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I did exactly the same with the loop and net send when I was 13-14 years old. The school was connected to the city's network somehow so the IT department was no

I did exactly the same with the loop and net send when I was 13-14 years old. The school was connected to the city's network somehow so the IT department was not very happy. They figured out it was me but were nice enough to just say "if you ever want to test something like that again, just check with us first" and I got an internship with them the following year. I'm very grateful for their gentle and pedagogical approach.

DrPhish 8y ago
I liked to use the samba smbclient tool to pipe output of the fortune program to the network...offensive ones only of course...at random times to random netbios stations Never really got in trouble for it. It was a simpler time. I can only imagine what would happen these days!
sandos 8y ago
I was about 17 years old and IRC was very hot at the time in school. We had a, for the time, very fast 512Kbps internet connection, and I had gotten used to be able to "ping people out from IRC", no idea why I would do that, but hey I was 17. I was experimenting with ever bigger packets, until I hit something very close to 2^16 but not just. Until the friendly admin just suddenly stood behind me, tapped my shoulder and said: "If you step away from the computer, let me look at what you did here, there will be no repercussions for doing shit you were not supposed to on a school computer". Turns out I managed to send a "ping of death" and the network gear in our own school had just died. Internet was so unreliable back then that I just assumed things were a bit slow....
- ineedasername 8y ago
  I like this approach. Kids are going to test their limits, try things out of a natural curiosity of "what if..." without always understanding the consequences. The whole "just because you can doesn't mean you should". Dealing with it as a teachable moment seems the best way to go for minor infractions lime this.

DrPhish 8y ago

I liked to use the samba smbclient tool to pipe output of the fortune program to the network...offensive ones only of course...at random times to random netbios stations Never really got in trouble for it. It was a simpler time. I can only imagine what would happen these days!

sandos 8y ago

I was about 17 years old and IRC was very hot at the time in school. We had a, for the time, very fast 512Kbps internet connection, and I had gotten used to be able to "ping people out from IRC", no idea why I would do that, but hey I was 17. I was experimenting with ever bigger packets, until I hit something very close to 2^16 but not just. Until the friendly admin just suddenly stood behind me, tapped my shoulder and said: "If you step away from the computer, let me look at what you did here, there will be no repercussions for doing shit you were not supposed to on a school computer". Turns out I managed to send a "ping of death" and the network gear in our own school had just died. Internet was so unreliable back then that I just assumed things were a bit slow....

ineedasername 8y ago
I like this approach. Kids are going to test their limits, try things out of a natural curiosity of "what if..." without always understanding the consequences. The whole "just because you can doesn't mean you should". Dealing with it as a teachable moment seems the best way to go for minor infractions lime this.