website shenanigans
Eagle-eyed readers will know that I posted a shorter version of this on /board last week, if I'd have known what this weeks QOTW was, I'd have sat on it...c'est la vie.

When I was a young lad, I was quite the whizz with computers - and keen too, so keen in fact, that our Business Studies/IT teacher used to lock me in the computer room during her dinner break - and me being completely trustworthy, she used to leave 'Admin2' logged in while she went.
One day, I went behind her desk and gave myself administrator rights, and spent the dinner hour discretely distributing them to my mates, right under her nose - while she played Solitaire.
It was great fun, I managed to bring a chat program in, discovered Winpopup and everybody elses document folders!

We really took the biscuit when a friend of mine found a floppy disk in an unlocked drawer, and brought it round to my house after school - we had a look at it, and it was the newly launched school websites FTP details!
We downloaded everything from their page, and made a cloned version
What we didnt know is that the Headmasters bosses were all looking at the page around the time we put it on - cue him storming into my GCSE English exam with steaming at the ears with a bright red face and glaring at me, realising there was nothing he could do, and stormed out in a huff.

Apparantly, he didn't like the photo we used of him.
A couple of days later, I got a call from him, asking to design their official page for them.

Length: About 4 years, until I got 2 police on my doorstep telling me to take it down, or else the new headmistress will take me to court over it.
(Davethefan began lurking again on or around, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 16:59, 4 replies)

haha!
excellent

wintringham eh? The one in Grimsby?
( morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 17:18, closed)

Yep
That's the one. Are you familiar with it?
(Davethefan began lurking again on or around, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 17:20, closed)

winpopup
I got in some trouble due to winpopup, all of the new win2k PCs were set just to display whatever was sent to them. I never got Admin rights but I did become rather good at hacking.

I never got in trouble after the first time because they found that I was quite willing to share my knowledge to other students with more malicious intent. Apparently I even caused a couple of fights in the IT rooms.

Such fond memories of my early years in secondary school.
( AS, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 18:34, closed)

here here
I managed to introduce Sub7 to our college - with the whole IT bay being on a network, their IP addresses didn't change, so were were able to make a map of which machine we wanted to target, and look it up on the map.
I never got caught with it though, because I knew about Alt+Tab and wasn't obvious with it.
Even my Stepdad worked upstairs in Administration, and he never found out it was me that introduced it.

I got somebody at school with it too, and told them I'd get rid of it, and to come round tomorrow after school - so that night I made a program in Visual Basic that made it look like it'd been removed, and was a lot slyer after that.

Good times.
(Davethefan began lurking again on or around, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 19:00, closed)