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Summer, 1st year university. I have a summer co-op position doing tech support, which of course bores me out of my mind. Leading to: - learning win32 apis an
by mikeklaas 16y ago
Summer, 1st year university. I have a summer co-op position doing tech support, which of course bores me out of my mind. Leading to:
- learning win32 apis and writing a screensaver that features the rotating bald head of one of the company executives. when the head bounces off the side of the screen, it plays a homer "do'h!"
- mailing a screenshot of the output of DIR of the company's webserver in an IE window on an external computer to the head network admin and other people that would embarrass him. IIS isn't the most secure webserver.
- discovering that by using '../..' I could set anyone's startup script to an arbitrary file. Used this fact to change the head network admin's to pop up a modal dialog poking fun at him.
Needless to say, I think the network admin hated me. Although he did a bad job, security-wise, in retrospect I don't think that it was so necessary to embarrass him publicly.
- pavel_lishin 16y ago> I don't think that it was so necessary to embarrass him publicly. A good lesson to learn, albeit at someone else's expense.