Haha, I got a great laugh at the end-of-article scroll. Well played!
Saying “sup” with `net send`
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Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#82We 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.
We used to run executable versions of Quake and Tribes off the Administrative share. No need to install. Just run .exe and it threw you into the LAN game.
Our computers weren't that high spec but we did the same with scorched earth.
There was also evidence someone else found this before us because they had filled this one directory with viruses that had extremely obvious .jpg.exe extensions and basically various thirst trap stuff for creepy teachers filling the rest of the filename to click on it. I think I remember access to all of this was lost when this one kid was dumb enough to actually click something in there and he got blamed for it and expelled, which was pretty funny.
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#83I have very similar memories from my time in the computer labs at school. We also discovered `net send` and got it disabled a few weeks later.
The computers were really locked down to the point that they were annoying to use. Right click was disabled (at least in windows explorer?), among other things. One of my acquaintances wrote a program in visual basic called "Firstname Lastname's Computer Fixer" that was somehow able to disable many of the restrictions on the computer. I remember it was a pretty large window with lots of buttons though I can't remember what they were all supposed to do. After passing it around for a few months it was deleted from all our home folders and I found out that he was suspended for a week and banned from using computers. The computers got even more locked down. Oh well.
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#84just wanted to say I enjoyed the alert() at the end It was an absolute free for all when windows machines started to be plugged into campus networks. The prankster's evolution generally went from net send to NetBus and then to Back Orifice in those days as the tools rapidly made such tomfoolery a point-and-click affair. Interestingly many of the features in these early Windows prankster/hacking tools heavily shaped m…
Sub7!
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#85many years ago I had a fortran class where our lab was a bunch of x-terminals connected to some old SunOS Sparc thing. all of the user sessions used ttys that for some reason were world writeable. anyone who has had the misfortune of writing fortran code will remember that its very column dependent. each line of code has to have certain elements lined up in the proper columns. so, of course I wrote a little script th…
I like this very much, it's suitably evil.
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#86This 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…
Heh, you've reminded me.
I used to go to Fry's Electronics computer department and screenshot the desktop with clickable stuff, then proceed to set that as the background and close all the windows and remove or relocate all desktop items. To an end user, it then seemed like the computer was frozen or otherwise fubar'd. Rinsed and repeated that for a whole row of machines a few times. It was entertaining to then watch people approach and try to interact with them.
I know this is weak kung-fu compared to many stories in this thread is but it was a good time! (at the time..)
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#87My entire school district was in the same domain/workgroup and so I remember sending a net send to literally every computer on the network, 4 high schools (mine had a population of 4K students), 3 middle schools and a dozen elementary schools. The IT department came running into the computer lab to figure out who had done it. I simply closed the window, switched back to MS Word and played dumb. Good times. A few mont…
Do you mean suspended? Expulsion is a permaban and means you have to find a new school to attend.
In any case, your tenacious dedication to the cause was admirable.
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#88This 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…
Heh, you've reminded me. I used to go to Fry's Electronics computer department and screenshot the desktop with clickable stuff, then proceed to set that as the background and close all the windows and remove or relocate all desktop items. To an end user, it then seemed like the computer was frozen or otherwise fubar'd. Rinsed and repeated that for a whole row of machines a few times. It was entertaining to then watch…
I still occasionally accidentally do this to myself when I come back to my phone looking at a screenshot in full-screen... It's almost a sensation of vertigo when you realize what's going on and your brain readjusts.
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#89I remember doing this during one of my first years of college. I would usually finish the lab assignments early, so I would poke around the computers and see what I could get into. I eventually discovered `net send` on the cli, and read through the help to discover that you could broadcast with a wildcard.
So, I promptly ran `net send * All your base are belong to us`.
The immediate result was giggles from all around the computer lab. As soon as I realized I had sent it to every computer in the lab, I realized I had no idea what other computers I had sent it to. I decided my best course of action was to log out of the machine and switch to another one.
About 5 minutes later, a couple people came into the lab, going straight to the machine I had sent the message from. They looked around, asked the room if anyone knew who was using the machine, got a bunch of noncommittal shrugs, shrugged themselves, and left.
A couple weeks later, the Messenger service was disabled across the campus. I found out from someone that the message had popped up on every machine on campus, interrupting presentations and leading to some slight confusion on the part of teachers all over.
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#90Same experience as OP and others here in discovering this setting (also in middle school). While sitting next to a friend I jokingly typed out "net send * [our third friend's name]" intending it as a "haha wouldn't that be wild. OK let's delete this now" quip, but my friend reached over and hit ENTER, we ran away from the computer like it was radioactive, and later discovered it was sent school district wide. We had used a non-user specific account but cracked under the pressure of being grilled as the obvious suspects for any computer shenanigans at our school and being good friends with friend #3.
The third friend's father was LIVID that our friend's name was besmirched by being placed in the contents of the pop-up, later threatened me over the phone, and put pressure on the school to throw the book at us (fulfilling his promise to "TAKE THIS TO THE MAT!"). My friend and I were suspended for a day and banned from visiting the high school computer club for some weeks.
From the district IT perspective the middle school's punishment somewhat backfired because news of our suspension resulted in many more students across the district learning about the command, greatly increasing the # of incidents and becoming a district-wide. They weren't able to figure out how to turn it off for a year+ after. As a temporary measure they made the printer in the high school library print out the originating computer of every net send message, which often backed up printer and caused the HS librarians (my mom happened to be the head one lol) to have to remove these useless sheets from the printer all day.
0/10 would not recommend glob experimentation