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we used to do similar with the Mac's ability to speak using the command 'say'. we'd ssh into a computer we knew someone to be sitting and have it 'say' something while using their name. at least, until one day, the 'say' app was not longer available!
Well the entire county was on the same network. All computers in the school district received my message. Fortunately the message was just "hi", and I think it was only sent once.
Like the OP, in retrospect I saw that the message shows the sending computer+user. Since we had student-specific logins it didn't take long before I was tracked down and reprimanded. I think they even told my parents about it and were threatening suspension etc. But at a certain point it became kind of obvious that the network/configuration was more at fault than a curious kid. So I got off with a stern warning and narrowly avoided a life of crime.
I was working a tech conference, probably around 2001, with about a hundred PCs networked together. A colleague of mine intended to send a simple "net send" message to only my workstation, just as a joke. He messed up the syntax and the popup appeared on every PC in the conference, including the giant screen in the main conference hall. The message: "Fuck you" . He was fired the next day. (Don't feel bad for the guy.…
> Long before FreeBSD, Jordan K. Hubbard earned a spot in Internet history in 1987 when he accidentally attempted to broadcast an rwall message to every machine on the Internet. He stopped it once he realized what was happening, but not before he & the other UC Berkeley network administrators were flooded with complaints.
We used to do this in high school all the time. The other thing we did was access network shares which you could see, but if you tried clicking them in explorer they'd say "access denied". The administrator apparently didn't lock things down very hard so a two-line .bat file: @echo off net use Z: \\administrators Would get us access to all sorts of crazy stuff.
@net use Z: \\administrators
Same series of events happened at my school. 1. Discover net send 2. Discover net send * 3. Get in trouble for using net send * The next step was discovering telnet and the schools smtp server.
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my page didn't load the images (or whatever) in any kind of timely manner, so i bailed on it before they loaded. was there more than just the one pop-up?
Pretty sure there aren’t images, and you received, but were unimpressed, by the outcome.
we used to do similar with the Mac's ability to speak using the command 'say'. we'd ssh into a computer we knew someone to be sitting and have it 'say' something while using their name. at least, until one day, the 'say' app was not longer available!
And if you used the -v option to set the voice to “whisper”, it was super creepy. say -v whisper “Get out of the house”
Saying that in a school lab wouldn't make much sense