concern about the grade book system being exposed?? Junior year in high school, I got suspended for "hacking." The tl;dr is that I was using a proxy to fetch assignments for class (because the county decided "yeah, this state run Moodle instance is obviously not appropriate for education" and one of my classes used Moodle) and got caught with the proxy configuration screen open. I wish I was jo…
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited." 2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running." 3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High…
I of course didn’t really know what I was doing. Looking back, this was a very strange punishment. Jokes on them I guess - left Oklahoma after HS and am now a software engineer in the Bay Area.
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited." 2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running." 3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High…
Are you me?! This basically was my experience working for a very large school district in the early 2000's. My favorite was they asked me to train a school bus driver to be the newest member of the IT staff because "they wanted to learn computers", it also just so happened that this person was the only person their budget could afford (less than 40k/year). I worked for them as a contractor for a while and one of the…
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited." 2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running." 3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High…
If I wanted to do something I would be told that there weren’t the resources. If I volunteered to be those resources — in my spare time! — I would be told it’s against policy. If I asked if we could revisit the policy I would be told I was welcome to ask the IT committee (closed door meetings, unminuted) to consider it for their agenda. Time passes. Proposal rejected.
I gave myself one term to see if we could find a working relationship. It obviously didn’t work out so I ghosted them and just did everything myself without asking, out of my own pocket. I felt like an asshole but at some point you’ve just got to move on, especially if your end goal is improving teaching and learning for the pupils.
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited." 2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running." 3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High…
When I was a teacher my school IT was run as a petty fiefdom. I don’t know if it was outright maliciousness, or just extreme anxiety from the IT team lead about job security, but they were universally derided amongst staff (including some senior managers I knew) as being terrible to work with. If I wanted to do something I would be told that there weren’t the resources. If I volunteered to be those resources — in my…
In my one experience in a university, this how it’s done. Just set you own stuff up, hope you aren’t discovered and ideally have a friend high up the ranks.
The administration tool allowed teachers to stop students from using for example the mouse or keyboard, was written in Java and was installed on all computers as a service.
My favorite part was, that the installation setup of the whole setup was laying around on a random network drive. Being naught little script kiddos we started to dump the code an voilà no authentication or checks who is actually sending the commands. This resulted practically us, locking the teachers and even the admins out.
Aaaah, good times...