I got chewed out at my workplace around 1999 or so. We had a couple hundred SUN workstations on the network and anyone could run commands remotely on any works

I got chewed out at my workplace around 1999 or so. We had a couple hundred SUN workstations on the network and anyone could run commands remotely on any workstation. So I set up a cron job to spawn SETI@home jobs on every workstation every night at 9pm, shutting them down at 6am the next morning. I was way up there in the rankings for a while, until the sysadmins started investigating the strange traffic patterns...