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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Hollywood.
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:
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?”