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Ahh, the memories. Abusing "net send" in WinNT 4.0 in my first workplace was our daily pastime (all other chat apps were forbidden).
by baal80spam 2y ago
Ahh, the memories. Abusing "net send" in WinNT 4.0 in my first workplace was our daily pastime (all other chat apps were forbidden).
- jeffgreco 2y agoA friend at high school was suspended after discovering the whole district shared a network and spammed our rival school with messages.
- kromokromo 2y agoIt was only a matter of time, with opportunities like that - what did they expect?
- gnat 2y agoAdults underestimate the trouble a kid will cause from boredom and curiosity and self-centredness. It’s a self-serving underestimate (the less trouble we anticipate, the less we need to do now). Pay in school IT isn’t great and frequently there’s a hobbyist going “I can make this [glorious thing] possible” and not thinking ahead to “and I also make this [annoying/ destructive/ unlawful/ inconvenient thing] possible”. Extension to the wider software industry left as exercise to the reader.
- ambentzen 2y agoI did that in 8th grade across 3 schools that shared a network. Got my laptop privileges revoked for a few months. It was just a batch script where I had copy/pasted the same line over and over again, no fancy loops.
- z500 2y agoI was pretty sure I was about to get in trouble when I messaged "wake up" to a kid that fell asleep at his computer and he called the teacher over. The computers were named numerically and in the same order they were laid out in the room, so they could have looked at the printed label on his machine, and the name of the machine the message came from, and counted over to me just as easily as I counted over to him, but they just puzzled over it for a second and dropped it.