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I love reading comments like this, but I admit I'm always pretty curious how the poster ended up in jail. Care to share what your conviction was for?

Crosseye_Jack 3y ago
They right clicked and pressed view source. I’m just surprised they let them out after committing such an heinous act…
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
  You joke, but something like that is a terrifying possibility considering where things like device-attestation is headed, combined with a lack of understanding of the technology, especially the local level (e.g. I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar - I don't expect a local provincial magistrate to be any more understanding-of-things than the fuming head at my school)
  - Crosseye_Jack 3y ago
    Oh, I joke because I know we are not that far away from it… https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-governor-threatens-to-prosecute-local-journalist-for-finding-exposed-state-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-... https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-testers-who-got-arrested-doing-their-jobs-tell-all https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-test...
  - shepherdjerred 3y ago
    > I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar Oh, so, _so_ many times
    - genewitch 3y ago
      I got expelled from high school for holding down shift while booting a windows machine, pre -98. Also suspended (the next year) because someone edited a teacher's gradebook in the "Mac lab" that he left open on an SE; of course the hacker that was expelled the year before obviously edited a single grade for someone they didn't know in a teacher they'd never met. And I went to a Tech. Magnet. HS
  - devmor 3y ago
    I received a 3 day In School Suspension during the 7th grade for "breaking" one of the computers in the library/school computer lab. What I had done was change the color scheme of the task bar/windows. Made even more ridiculous by the fact that the computers had ephemeral drives and would re-image when they were restarted.
    - gmerc 3y ago
      I wrote a dos cli simulator that simulated an empty PC and added it to autoexec.bat. The lab teacher didn’t figure it out and wiped every desktop and reinstalled deleting everything on them. I felt slightly bad. Slightly.
      - devmor 3y ago
        I wish I was that clever in school! The most actual mischievous thing I did was task schedule my boss's computer to change the desktop background to a photoshopped image of my head on Miley Cyrus' body every day on my last day at work.
        DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
        In 6th Form we just played Doom95 and Quake in-between classes, in-spite of Group Policy
  - dmd 3y ago
    In 1991 I got suspended from middle school for "putting a virus on the computer so it would not turn on". (What I actually did was turn off the power switch on the power strip, rather than on the computer.)
    - qingcharles 3y ago
      In 1988 I got in terrible trouble for changing the BIOS settings and "destroying a computer" at my school. I had wheedled all the admin passwords out of the computer teacher's son and then used them to cause all sorts of "fun." I think I had simply changed the computer so it booted from a different device, and it would have taken about five seconds to change it back...
qingcharles 3y ago
I should make a clarification: "jail" in the correctional context refers to pre-trial detention, as opposed to "prison" which is post-trial conviction housing. This distinction doesn't happen in the real world :) So, to answer you question, I did 10 years locked up without conviction. No trial yet. Maybe one day?
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  Wait, what? This wasn't in the US I presume then?
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    Yes. The USA allows indefinite detention pre-trial when you can't afford your bond. I really shouldn't have done a day in jail, but I didn't have access to my bank account or my possessions so I couldn't get any money together to get myself out. I actually did over 8 years straight before I managed to put the money together from the inside. Then when I got out I made an "lol" post on Twitter because the local sheriff's dept was coming to my house every single day and arresting me, dragging me out onto the street and then letting me go. So they took me to jail again for the Twitter post and denied me bail on it since it was such a dangerous post I guess /s.

Crosseye_Jack 3y ago

They right clicked and pressed view source. I’m just surprised they let them out after committing such an heinous act…

DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
You joke, but something like that is a terrifying possibility considering where things like device-attestation is headed, combined with a lack of understanding of the technology, especially the local level (e.g. I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar - I don't expect a local provincial magistrate to be any more understanding-of-things than the fuming head at my school)
- Crosseye_Jack 3y ago
  Oh, I joke because I know we are not that far away from it… https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-governor-threatens-to-prosecute-local-journalist-for-finding-exposed-state-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-... https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-testers-who-got-arrested-doing-their-jobs-tell-all https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/pen-test...
- shepherdjerred 3y ago
  > I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar Oh, so, _so_ many times
  - genewitch 3y ago
    I got expelled from high school for holding down shift while booting a windows machine, pre -98. Also suspended (the next year) because someone edited a teacher's gradebook in the "Mac lab" that he left open on an SE; of course the hacker that was expelled the year before obviously edited a single grade for someone they didn't know in a teacher they'd never met. And I went to a Tech. Magnet. HS
- devmor 3y ago
  I received a 3 day In School Suspension during the 7th grade for "breaking" one of the computers in the library/school computer lab. What I had done was change the color scheme of the task bar/windows. Made even more ridiculous by the fact that the computers had ephemeral drives and would re-image when they were restarted.
  - gmerc 3y ago
    I wrote a dos cli simulator that simulated an empty PC and added it to autoexec.bat. The lab teacher didn’t figure it out and wiped every desktop and reinstalled deleting everything on them. I felt slightly bad. Slightly.
    - devmor 3y ago
      I wish I was that clever in school! The most actual mischievous thing I did was task schedule my boss's computer to change the desktop background to a photoshopped image of my head on Miley Cyrus' body every day on my last day at work.
      - DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
        In 6th Form we just played Doom95 and Quake in-between classes, in-spite of Group Policy
- dmd 3y ago
  In 1991 I got suspended from middle school for "putting a virus on the computer so it would not turn on". (What I actually did was turn off the power switch on the power strip, rather than on the computer.)
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    In 1988 I got in terrible trouble for changing the BIOS settings and "destroying a computer" at my school. I had wheedled all the admin passwords out of the computer teacher's son and then used them to cause all sorts of "fun." I think I had simply changed the computer so it booted from a different device, and it would have taken about five seconds to change it back...

qingcharles 3y ago

I should make a clarification: "jail" in the correctional context refers to pre-trial detention, as opposed to "prison" which is post-trial conviction housing. This distinction doesn't happen in the real world :) So, to answer you question, I did 10 years locked up without conviction. No trial yet. Maybe one day?

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Wait, what? This wasn't in the US I presume then?
- qingcharles 3y ago
  Yes. The USA allows indefinite detention pre-trial when you can't afford your bond. I really shouldn't have done a day in jail, but I didn't have access to my bank account or my possessions so I couldn't get any money together to get myself out. I actually did over 8 years straight before I managed to put the money together from the inside. Then when I got out I made an "lol" post on Twitter because the local sheriff's dept was coming to my house every single day and arresting me, dragging me out onto the street and then letting me go. So they took me to jail again for the Twitter post and denied me bail on it since it was such a dangerous post I guess /s.