When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
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When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
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#2i did something very similar to this in 1998 at high school, good times
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#4i did something very similar to this in 1998 at high school, good times
I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled.
Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercussions was a lot.
There was no precedent (at my school, at that time) for how to prevent and deal with a situation like that, though.
Re: When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
#5i did something very similar to this in 1998 at high school, good times
I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled. Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercussions was a lot. There was no precedent (at my school, at that time) for how to prevent and deal with a situation like that, though.
I've recently been looking into this. Here are some recent similar stories: https://www.edtechstrategies.com/blog/should-we-send-student...
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#6I had to personally apologise to the IT department because I sent a message from 'God' saying "I saw what you did last night" to the entire network (long time ago but it was Novell something) by mistake (was aiming to send it to just the one computer lab).
They thought it was hilarious and that was the end of the matter.
Re: When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
#7I had to personally apologise to the IT department because I sent a message from 'God' saying "I saw what you did last night" to the entire network (long time ago but it was Novell something) by mistake (was aiming to send it to just the one computer lab). They thought it was hilarious and that was the end of the matter.
Similar story here - mine was in the days of Windows 9x; everyone knew about "net send", but few bothered to look into the other options.
I decided to poke at it and see what "/forest" did, ended up messaging the entire network with a harmless "Hello world".
It's shocking to see the ordeal that mmccaff went through; for me it was just a couple of very confused teachers and an IT department that wanted to keep an eye on the troublemaker.
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#8Ah, good times. Win95 used to crash so much, that my brother and I became quite adept at resurrecting Explorer by causing a surviving process to trigger it. Eventually, we discovered the infamous "Login? No, just help yourself to the desktop" hack. No one cared, it was normal for stuff to be broken.
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#9Ah, good times. Win95 used to crash so much, that my brother and I became quite adept at resurrecting Explorer by causing a surviving process to trigger it. Eventually, we discovered the infamous "Login? No, just help yourself to the desktop" hack. No one cared, it was normal for stuff to be broken. https://imgur.com/rG0p0b2
Nice. I never saw that one. I used the password rename trick from DOS. You'd think it would cause problems by looking weird. Trick for that was doing it on non-target's machines and leaving software on there to do glitchy stuff in general. People just shrugged and moved on.
Re: When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
#10i did something very similar to this in 1998 at high school, good times
I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled. Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercussions was a lot. There was no precedent (at my school, at that time) for how to prevent and deal with a situation like that, though.
"I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled."
In-school suspension and police interrogation for me on different occasions. In each, I had actually done nothing but was smart and could have done something. The first was actually a setup by the most notorious hacker in the school who I was showing up a bit with my demos. He had some script downloading and popping up porn on my computer that a teacher saw while I was at lunch. Looking at the times, it added new files to IE cache every 15-30 minutes all the way into the 2-3AM's. My defense was I couldn't possibly be in class surfing porn after the school closed. The non-technical authorities had made up their mind someone would be punished, though. ;)