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I once got detention for “hacking.” All the school computers were on the same network, so if you opened Computer Management, then selected a different computer on the network, you could… get this… eject the disc drive on unsuspecting people. They’d be on their computer, 15 feet away, and then I’d click a button and their disc drive would eject, momentarily confusing them.
Librarian saw me using the “My Computer” folder to get to Computer Management, apparently that was proof enough. How is using available folders on the computer “hacking”? I have no idea, didn’t seem to be relevant.
I was banned from using computers at my highschool for hacking. I installed Firefox. Turns out the parental control program the school used only worked on Internet Explorer, so you could visit any site you wanted with Firefox. Hackerman!
My parents installed “Net Nanny” to keep me from watching porn or spending too much time on the internet as a middle-schooler. (Trust me, they’re good and accepting parents.) Anyway, I figured out that all you had to do was not click “okay” on the startup-induced message window and Net Nanny never started the controls or timer.
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I come just imagine sometime reading too much into it, that’s all… It’s the internet.
Unfortunately, school networks are often set up by people better qualified for teaching other subjects and as such they often leave things open for enterprising, morally undeveloped, children to get their metaphorical tendrils into.
This is how I ultimately ended up being banned from all computers in my school except one. It took them a while to figure out how to do that but I guess it became a priority what with all the “scary” things I was doing.
As I understand it, I was still getting the blame for things after I left.
way back in the early oughts i was in a tech enjanced learning program - on paper it was a solid idea. Small class size with hands-on support from our schools more tech literate teachers.
in practice we pretty much just tried to play quake 3 with each other withojt getting caught.
our teacher was on a years long crusade to find the server hosting the quake 3 installer, as we had software that locked the hard drives so any changes would be undone when rebooted. to my knowledge he never did, and the entire drama around it was hollarious.
Classic story
Yea, that happened.
I live in the US. People are absolutely that fucking stupid.
Maybe if this happened in the 1990s, but I seriously doubt it in the last 25 years. That post said other students were using chromebooks so we know it wasn’t in the 1990s. Middle and High school kids are flashing ROMs on their phone by themselves these days. Even those that don’t understand command line know its used more than just “for hacking”.
Also on the high school “trouble” list, I have a hard time imagining the overstretched school system cares about anything other than students committing violence against teachers or each other, teen sex, drug use/sale on campus, possibly nicotine use, or possible consequences of poverty on students (hunger, clothing, hygiene). You know, normal teen stuff.
I was sent to the principal for doing my HTML homework for a web design class in the library because the librarian accused me of hacking.
I was told by the superintendent of the school district’s IT department to never do that again.
Obama was fresh out of his tan suit debacle.
I have a friend that has been trying for the past 2 years to get me to stop using Linux because its a “security risk”. My wife is also scared of piracy and adblockers. This is what most people are like.
You are in a tech-literate bubble.
Uhh, kids today dont know the ctrl+f command in a pdf viewer. They grew up with ipads.
Its rare I see one that knows anything about how computers function. Most dont know what a folder is.
*the above are all real things I had interns ask in the last few months.
Even those that don’t understand command line know its used more than just “for hacking”.
I don’t think Hollywood has caught up yet. It doesn’t even have to be a console, just any window with some code scrolling by fast equals hacking.
I was on my Gentoo linux laptop trying to find an open WiFi network on a sidewalk when someone came out of the nearby bank to shoo me away because she was told I was “trying to hack the bank”.
I was just trying SSH into my school account to send an email using PINE to let my parents know my train was 5 hours delayed. This would have been 2005 or so.
Not even in the 90s since many people would have known what a command prompt was since we used it to launch programs. The only way someone is acting like op’s greentext is if they had never used a computer but had watched a bunch of “hacker” movies. And for an entire school and police department to believe it and no one says “that’s how I launch my Doom”? Not happening.
The cops were the only ones in this story who didn’t believe it was hacking. They actually hired someone to check what was hacked.
I dunno, when I come across someone who has done the following to a PDF:
- Resized all the PDF pages into one size
- Bookmarked the PDF
- Bates numbering
- OCRed
- All the documents in one PDF
I give them a silent congrulations.
Far too often it’s “I printed all the documents and then scanned them as one PDF. Also what the fuck is bookmarking or OCRing or bates numbering?”
People are dumb. I used dark mode on my laptop and people thought I was doing some serious shit.
It’s true, I was the shell command
I was once fired from a helpdesk job because a security guy overheard me summarizing a Kevin Mitnick book to a coworker, thought I was planing to do what I was explaining and notified my supervisor, who informed his supervisor and so on until it went all the way to the fucking CEO and back.
I was summoned to HR the next day and I had to explain in writing to 5 different people that they’re all idiots and show them the book I was referring to.
I applied for a different position in the same company 3 months later and was hired for another 8 months.
I once was reported by the high school programming class for “plagiarism” because I used visual studio’s auto-generated template to start my homework.
The teacher reported it to my parents, he wanted to make me fail. I was also reported for creating a “hidden” chat app that I shared with my friends. (It didn’t show in the taskbar.)
Next Christmas, they bought me a visual studio license at home!
Yeah, a lot of people don’t know shit about computers. When I was working as a commissioning engineer, we would ping devices after using bootp to make sure the setup was successful. I got so many comments from electricians, millwrights and plant personnel just for using command prompt. “Oh wow you’re hacking!” Or “You have logged in to the matrix!” I’m sure sometimes they were just joking but most of them truly believed I was doing some high level stuff.
I believe this to a degree based on my personal experiences with being thought of as either a brilliant wizard or evil hacker for unimpressive things. It even would happen at different jobs until my current job where my boss is the opposite. he thinks that anything and everything is possible and should be “easy” despite being technically illiterate. His new AI obsession has made it so much worse. I actually miss the super annoying “OMG you can do that? You’re a wizard/hacker/demigod!” days.
This whole “boss loves ai” trend is the ultimate cringe.
I got in “trouble” for visiting hackthissite as a freshman in high school and junior year I got an NSA pamphlet specifically sent to my guidance counselor for me.
i didn’t get as far as sql injections. Maybe they thought I was good at covering my tracks.
This was before my first boxed Linux purchase of Mandrake, but learned to dual boot on the home’s 300 ton HP w/ 2gb hdd (98SE, I think) and was fucking around with alternate shells like Afterstep, GeoShell, bbox, LiteStep, etc.
Learned about doing away with the standard ui completely and putting all the menus into right click, so there were times I’d walk away leaving just a wallpaper and cursor. Family couldn’t figure how to do anything, so I pretended I’d hit some key combo to bring menus which just baffled the fuck out of them, got labeled a “hacker”.
Very first os was, as a 7 yo, DOS 2.0 on my grandfather’s dual-floppy IBM (to keep a text file of my baseball cards), and a friend of the family who worked at JHU/APL in video production would let me mess around with the 3.11 boxes at the Kossiakoff center.
I envy your childhood !
I’m really grateful for having had it and the support structure I had at the time, and have tried to make the most I can of what was given to me, and what I learned.
Meanwhile im just starting now to grasp basic coding even though I’ve been computing for 25 years , ha! Gotta start somewhere.
That’s about where I am. I’ve mostly been hardware and futzing around, but coding wasn’t really ever my bag, I guess.
Yeah I more enjoy building pcs from spare parts and making stuff work
apt install -y hollywood && hollywood
nix-shell -p hollywood --run hollywood
my friend and I used to use net send to message each other on the school network (this is back in the 90s), then someone worked out you could send to all PCs on the network, sysadmins were not happy
I’ve worked IT in schools and the hoops kids have to jump through to do similar stuff on our networks is so much harder
there was an art to boot disks. getting one just right, so you could load that one program and nothing else. I kinda miss that. not really, but kinda. kids these days will never know. now that was hacking.
I believe that at least one student saw and jokingly asked if it was hacking.
Fake as fk, no one think it’s hacking, they think it’s programming
They think hacking is when you rapidly type while stuff flashes across the screen
This is definitely it.
I was the HBIC of Dave & Buster’s arcade for a few years. The big halo shooter game was bugging out with some auto updates from a USB drive. So I just called the people directly and asked them for a command line.
I used a small wireless keyboard the size of an old 360 controller keyboard. So it took me maybe a minute to type the whole thing after getting Internet access to the fucking thing(a project in itself). When I hit enter a crowd started forming with oohhhhs and awwws. I’m a hardware person, I can multimeter stuff and solder replacement components (which is apparently magic to the store manager cause we stopped buying whole replacement boards). But know absolutely dick all about programming other than an intro to SQL class in college that I’m sure I’ve forgotten most of by know. And there was more than one “to dawg he’s hacking like the movies!”
I’m sure some thought I was programming but there was at least two dumb fucks that thought I was hacking. Like what am I going to hack from an arcade shooting game‽
