great first post haha.
Saying “sup” with `net send`
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#123Someone at my school circa 2008 added a script to one of the startup folders such that whenever a student logged on, it would print the "ORLY Owl" on the default printer for the machine. This led to a lot of toner and paper purchases, and some very annoyed teachers. I had a bit of a reputation at the school for computer tomfoolery, so I was questioned, but I wasn't involved with this one. I do still have one of the print-outs taped to a board in my childhood bedroom though.
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#124This brings back good memories from High School. Here's a bunch of things we used to do: 1. Set fun messages on all the HP Printers: https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/jetdirecthack 2. Bypass firewall restrictions by setting http:// to https:// (later had to resort to SSH tunneling using Putty). Got me banned from our library for a month when I was on Facebook and a teacher passed by. 3. Our student directo…
Definitely did 6. a good amount of times.
The best we got up to was the year we found the admin password for the default image root user in some cached Skype logs. First we would SSH into random people's systems and use Applescript to type random things etc., bonus points if they currently were presenting something. We got bored of that pretty quick and resorted to just selling the ability to do stuff as an admin like installing things.
Earlier in middle school we figured out that the MacBooks the school issued had an IR receiver and the apple remote available at the time could trigger some Fullscreen tools by hitting a button on the remote and aiming at a victims computer, again mostly to disrupt teacher presentations.
Both bits of fun came to an end when some kid figured it out and ratted us out. When they figured out I was selling root access (installed CoD4 for a friend's little brother and changed the root password for them at extra cost, when they couldn't remember what they changed it to the went to the admin) all hell broke loose and they confiscated the laptops to re-image... no fun.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
With regards to point 6. invert macos screen colors. What is the use case for this? and more importantly why bind it to a key combo? For example a left-right flipped screen could be needed in a rear projection setup, but I am at a loss for what you would use inverted colors for.
For reading at night it is a delight to invert colors. Sadly on macOS 11+, Apple changed some color management so it became unusable together with the f.lux app because the warm colors become cold/blueish instead. Unfortunately, dark mode is no proper replacement because it does not invert standard web pages.
I used to really used to like f.lux's darkroom mode for this (and coding at night - it just looks badass).
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#126Sorry, can’t resist the temptation: sup
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#127I don't quite recall how I did it but I have a similar story of ejecting disc trays across my HS and school district. something with novell iirc
When we did this there was a dos command that came with the cd-rom driver. Something like 'eject'.
We also built a program that would monitor a file on a network drive and run new commands when added to it so we could eject the CD and/or show a message on demand.
Only did this within our club that made the school yearbook which had three computers over two rooms in its own lab so we didn't do anything too dangerous.
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#128This exact thing happened with me and my friends in high school, except the random kid who eagerly tried the wildcard net send command chose to write “hey you b**es”, got suspended a few days later, and the IT department never figured out how to disable it (or chose not to).
Later we’d find ourselves logging in to machines remotely to do similar things in order to make it harder to trace. We did this with ordinary windows tools.
We even disguised that we were inside a terminal by creating shortcuts to the command prompt that changed the font, colors, and even the application icon to make it look like we were just running notepad at a glance.
Exactly what we did with this devious set of tools I’m not at liberty to speak of ;)
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#129In High School, I wrote an app in Visual Basic that:
1. Scanned the network for all the teacher's computer names periodically
2. Randomly sent a benign message from one random teacher to another random teacher like, "Hey, want to go out later tonight"
3. Sat dormant over the summer in the computer lab that had our programming class and was programmed to become active when school was back in session in the fall.
Apparently the thing actually worked! When fall came around one of my friends reported to me that he overheard teachers talking about random messages on NETSEND.
I never got caught. Maybe now that I'm bragging about it, as a stupid hacker does, I'll finally get hauled off to the principals office.
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#130This brings back good memories from High School. Here's a bunch of things we used to do: 1. Set fun messages on all the HP Printers: https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/jetdirecthack 2. Bypass firewall restrictions by setting http:// to https:// (later had to resort to SSH tunneling using Putty). Got me banned from our library for a month when I was on Facebook and a teacher passed by. 3. Our student directo…
> CTRL + ALT + Down to flip the Windows screens. Again caused issues for a lot of people who didn't know this shortcut.
Oh man, that brings me back. We always went the extra mile by taking a screenshot of the desktop, rotating it 180 degrees, and hiding the taskbar and all the icons; everything seemed normal, but you couldn't click on anything, and the mouse pointer was upside down and had inverted movement.