• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works
    232·
    7 days ago

    Similar though far less extreme thing happened to me in highschool ~99

    Some kid decided to rename the other kids home directory folders because they were their student IDs, not an easily identifiable name.

    Sure enough, when said students went to log back in, their data was gone.

    They took away MY access because they wanted me to come to the staff room to get it restored so that I can fix it for them.

    Why we had access to all students home directories and data is beyond me FFS. But yeah.

    I did plenty of shit I shouldn’t have done, for sure, but that wasn’t me, and it was the one time I got my access revoked.

    Anyway, it was a good lesson to install a keylogger on a few machines which logged to the local c: and then I got some other accounts for free internet and print credit so there was no more logging me out after that.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    > look at the arch linux news before updating (like a responsible arch linux user)

    > run an update for the os through the command line

    > sudo pacman -Syu && notify-send "Finished updating!"

    > minimize the terminal emulator

    > wait until update is finished

    > close the terminal emulator

    > mfw nothing crazy happens

    look, if you’re using the terminal and your distro shows a lot of hacker-y text on screen when updating, then yeah of course there’s a chance that less tech-literate people are gonna think you’re hacking into the mainframe… still the story is definitely exaggerated

  • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    158·
    7 days ago

    This more or less happened to my friend circa ~2000s. They were technically amazing for our age. When the school “database” was deleted they and a friend were suspended for an entire month, almost expelled.

    Turns out they had warned their teacher that the files were in a public shared folder and anyone could just literally delete them. No backups, these were grades, assignments, etc for dozens of teachers over many years. They were severely punished for trying to disclose a vulnerability essentially and blamed for the whole thing.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      891·
      7 days ago

      Never report vulnerabilities yourself to an organization, always use a neutral, trusted third party to report it.

        • Wolf314159@startrek.website
          251·
          7 days ago

          If you were in highschool at the time, really the only ethical thing to do for someone in your position is to delete all the files and shine a light on their bad security practices, but don’t say anything about it to anyone. It’s that last bit that always gets you in trouble. Absolute candor is something adults almost never want to hear from children.

          • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            7 days ago

            Couldn’t you just rename it to something obvious so as to make people think it was gone whilst leaving all the valuable data intact. mv valuableData.whatever valuableData.thiswholethingisvulnerablefixit

            • Wolf314159@startrek.website
              5·
              7 days ago

              My teacher one year gave me an F because he didn’t bother to grade anything in a timely fashion, also didn’t store (or organize) any student assignments that had been handed in, and when the end of the year came made me go digging through a giant stack of everyone’s assignments to find mine to prove I deserved a reasonable grade AFTER I had already been sent home with an F. I eventually got the grade I deserved, but I shouldn’t have had to fight for it like that. Apparently this was a common routine for this teacher, but lots of students didn’t bother to fight it. It didn’t get fixed until that cabinet was physically emptied and I handed all the assignments back to their authors.

              I am thinking of the teachers. And I think OPs situation is remarkably similar. But kids, being kids, will not be heard by adults when they shout warnings, like “Why haven’t you graded and returned any of my assignments yet this term?” or “This valuable/dangerous thing should be secured, who responsibility is that?” It may not be moral advice, but like the song says, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

              • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
                2·
                6 days ago

                “Why haven’t you graded and returned any of my assignments yet this term?”

                This is not that situation. The database includes everything including graded assignments. It HELPS teachers find the relevant materials because you don’t have to dig through a giant stack instead of doing a Ctrl+F. In fact, you’ll cause a ton of students need to leaf through their chunks of old files and gather their past submissions to repeat exactly what you went through for every single class. What you propose is not at all kind or ethical.

        • Natanael@infosec.pub
          2·
          6 days ago

          Depending on where you are, either the regional / national school system administration, or some random local journalist

        • Gustephan@lemmy.world
          211·
          7 days ago

          None. Just cheat. It will prepare you for the real world better than pretending to respect the authority of morons.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
    48·
    8 days ago

    There’s a program at my job that has a black background and a lot of the commands are written in lines similar to cmd.

    It’s a lot more streamlined now but I use to have to do a lot in there and people would often gather behind me to see what I was doing. I guess it looked like I was hacking because I would type for about a bit and hit enter then start typing again. Literal csi hacking type shit

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      8 days ago

      That’s me all day long with Kong, having to ssh on the data planes so I can read the stupid logs and catch errors as they happen because we have a retarded setup… I often have to do it with an audience and I try to make it accessible for them, but I reckon it must remind them of Neo looking at the Matrix, when I’m browsing live logs on the command line.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    461·
    7 days ago

    I doubt the parents called the police on OP for hacking. Parents just get angry or ground their kids for “hacking”.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    36·
    7 days ago

    This happened to a friend of mine in the 90s. He was checking his email with pine. The lady who ran the school computer lab called the terminal “the black program with the blinking thing.”

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    291·
    7 days ago

    Omg same experience. Bruh I just wanted to watch some youtube on my break but I had to update firefox or smtn and my coworkers thought I was hacking the wifi lolol

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      Same, but I was literally just opening the command prompt and hadn’t even learned to navigate the file system yet.

    • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      7 days ago

      While I doubt it went as far as the parents calling the police, way back when I was in high school, my friend got banned from the computers for “hacking” because he used the command prompt to control the computer instead of just the GUI.

        • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          17·
          7 days ago

          The only reason we had a “computer class” was to learn how to type, and get familiarized with basic office software commonly used in universities. The lady who “taught” the class had some certification of being a “typist”, whatever the fresh hell that meant. I am pretty sure most of the staff had never really used a computer before, even the younger teachers mostly only ever used them to do data entry for the school.

          The ones who seemed to know anything were the art teachers, the music teachers, and the one who really knew things was the AP math teacher, as he had been using computers for complex math stuff for a long time, and was only teaching high school part time. He knew how to code, used unix, bsd, slackware. I wish we had a class where he taught computer something. He also wanted to do that, but they told him no, they only wanted an AP math teacher. He even defended my friend, but was basically dismissed because he wasn’t full time staff.

          • StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.frEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            He even defended my friend, but was basically dismissed because he wasn’t full time staff.

            What a nice teacher

            Many would not dare contradict their colleagues, you know the “Unified Front” strategy, like it’s some war against the children.

            • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              Well, see, this was side money. His real job was at a university in a research/teaching position, so he probably didn’t feel like going against the grain might end his career