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As a kid I did this with magnify.exe to get around account time restrictions (hi, Dad). Enabling magnifier from the accessibility dialog on the login screen wou
by mintplant 10y ago
As a kid I did this with magnify.exe to get around account time restrictions (hi, Dad). Enabling magnifier from the accessibility dialog on the login screen would pop open a command prompt running under the SYSTEM account. Punching in "explorer.exe" would get you a desktop.
- mavhc 10y agoSmart parents lock down their kid's computer to turn them into better hackers
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoI can't remember where I saw it, but here's how you teach your kids to start scripting: Step 1: put a note on the fridge saying "The new WiFi password is one of the 10 random keys in the text file on this USB drive [taped to note]". Step 2: wait a few days, repeat Step 1 with 10 replaced by 10 000 and also leave them an intro to Python (or $favorite_lang) book. Bonus points if you make the USB drive boot Linux straight to a Python REPL.
- egeozcan 10y agoI had to learn lock-picking first to have access to the mighty computer room, first. After a while I discovered that I could kick the door open easily. Then they realized the door was wobbly and replaced the entire frame. That's how I learned brute-forcing was not a viable long-term strategy.