• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • threeonefour@piefed.ca
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      1 year ago

      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!

      • Liz@midwest.social
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        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.