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How did you mess with school computers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by free_owl716@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] golamas1999@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a school Mac I figured out using some command I could create a new admin account. I used this account to gain access to the school WiFi password and admin account password. I found out what a vpn was and brought my own laptop to us instead of the crappy ASUS Eee PC netbooks. The Vice Principal was not happy. They called my parents for a meeting ( I had a lot of issues with many IEP meetings). My parents were okay with it.

We would also pass around pirated GTA 3, GTA Vice City, Free versions of Minecraft, and Halo CE and run them off of USBs.

[–] lom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Write a script to create an neverending amount of files. Piratinh games. Trick teachers into giving us their passwords. I could go on...

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We never had school computers :(

[–] tsp@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

We installed Doom (1 or 2, I don’t remember) in an invisible folder and played via the 10Base-2 network. Those were the 90ies…

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

installing linux as dual boot, well it fixed the windows 7 that couldn't update lol

[–] cyberpiggy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You did them a favour really...

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We installed Doom on a couple computers, this was in '97. Our computer teacher had absolutely no idea how we did it. Private schools were fun for running circles around the teachers.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I had GLTron and Pocket Tanks installed on a flash drive, so my friends and I would just play games whenever we had free time.
I also found a couple fun network based utilities in Windows, and all the computers in the district were on the same network. I was messing with NetSpend one day and managed to accidentally send a message to every computer in the school, which then all promptly crashed for some reason.
I also had fun messing with the netchat application. My mom worked at another school in the district, and one time I arranged for her to open netchat at a specific time while I was in computer lab, so I could connect to her computer from a lab computer and we could chat back and forth.

[–] Datman2020@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All of the other people here have such cool stories to share, while I am here, who just changed the default browser of a few computers...

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[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Set up fork bombs to trigger at random intervals.

[–] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Install NixOS on them 😈

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Installed ventoy to a 32gb flash drive, turned off secure boot and then load into any distro on the drive

Also had a persistent windows installation on another drive

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