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I feel so dumb when I read kids doing these things. Back in High School all I knew was how I could run arbitrary executable files by renaming them to calc.exe. We also did the classic "take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the wallpaper, then remove all icons and the start menu" thing.
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O mannn I was suspended from HS, and banned for 2 years from touching school computers for net send shenanigans as I wasn't smart enough to cloak the originating workstation. My message to every single computer in our HS: "Hey what's up!" my friend added to this: "Your network (H:/) drive is being deleted." School administrators and teachers did not find this funny.
> and banned for 2 years from touching school computers for net send shenanigans Ha, yeah I got banned for using net send as an IM app with friends too. There were a couple of us in my school who were skilled, enthusiastic programmers - it is kinda stupid that the punishment they decided on was to prevent us from being educated :-/
*HELP. on a BBC Master
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I haven’t thought of net send in years. Circa 2000 I worked at Cisco and added some javascript to my profile in the corporate directory that sent me a net send message with the hostname of the computer that viewed my profile. At that time the hostname usually included the employees username, so I had a nice heads up that somebody was looking me up. I should have left it at that, but Ingot cheeky and also did a net se…
Curious how you escaped a (browser?) With JS to do "native" net send? Assume it was some activeX?
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The students were extremely lucky. The advice given to me in high school (I was working on tech projects after school for several teachers and groups) was to not even try or explore poking around the IT networks it no matter how good my intentions were. All it takes is one grumpy school administrator to feel undermined or to misunderstand your report and you could be expelled. When you're in a position like a student…
He had already graduated, so expulsion wasn't an option.
I realize this is conjecture but I'm giving an example. Speaking from experience receiving "security reports" from users and students, often times they fail to understand the full picture of IT. As a student with no buy-in from the stakeholders, the risk isn't worth it.
For example, let's say this IoT network was managed by a vendor who, while having sloppy configuration practices, also had network monitoring looking for APT/anomalies (such as new connections in off-hours or unusual connection rates or bandwidth usage.)
While the student thinks they're being sneaky and hacking the system at night, opening ssh connections to a hundred devices from his laptop, there are now reports and alarms going off on a monitoring system. Some basic timestamps and VPN access logs would be enough to point to the student. So this student thinks they're creating an anonymous harmless prank, but the IT department is already investigating a malicious actor on their network. How do you think this would end?
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> All the computers displayed a popup window When I engaged in `net send` shenanigans at the local community college, at least the IT staff was smart enough to know where to scramble a runner whenever those dialog boxes popped up across campus. "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" was quite the meme then, but apparently they thought it was some form of cyber-terrorism.
O mannn I was suspended from HS, and banned for 2 years from touching school computers for net send shenanigans as I wasn't smart enough to cloak the originating workstation. My message to every single computer in our HS: "Hey what's up!" my friend added to this: "Your network (H:/) drive is being deleted." School administrators and teachers did not find this funny.
Those folks came to me with a request for some sort of Net Send revenge.
I wrote a VB script which ran in a loop, which randomly 8-10 times a day would get a new message from the BOFH excuse generator and net send it.
Ahh, youth.
It could have been a lot of fun if schools in the early 2000s were as well-connected as they seem to be now. We were still working with overhead projectors at the time.
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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…
I believe the term for this is ‘percussive maintenance’
> With that said, what we did was very illegal, and other administrations may have pressed charges. We are grateful that the D214 administration was so understanding. Note well that the victim of a crime does not get any say in whether or not a prosecutor prosecutes a crime. "Pressing charges" is a myth. The prosecutor decides. Period.
We figured out that our computer class had a few computers infected by the Ambulance virus[0]. So of course we intentionally infected all the computers with it =) On the other hand me and a few of my friends were the only computer literate people in the school and were tasked with removing it in the end. But still, it was fun seeing a whole class of computers have an ambulance run at the bottom of the screen with the…
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I haven’t thought of net send in years. Circa 2000 I worked at Cisco and added some javascript to my profile in the corporate directory that sent me a net send message with the hostname of the computer that viewed my profile. At that time the hostname usually included the employees username, so I had a nice heads up that somebody was looking me up. I should have left it at that, but Ingot cheeky and also did a net se…
Curious how you escaped a (browser?) With JS to do "native" net send? Assume it was some activeX?