> Problem was, there was only one person in the entire school they felt was capable of such nonsense I found myself sitting in the vice principals office, as a

> Problem was, there was only one person in the entire school they felt was capable of such nonsense I found myself sitting in the vice principals office, as a kid, all alone with his password under his keyboard. I thought long and hard about going to the local library, dialing up to the school network (modem days) and changing a bunch of grades of students to improve my GPA. That reason you called out is the only reason I did not. All eyes would be on me. So I resorted to just mild pranks - took a virus from my library and submitted it with homework - found someone trying to install sub seven on my girlfriends computer. I reverse subseven’d him and socially engineered him to give me his address. Used mapquest and showed up at his house - made a fake virus that pretended to run format c: on my moms computer. My mom had the principals office call me out of class in 6th grade. I remember laughing my ass off that I got called out of class for that prank - in college I wrote a program that would split up audio files into variable lengths up to 1 second and send them to a list of servers (sun ultra 60s) then run auplay to play the audio of the files out of the speaker. The controller would keep track of which system had which part and would plAy the audio in sequence across the various systems. The sun servers were lab computers with users on the console. Imagine their surprise when Mega TeamFortress sounds start playing in surround sound out of all of the systems around them. - scotch tape over the very end of Ethernet cables on desktops (fun!) - vb or c# program that “jiggles” the mouse pointer. I made a coworker throw out three mice because of it - redirecting a coworkers network drop to a spare Linux computer in my office running tc introducing random latency - control-alt-down on windows computers - random times in cronjobs that runs shutdown or randomly kill shell process on unix boxes/accounts that were left unlocked There’s probably more, but whew I haven’t pulled a prank in over a decade!