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Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Re: Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Post by chaosmachine »

I learned the hard way back in high school: Don't let anyone see you using a command prompt because the next time something gets hacked, you will be suspect number one.

It's sad to see nothing has changed since the 90s.

Re: Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Post by tokenadult »

Anon84 wrote: post #2

Driving a car in the vicinity of a Bank may be a sign of criminal activity Fortunately, that is not the case in 99.99% of times.

I actually had a police car drive up to my car when my wife and I were resting during an evening cross-country road trip in what happened to be a bank parking lot. The local police did think it was suspicious for a car with out-of-state plates to be be parked near a bank after banking hours. But we just explained that we had been driving for a long time on the nearby Interstate in very bad weather, and were too tired to drive farther until we rested for a while. No big deal, but an illustration of one kind of innocent behavior that can look suspicious.

Re: Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Post by warfangle »

chaosmachine wrote: post #4

I learned the hard way back in high school: Don't let anyone see you using a command prompt because the next time something gets hacked, you will be suspect number one. It's sad to see nothing has changed since the 90s.

Back in college, we were required to take an introduction to computers course - no way to test out of it. It involved labs like, "create a folder with two text files in it." I spent the time configuring a new debian server via ssh.

When the teacher caught a glimpse of PuTTY: "OH! You know DOS??!"

Re: Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Post by something »

tokenadult wrote: post #5
Anon84 wrote: post #2

Driving a car in the vicinity of a Bank may be a sign of criminal activity Fortunately, that is not the case in 99.99% of times.

I actually had a police car drive up to my car when my wife and I were resting during an evening cross-country road trip in what happened to be a bank parking lot. The local police did think it was suspicious for a car with out-of-state plates to be be parked near a bank after banking hours. But we just explained that we had been driving for a long time on the nearby Interstate in very bad weather, and were too tired…

let's also point out that in this example, the police did exactly their job.

had they seized your car and belongings...

Re: Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

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Post by ja27 »

something wrote: post #8
tokenadult wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually had a police car drive up to my car when my wife and I were resting during an evening cross-country road trip in what happened to be a bank parking lot. The local police did think it was suspicious for a car with out-of-state plates to be be parked near a bank after banking hours. But we just explained that we had been driving for a long time on the nearby Interstate in very bad weather, and were too tired…

let's also point out that in this example, the police did exactly their job. had they seized your car and belongings...

Well, if the bank robbers had left a note with their name and address on it, they would have been justified.

D-bag kid's forged emails were traced back to his IP address, which then led to his SMB name and MAC address. It'll be hard to get out of that.

Plus, unless I'm mixing up the censor squares, it's his roommate that made the accusation in the first place.

So it's not really like they just picked on a random kid with bash skills.

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