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For a lot of kids, this is the same as ringing a door bell and running with your friends. Honestly if I were a kid today I wouldn’t be able to resist the urge t

For a lot of kids, this is the same as ringing a door bell and running with your friends. Honestly if I were a kid today I wouldn’t be able to resist the urge to troll our remote class meetings with my friends.

brink 7y ago
I got a felony (which was later dropped) pressed against me for something like this. Changed my highschool's website to a rickroll, ended up in cuffs.
- Craighead 7y ago
  Thats not the same thing at all. You probably violated usc 1030 b-e
- flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
  So how did you do it?
  - brink 7y ago
    The system admins used the same password for everything. We ran the windows password file against a rainbow table. Once we figured out the password and that it worked on the admin portal to the website, we couldn't resist for the laughs.
    - flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
      LOL I don't blame you! Nice work! Sounds like you were a bright, bored kid! What are you doing these days?
      - brink 7y ago
        Thanks! Still a hacker. Mainly JS, React, Rails, and Flutter these days. :)
  - runawaybottle 7y ago
    Or possibly a more apt question, how old were you when you decided to do this?
    - brink 7y ago
      18
- zeepzeep 7y ago
  > Changed my highschool's website to a rickroll Sounds like more than joining a meeting you're not supposed to join (and share your screen). Sounds like actual hacking, like an actual crime. But I'm on your site, if a student can hack the school, the school should be charged for having such vulns. Same logic on zoom: if you don't have a password / leak that password, it's no wonder that people join. If you design a system so anyone can enter private calls by guessing 9 digits, you're not making private calls.
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DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge. I don't mean that judgmentally. I'm just curious if/how various factors (pyschology; impulse control; family environment; etc.) come into play.
- runawaybottle 7y ago
  Ringing the bell and running is a massive adrenaline rush. Trolling the teacher in school is just plain fun. I’m rolling with the parallels today, but again, it’s the same as throwing a paper ball at the teacher when they turn around to write on the board. Most kids in the classroom don’t do it, but it’s just a ton of fun because the teacher doesn’t know who in the crowd did it (and the class doesn’t rat anyone out). You effectively disrupt class for several minutes, and the majority of the class loves that. Same is probably happening with Zoom, the kids are deliberately sharing the links. Now, if you’re looking for a answer along the lines of ‘are there particular kids that are hyperactive and lack impulse control’, you won’t get that answer from me. Most of us grew out of this by High School, and we’re all doing fine. But, you couldn’t take the joy of doing this stuff away from me in Middle School.
- new2628 7y ago
  There is one word to describe that mentality and mindset. It also appears in the name of this site we are commenting on.
- marcosdumay 7y ago
  > I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge. Friends pushing (or being in awe of) it
DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
growing up in the 70/80ies making prank calls to random people was one of our most fun things to kill boredom. my fav one was we called some rando and ask for "Frank". The obvious answer was "There is no Frank". You repeat this a couple of times until they get really annoyed, then wait a few hours and have the second person makes the call and say "This is Frank, has anyone called for me?" Another one was us calling a classmates parents home who we didn't like and who liked to bully us. Convince the parents that the son filled out a form for a raffle at our mall and he won and the parents should come to shop XYZ to pick up the price. Knowing personal info helped with the social engineering ofc. All this today would create a sh1tstorm but it was business as usual back then. Nobody cared and some people/victims actually saw the humor and even laughed.

brink 7y ago

I got a felony (which was later dropped) pressed against me for something like this. Changed my highschool's website to a rickroll, ended up in cuffs.

Craighead 7y ago
Thats not the same thing at all. You probably violated usc 1030 b-e
flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
So how did you do it?
- brink 7y ago
  The system admins used the same password for everything. We ran the windows password file against a rainbow table. Once we figured out the password and that it worked on the admin portal to the website, we couldn't resist for the laughs.
  - flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
    LOL I don't blame you! Nice work! Sounds like you were a bright, bored kid! What are you doing these days?
    - brink 7y ago
      Thanks! Still a hacker. Mainly JS, React, Rails, and Flutter these days. :)
- runawaybottle 7y ago
  Or possibly a more apt question, how old were you when you decided to do this?
  - brink 7y ago
    18
zeepzeep 7y ago
> Changed my highschool's website to a rickroll Sounds like more than joining a meeting you're not supposed to join (and share your screen). Sounds like actual hacking, like an actual crime. But I'm on your site, if a student can hack the school, the school should be charged for having such vulns. Same logic on zoom: if you don't have a password / leak that password, it's no wonder that people join. If you design a system so anyone can enter private calls by guessing 9 digits, you're not making private calls.
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DoofusOfDeath 7y ago

I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge. I don't mean that judgmentally. I'm just curious if/how various factors (pyschology; impulse control; family environment; etc.) come into play.

runawaybottle 7y ago
Ringing the bell and running is a massive adrenaline rush. Trolling the teacher in school is just plain fun. I’m rolling with the parallels today, but again, it’s the same as throwing a paper ball at the teacher when they turn around to write on the board. Most kids in the classroom don’t do it, but it’s just a ton of fun because the teacher doesn’t know who in the crowd did it (and the class doesn’t rat anyone out). You effectively disrupt class for several minutes, and the majority of the class loves that. Same is probably happening with Zoom, the kids are deliberately sharing the links. Now, if you’re looking for a answer along the lines of ‘are there particular kids that are hyperactive and lack impulse control’, you won’t get that answer from me. Most of us grew out of this by High School, and we’re all doing fine. But, you couldn’t take the joy of doing this stuff away from me in Middle School.
new2628 7y ago
There is one word to describe that mentality and mindset. It also appears in the name of this site we are commenting on.
marcosdumay 7y ago
> I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge. Friends pushing (or being in awe of) it

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

growing up in the 70/80ies making prank calls to random people was one of our most fun things to kill boredom. my fav one was we called some rando and ask for "Frank". The obvious answer was "There is no Frank". You repeat this a couple of times until they get really annoyed, then wait a few hours and have the second person makes the call and say "This is Frank, has anyone called for me?" Another one was us calling a classmates parents home who we didn't like and who liked to bully us. Convince the parents that the son filled out a form for a raffle at our mall and he won and the parents should come to shop XYZ to pick up the price. Knowing personal info helped with the social engineering ofc. All this today would create a sh1tstorm but it was business as usual back then. Nobody cared and some people/victims actually saw the humor and even laughed.