[Thorian]

I think the statute of limitations has passed but my freshmen year I took a Bulk tape eraser turned it on and stuck it inside my schools server next to the tape drives.

[Quik]

Ben Goulbourn, on Sep 27 2002, 12:12 AM, said:

guys this isnt Quiks first display of 1337ness

in Grade 7 (thats right, Grade 7)

he got into the office printer and printed threatening messages directly to the school office (rofl)

then he hacked a teachers email acount and sent evil letters to everybody on her list

alas, he was caught

and i think suspended for a week?

lol.. but who cares. Anarchy Rules

hahahahahaha.
Good old times.

The printer thing, I didnt infact do.. I just told everyone how to switch to another printer, and then they busted out the messagess.

The hotmail thing, I admit I did.. Afew years back hotmail had weaknesses in it's URL when your logged on. And well, Knowing as a schools network is on the same I.P, it allowed me to access the account through a few types in the URL addy. (I didn't even know the PW)

[Quizzical]

Note: May not be wise to recreat at YOUR school
We use win98 machines, with C: drive "hidden", plent of ways around it, so i tried, one, Got in C:\Windows\
I decided what they hell, what hard can it do, i opened winpopup.exe which is the win9x alternative, Sent 2 messages ": )" then ": D" Fine and dandy, closed it. Went home. Today i go into school and it says my account has "expired"
My stupid admin recieved the messages and did not like me sending to HIS domain, so has disabled my account, for god knows how long if not eternity. It sucks. I hate Mr Stalker. This will really badly affect the rest of standard grade, higher, advanced higher, and so on, untill he un disables my account. I am really angry at this.
I am gona get him back, maybe by slamming him online, like so for the full story: http://www.quip.myby.co.uk/school/
Oh well, I am messed up for a while.

[Quizzical]

net send * : )
or winpopup.exe send to all the workgroup
does cause the message to pop up on all machines with win2k and higher.
It also sends to every user on a win9x computer who has winpopup.exe running
Im in serious crap

[Thorian]

were you polite in your message, if so then sue them. in the states it seems to be all the rage parents and students suing their teachers for better grades and make shure you notify the local media or the BBC here that crap makes national headlines. at least when we aren't trying to start a war

[SlashRaid]

It sounds as if you need that account for course study... Is that so?

If so, and the message was as innocent and simple as you said, I'd move on to his superior. If the disabling of the account effects your classes, I'd say it needs re-instated.

Raise hell...

[Quizzical]

I bleieve it to be harmless
Apart from the idea it was sent to the whole network, and i sent two, and it could be misinterpreted.
The teacher that did the disabling is the network admin with full access and all, super admin kind of thing, the only superior he has is the head teacher, local area\government council.
I realise it was stupid.
Thing is i can probably get by without it, although certian subjects might be a bit more of a struggle, its not a necesity, more a privelage.
Im depressed, upset, sad, but life goes on...
We shall see how things turn out...

[Quik]

Lame..

I was all giddy about it... she was like .. 'ok.. go down to the office and talk to the VP, i have told them your r coming down'
Im like.. SURE... nO problem!!! see yaa!

and then waiting in the office for 15min, I then said to the vp, this is a waste of time, FOR BOTH OF US!!..

So anyways, I said some bullshit, got my way out of any trouble...

went back to the library to pick up my books... librarian goes "What did she say to you" and I said, "thats not of your business".. and she put her head down.. They are powerless really.


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I was only giddy about it because:
1) I didnt sign the internet/computer usage thing at the beginning of school
2) No where in it did it say we cannot 'apply knowledge of the workstation.. blaah blah'

[Spider]

haha, winpopup is great

and fyi, it doesn't send to the whole workgroup if you don't tell it too, you can select individual usernames easily.

we used to use it all the time, till the stupid admin removed it from all the computers completely

our school network is pretty crappy, although it has been upgraded this year (from winnt network running on win95 comps) and I haven't had much time to mess with it, I know I can still get into safe mode easily, and therefore unlock pretty much everything on any individual computer.

and the stupid admins have disabled windows-e, but now windows-f (find) so it's simple enough to access anything on the computers.

back in the good old days when we had a network of acorn computers, and I spent my lunchtimes in the computer room writing stupid hacking programs, I acheived some pretty great things

my greatest acheivement was probably the virus that copied the entire contents of scsi4 (perma write protected drive) onto scsi5 (data drive, individual for each comp) every time you opened scsi5 on an infected comp. This caused the scsi5 drives to pretty much instantly be filled up and the acorns to lock up during the copy.

I also wrote a nasty virus that erased your floppy disk when you accessed the scsi5 drive on an infected acorn, as pretty much all our work was stored on floppies back then, I quickly removed the virus from the computers as it was just a little over the top

[SlashRaid]

Spider, on Oct 1 2002, 03:27 PM, said:

haha, winpopup is great

and fyi, it doesn't send to the whole workgroup if you don't tell it too, you can select individual usernames easily.

we used to use it all the time, till the stupid admin removed it from all the computers completely

our school network is pretty crappy, although it has been upgraded this year (from winnt network running on win95 comps) and I haven't had much time to mess with it, I know I can still get into safe mode easily, and therefore unlock pretty much everything on any individual computer.

and the stupid admins have disabled windows-e, but now windows-f (find) so it's simple enough to access anything on the computers.

back in the good old days when we had a network of acorn computers, and I spent my lunchtimes in the computer room writing stupid hacking programs, I acheived some pretty great things

my greatest acheivement was probably the virus that copied the entire contents of scsi4 (perma write protected drive) onto scsi5 (data drive, individual for each comp) every time you opened scsi5 on an infected comp. This caused the scsi5 drives to pretty much instantly be filled up and the acorns to lock up during the copy.

I also wrote a nasty virus that erased your floppy disk when you accessed the scsi5 drive on an infected acorn, as pretty much all our work was stored on floppies back then, I quickly removed the virus from the computers as it was just a little over the top

Damn Script Kiddies...

Hope you put that knowledge to better use now.

[Quik]

Actually Raid, ScriptKiddies are used to identify the 'kids' who use OTHER programs(scripts) to cause a problem- like subseven or netbus.

Spider however, has made his own

[Spider]

yes indeedy, I'm not a script kiddy at all

and yes, my skills moved on to hacking the win95 network, it wasn't difficult, but I got bored, cos the network admin guy had all the computer ghosted so he could retrieve them too easily, it just wasn't worth the effort on either of our parts

after I got over my "lets hack the school network" phase I did a bit of game programming, me and a friend made a couple of pretty cool acorn games (considering they were acorns)

and now I'm into web design, and I plan on learning some c++ at some point, but I'm not too bothered at the moment.

[Ben Goulbourn]

Quik, on Oct 1 2002, 03:05 PM, said:

I was only giddy about it because:
1) I didnt sign the internet/computer usage thing at the beginning of school
2) No where in it did it say we cannot 'apply knowledge of the workstation.. blaah blah'

i signed it

but number two works!

[SlashRaid]

Quik, on Oct 1 2002, 04:03 PM, said:

Actually Raid, ScriptKiddies are used to identify the 'kids' who use OTHER programs(scripts) to cause a problem- like subseven or netbus.

Spider however, has made his own

Excellent point.

Spidey here displays some "real" skills/knowledge.

I think a lot of the members here, that talk about these pranks and such, are just showing how they have developed in relation to the use of computers and technology. I'd venture to say a large majority of todays 14 to twenty-somethings started out hacking around in such ways.

[Spider]

I would say it's a good starting point in many ways, even though it can be very destructive, it's certainly very interesting, and certainly got me thinking about learning how to code properly.

If it wasn't for my hacking attempts at a young age, I might have gone for a normal part-time job instead of attempting to earn money coding (and failing )

ah well, such is life