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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 exikyut »

moepstar wrote: post #341
specialist wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times... Heh. Nice. A coworker's Mac wouldn't boot. I couldn't hear the hard drive. It was a model with the tip of the spindle exposed. I found a pencil with a gummy eraser. Gave the spindle a twist as I turned the power on. Told the amazed user, "Do not turn off your computer until after you have backed up your data. That probably won't work twice." Goo…

Had a similar experience with the external HDD of a friend of a friend. HDD wouldn't be recognized, sticking my ear to it i could only hear the motor emit a beep-like sound, no spin up. Her masters thesis on it, inaccessible, i've opened up the case, removed the HDD, unscrewed the top and there was the drive arm, stuck in the mid of the platters... Took a Torx screwdriver, turned the platters backwards and unstuck th…

Just for the sake of clarification, where was the Torx screw located? The spindle axis or the drive arm axis? (Or somewhere else?) And how did you unstick the drive arm without allowing the head to contact platters? Just trying to visualize, and failing badly.

Also, awesome ;)

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by nedt »

When I was in school we were trying to improve the IT, but as we "knew too much" and prefered Linux over Netware we weren't trusted. Also everything was run by the teachers, we didn't help either.

Each summer they "improved" security and in less then a week we again had all of the important passwords. Even the one of the top sysadmin - which really was the one he told some students when he was trunk (everyone thought he was joking).

We didn't prank, but instead installed Duke Nukem on the Netware login drive or enabled internet access when the teachers weren't around or didn't want to give us access.

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by worldsayshi »

Calamitous wrote: post #380
worldsayshi wrote: post #273

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> First day on the job, email to boss That email chain could be used to prove that you did what you could before the incident. If you were so inclined.

That’s only if being right matters.

Or if accountability matters.

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by moepstar »

exikyut wrote: post #391
moepstar wrote: post #341

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had a similar experience with the external HDD of a friend of a friend. HDD wouldn't be recognized, sticking my ear to it i could only hear the motor emit a beep-like sound, no spin up. Her masters thesis on it, inaccessible, i've opened up the case, removed the HDD, unscrewed the top and there was the drive arm, stuck in the mid of the platters... Took a Torx screwdriver, turned the platters backwards and unstuck th…

Just for the sake of clarification, where was the Torx screw located? The spindle axis or the drive arm axis? (Or somewhere else?) And how did you unstick the drive arm without allowing the head to contact platters? Just trying to visualize, and failing badly. Also, awesome ;)

iirc, that was on the spindle axis - i only was gently pushing the drive arm near its supporting point to avoid it touching the platters (chances are i did make it touch the platters)...

Mind you, this was not in a clean room and i tried to be as quick as possible to not allow too much dust into the case..

Here's an online article, might even be the same drive (this was a external WD drive, not sure about the capacity, i think 500GB or 1TB): https://dataanalyzers.com/external-hard-drive-western-digita...

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by zenithd »

noasaservice wrote: post #379
brundolf wrote: post #346

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For contrast, I once got suspended from the school computer labs for two weeks for the heinous crime of... running an unauthorized executable from a flash drive. It was Rainmeter; I was showing it to a friend. The IT guy even was like "yeah Rainmeter's pretty cool, I read about it in a magazine". But it was auto-detected and school policy, apparently.

If they were that nazi-like with their IT policy, why wasn't AppLocker turned on? Why report when you can simply administratively deny?

Your presumption of competence is bold.

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by exikyut »

moepstar wrote: post #394
exikyut wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for the sake of clarification, where was the Torx screw located? The spindle axis or the drive arm axis? (Or somewhere else?) And how did you unstick the drive arm without allowing the head to contact platters? Just trying to visualize, and failing badly. Also, awesome ;)

iirc, that was on the spindle axis - i only was gently pushing the drive arm near its supporting point to avoid it touching the platters (chances are i did make it touch the platters)... Mind you, this was not in a clean room and i tried to be as quick as possible to not allow too much dust into the case.. Here's an online article, might even be the same drive (this was a external WD drive, not sure about the capacit…

Thanks!

(...wow that read head is tiny)

Re: 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 aspenmayer »

klyrs wrote: post #133
aspenmayer wrote: post #102

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Your school didn’t have paperclips?

Can't get 'em through the metal detector. Gotta grind down a toothbrush on concrete these days...

Oh, I meant to imply that you would procure and assemble your tools once on-site. What you don’t pack-in, you may not need to pack-out, etc.

Re: IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

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Post by Handytinge »

aimor wrote: post #262
pfraze wrote: post #213

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Used to be that Windows allowed programs to hook into each others’ event busses. (It might still, I’m not sure.) This might be why a few of my Highschool’s computers would interpret every 5th right click in minesweeper as a left click

I ran into a fun bug in W10 where my arrow keys were moving the mouse cursor around. Turns out MS Paint does this as a feature and somehow it leaked beyond Paint. https://superuser.com/questions/1467313/mouse-pointer-moving...

Wow, that's been happening on one of my machines for weeks! I always have mspaint in the background to edit screenshots. Thanks!
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