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Poorly implemented device lockdowns by my school were the start of my interest in understanding and manipulating systems, long may they last!
by fredley 4y ago
Poorly implemented device lockdowns by my school were the start of my interest in understanding and manipulating systems, long may they last!
- coldpie 4y agoYuuup. My favorite instance in I think 9th grade was opening the computer case while the teacher was out so I could pop out the CMOS battery to disable the BIOS password, boot a live disk without the disk protection software (Deep Freeze), edit the Win95 boot logo screen[1] to put a little smiley face in the corner, and then put it all back together (sans BIOS password, since I never knew what it was originally!). No one ever mentioned it, but I'd see my little smiley every time that PC booted. Later, I spent 13 years working in reverse-engeering-related software :) [1] https://www.dslreports.com/faq/3880 https://www.dslreports.com/faq/3880
- lozenge 4y agoThe default admin password for a popular educational software that locked down Windows was "changeme". My school did not change the password.
- RugnirViking 4y agoits excellent! my school only let us modify files in our user network folder, and locked down anything on the C: drive. Turns out, if you could open cmd (you weren't allowed directly, but you could ask a vba script from excel to open one) you could just rename the C: drive to the K: drive or whatever, and that wasn't blocked lol. I'd use it to hide games like https://wz2100.net/ https://wz2100.net/ on particular computers, and show my mates which ones were on which computers, and make little excel files that had macros to open them