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Back in my senior year of high school during Spanish class I naively used NET SEND to send a message to one of my classmates. The only problem was that I failed
by broth 7y ago
Back in my senior year of high school during Spanish class I naively used NET SEND to send a message to one of my classmates. The only problem was that I failed to specify the user in the command and instead used *. This ended up sending a message to all computers in the school district.
I remember the computer administrator coming into the class saying “Are you aware one of your students is sending messages to the entire school district?” My heart sank.
I ended up getting in-school suspension. Considering this was my first ever “offense” in school, I felt like a badass going out with a bang.
- gattilorenz 7y agoSame, apart from the suspension. On my first computer science class. That was... not fun. The professor classified me as the annoying kid, until I surpassed his expectations with the first programming excercises :P
- casparz 7y agoA classmate did the same, although the outcome was far worse. We studied at university in the medical faculty, which happened to be housed in the academic hospital. We found out the hard way that the network was not segregated, his netsend command crashed all the ICU terminals...
- wink 7y agoJust that the guy isn't to blame. That's like saying "By switching off the lights in the break room I shutdown the power in all the operation rooms"
- ambentzen 7y agoI did the same in 8th or 9th grade, but on purpose and I sent a crap ton. The admin stormed in and yanked the laptop out of my hands and revoked my PC privileges for ~3 months. Fun.