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Very short backstory: I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school (utilizing interactive startup on windows 95 to not start the "for
by eof 8y ago
Very short backstory: I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school (utilizing interactive startup on windows 95 to not start the "fortress" process.)
For a final project presented which was ostensibly a limited auto-translation application, I made an application which just popped up an alert, "program unable to run due to security"
Got an A!
- aidos 8y agoUpvoted you because me and a friend did exactly the same thing. The IT guy was really pissed about it, but we didn’t think it was such a big deal. Nothing came of it in the end but I think we were banned from the computer lab. Pretty backwards priorities on behalf of the teacher in retrospect.
- stordoff 8y ago> I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school I wonder how common this is. I've seen it happen at my school - when you have a VNC server on every machine with a 3-character password (three guesses what that is...), the local admin password on every machine is school, and the domain admin password is a single dictionary word, bad things are going to happen.
- ryan-allen 8y agoOur school spent loads of money security their network with some Novel boot thingo. I bashed in some DOS interrupt keystrokes and was able to bypass it completely. The whole class was playing networked DOOM about 10 minutes later. I thought I was going to get suspended or expelled, but instead the teacher in charge of IT came to me and said "I know you did it, if you show me how you did it you wont get in trouble." The look of disappointment on his face when he saw how easy it was... I'll never forget it. I wonder how much the school paid for that 'security' :)