Ever messed with the School Computers?

[Fergie]

I was interested how many people here have.

Someone did a net send to the whole school once and thought they were the ultimate hacker.

But the network at my school is very insecure, and most network drives are accessable through Word and Notepad.

At one point you could get into Program Files with all the register and grade software just by going up a few levels from Sample Music.

Anybody here done anything serious?

[Admiral Michael]

Before my High school upgraded to Win98 (this is a few years back) we could hit CTRL+ALT+DEL at the login screen and run local things.

Then I got into college. My school had computers with card readers for printing, you print on the computer you were on and then go to this desktop and select which computer you were on and that was how you paid for printouts. Using a little Windows know how and our laptops we got the IP for the printers and bypassed the print workstation, which means free printing.

It was their own fault for A) having the ports on each computer setup for the printer alone and B) using network printers.

[jordanspringer]

Back on a class that I had full of Win98 computers, I was browsing some weird school network drive, and came across the install file for Quake3D. We got it installed on like 10 computers in the back row of our class, and during class just played big network games of Quake, and whenever a teacher came by, it was just a quick ALT + TAB back to our work.

[temur]

Uhh... Yeah, I just opened up the cmd prompt via. Notepad. And just send some messages using the netsend command.... Got in real big trouble for that, the teachers were making up such big bs like, OMGGG you've destroyed the servers etc... Was laughing my ass off then!

[Stephen Veteran]

unforunatly yes.:

when i was in year 7 (1st year) i accessed novells network administration software (basically i could view all accounts and settings) [got banned for 2 weeks]

when i was in year 10 (4th year) IT found out i was using a staff login and thus was [banned for 2 weeks again]

when i was in year 10 (4th year) i STOLE a PSU, RAM, and a cd drive, found out in year 11 [parents involved and until i left (6months) was only allowed on pcs during lessons that reqd it]

and am deeply regretting it

as when i was in year 9 i started doing the theatre at school back when it was a rogue area (not governd by any set dept.) so who do the idiots put in charge? fecking IT, they barely trust me even now! but they are getting better

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[ninjamunky]

This one kid I knew stole the Adobe PS 7 key from the registry once in our graphics class LOL. Another time we were playing Gundam Wing - Endless Duel across the network via emulators :) Yet another time we were sending messages and pictures to each other via bluetooth on the cool new Macs when and administrator sent several of us messages saying 'Please stop that' :p

[Gavin001]

We used to get a teachers login for the internet cause they had less restrictions plus you could go up loads of stuff and it would appear under that teachers name lol! We also found out a way that would let you see everyones usernames and let you in to there documents, was great for stealing coursework :) the thing is the teachers and admin's knew about it they just tried to scare us to try stop people from doing it, are admins where pretty stupid lol, but where great at filling up the ink on the printer :D

[MarkusDarkus]

Ha that's nothing. In our 6th form computer room I messed with all the computers in the room, set one up as a server for the Internet and installed every game and piece of software we wern't allowed to. We got away with it though because i set it up so to boot locally you needed a floppy. I was a legend in school. (Especially when I got my hands on the master key! ;) )

P.S. I'm sure I played more unreal than was healthy.

[gendi]

ive done the netsend thing i also cracked the administrator password for novell and went through everyones accounts, i found some very interesting things.

they blocked msn messenger from running, took me a whole 1 minute to fix it, just had to rename msnmsgr.exe to msnmsg.exe and all worked fine, then they blocked hotmail and a few other sites, took a few minutes to fix that one, just had to change the automatic configuration script to a different schools one worked fine.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

this is a fun subject :p

year 9: found 16 holes in the system and admins gave me tasks to "test" the servers :p

year 10: figured out how to get full admin write, read rights. (+ other stuff im not aloud to tell)

year 11: got 16 people full network bans for "attempted hacking" and changed everyone in year 9 passwords too PaSsWoRd (almost got kicked out)

[pdmcmahon]

(begin sarcastic posting)

Well, let's see, when I was in school, we had TRASH-80's and Apple II's. Kind of hard to hack Oregon Trail

(end sarcastic posting)

[999]

put games on the shared drive

soon everyone was playing games, so the school admin locked if off.

[trashpickinman]

Probably about 10 years ago now. But I once had DOS CD-ROM driver disk, which had a program to restart the computer after installing the drivers. The computers at school were still using Windows 3.1 (yeah I'm old :p). One day I copied the autoexec.bat file off class computer on to a floppy, took it home and added a reference to the restart program from the driver disk. I then made another batch program to overwrite the original autoexec.bat file with my modified file and copy the restart program to the school computer, all I had to do was insert the disk, run the one .bat file, and leave. I figured the less time I was typing commands, the more innocent I would look. I took it back the next day, ran it, walked by the classroom a few hours later and found the school tech working at the computer, because all it would do was start then automatically restart. :laugh:

Never got caught.

[PL_ Veteran]

Erm, used a proxy to bypass the filter, but everyone does that.

Installed a Shareware version of DOOM once

Managed to locate the network's shared CD drives

I don't really bother doing much, I don't see the point.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

When i was in school, yes :p even got suspended from it :ninja:

[PL_ Veteran]

when i was in year 10 (4th year) i STOLE a PSU, RAM, and a cd drive, found out in year 11 [parents involved and until i left (6months) was only allowed on pcs during lessons that reqd it]

Holy **** :o

[riahc3]

Got the admin's password; I have total LOCAL access to the current computer Im on.

netsend thing - been there done that

installed games

They use a software called "NetOp" that allows the teacher's PC to control/block our PC or show us code that on his screen on all our screens. What I did so he couldnt see nothing I was doing: Rebooted, F8, Safe Mode, login as admin, went into Program Files, Shift+Delete on the folder containing the software, restart, login with my normal username, and tada! They cant see, trace, block, or anything to my PC anymore.

Im currently looking how to get the admin's NETWORK password. I actually don't want it for harm just want to reconfigure some stuff (Example: They have Paint blocked and I want to unblock it. Sometimes we have to make diagrams and its hard using Word's drawing feature)

[_neutrino Veteran]

i used to get into stuff and mess around we found a way around all of the net filtering and stuff. the worst thing we ever did was install Enemy territory on the computers at school

[Rowain]

I don't, because:

1) I don't have the time

2) There is no point

3) If I get caught, I'll get suspended/expelled, and I REALLY don't want that to happen

4) The network has already been proven to be secure by IT pros.

[Nexx295]

My teacher told me once everything is 100% secure and nobody will ever be able to hack anything. I asked her if I could test the security. In about 2 hours all computers had full access to everything.

I hate when teachers claim everything is 100% secure and act like they would know everything.

[noroom]

When I was learning programming, I made a small trojan-like program. It was just a hidden program that allowed you to mess with the user's computer. Basic funny stuff, like playing with the CD tray, making a ball bounce around the screen, locking the mouse to an axis, changing the wallpaper, making messageboxes with custom messages, etc. Just fun things. I named it pamelapics.jpg.exe and put it in the shared folder of the network. Next week all computers were "infected", including the teacher's. It was fun running the client program and making his computer do funny things in front of everyone.

[micro]

yea, back in high school the computers used to have a program called synchroneyes, this allowed the teacher to watch every screen and take control if needed. So I wrote a small vb 6.0 app that disabled them from monitoring me, never got caught, never did anything wrong, just didnt want people watching me..

Also i was able to get the passwords of 20+ teachers via the sam file on windows ...

[StevenNT]

I have not really messed about. Was more of a kind of person to try and keep the computers functioning since there was a lack of IT Staff in High School and also were not very bright.

[dragon2611]

First year of college I was able to look on the network drive of everyone in the class, not only that it was possible to read/write to their area.. Stupid admins had applied group permissons rather than user level.

Was quite funny becuase my mate hid some files on his area and then forgot he'd done it and thoughd we'd deleted it.

Played the quake2 demo across the network (they werent to happy with that) What they said they we couldnt install software didn't say nout about running the software from cd :p

errm i knew some of the service accounts for the RM system although all the highup ones had the passwords changed.

My mate blew up a pc becuase someone set it to 110v he didn't notice and plugged it in, it did make him jump somewhat when he shoved the power lead into the back of the computer and it went boom.

Went to get a drink of water (was a win98 pc so couldnt lock it) my mate typed "I am gay" into the assignment i had up on word, i didn't think to check it since id already proof read it on the screen before going away from the pc. printed it and handed it in, fortunatly the lecturer at the time had a sence of humor.

[mcloum]

Yup you people are a pain in my arse!! lol But in fairness you do help us make the school systems more secure. Like the other day i found out kids can install windows Live Messenger without any restrictions on a locked down user account????? Still working on that one.