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I encountered a similar IT manager in high school. I kept telling him that netsend wasn't locked down and that any user could run a .bat. He told me I was wron

I encountered a similar IT manager in high school. I kept telling him that netsend wasn't locked down and that any user could run a .bat. He told me I was wrong. So, I wrote a .bat with a netsend command and emailed it to all staff. Multiple staff clicked on the attachment. Once they figured out it was me, they made me start a computer club with the IT manager as the supervisor of the club. First order of business was locking down .bat execution.

andruby 10y ago
> Once they figured out it was me, they made me start a computer club with the IT manager as the supervisor of the club. First order of business was locking down .bat execution. That seems like a great way to handle this situation. Some ignorant other schools might have kicked you to the curb because you were spreading "malware".
SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
Im endlessly glad that my high school was extremely tolerant of us exploring the system and messing with things as long as we didn't try to cause harm (eg, deleting one file is okay, trashing a whole network drive is not) and reported what we found to the school IT manager. Most of us ended up as techs for the school and district as a student job. Several of those students went on to be whitehats. (Who knows where careers would've gone if they'd been discouraged and come to view the system as the enemy.) They also were way cooler than they had to be about the several times we took down the network or broke the porn filters, or the time we port-scanned a district tech's machine, or had a whole collection of malware on the network drive, or.... I just worry about how students like me would fare in schools these days.
- JChase2 10y ago
  Me and my buddy in like 2010 ended up being questioned by police, then he caught some charges. No fun. All we did was spoof some emails.
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TeMPOraL 10y ago
In secondary school I discovered Windows Registry - in particular, the LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText keys, which let you set a pre-login information dialog. I left a funny message on a computer in the school lab, saying something to the tune of "What a shame it isn't Linux". Two hours later, I faced an angry teacher (who was also a math teacher and the lead teacher for our class). She said something about the next person after me freaking out that "the computer has viruses". Got a bad note for behaviour, spot-check of math homework leading to three F grades, and she also tried to take away my notebook with notes about Windows Registry -.-

andruby 10y ago

> Once they figured out it was me, they made me start a computer club with the IT manager as the supervisor of the club. First order of business was locking down .bat execution. That seems like a great way to handle this situation. Some ignorant other schools might have kicked you to the curb because you were spreading "malware".

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago

Im endlessly glad that my high school was extremely tolerant of us exploring the system and messing with things as long as we didn't try to cause harm (eg, deleting one file is okay, trashing a whole network drive is not) and reported what we found to the school IT manager. Most of us ended up as techs for the school and district as a student job. Several of those students went on to be whitehats. (Who knows where careers would've gone if they'd been discouraged and come to view the system as the enemy.) They also were way cooler than they had to be about the several times we took down the network or broke the porn filters, or the time we port-scanned a district tech's machine, or had a whole collection of malware on the network drive, or.... I just worry about how students like me would fare in schools these days.

JChase2 10y ago
Me and my buddy in like 2010 ended up being questioned by police, then he caught some charges. No fun. All we did was spoof some emails.
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TeMPOraL 10y ago

In secondary school I discovered Windows Registry - in particular, the LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText keys, which let you set a pre-login information dialog. I left a funny message on a computer in the school lab, saying something to the tune of "What a shame it isn't Linux". Two hours later, I faced an angry teacher (who was also a math teacher and the lead teacher for our class). She said something about the next person after me freaking out that "the computer has viruses". Got a bad note for behaviour, spot-check of math homework leading to three F grades, and she also tried to take away my notebook with notes about Windows Registry -.-