School Network Hacking Stories

That’s quite similar to my story. While at high school, I wrote an innocent program to open the terminals at the nearby college for chat sessions - nothing nefarious. The sysadm saw what I did and realised I could use it to phish passwords. Next time I went to use the computer lab, the terminals were locked down.Showing my age but this would have been 1984 or so… a remarkably early contribution to security?

I'm lucky, I think, because over the 5 years of highschool I cracked every users password, found multiple vulnerabilities in the Novell NetWare system that allowed me to run arbitrary binaries, found out that I could use the `NET SEND` command to pop a message on every computer that was connected to the network, among other things.The IT Coordinator wanted me nailed to the wall, but the vice-principal found a lot of the things I did interesting, and instead made the IT coordinator give m

My freshman year of high school we had similar access. Mostly used it for auto-installing Doom on all the library computers at once every time the poor admin went through each computer and manually deleted it.One friend wrote a fake login program that would immediately quit and run the real login program so we could collect credentials.Another friend got in real trouble though, supposedly for either trying to or actually changing grades. I knew we could get in trouble. But I also never wou

I was put into isolation for three weeks during high school when I was found to be hacking my way through the network. In reality I had found access to the remote server through the winword.exe open dialog that didn't require passwords and was displaying in the list of network drives, but didn't in explorer.Because I found this, I was able to find the RM (Research Machines) Management Console and use a teachers (actually the deputy head) password "teacher" (no word

I did exactly the same with the loop and net send when I was 13-14 years old. The school was connected to the city's network somehow so the IT department was not very happy. They figured out it was me but were nice enough to just say "if you ever want to test something like that again, just check with us first" and I got an internship with them the following year. I'm very grateful for their gentle and pedagogical approach.

I was in junior high early 90s when I got into trouble with my school's networks. Setup was Novell Netware, DOS 6.x. I was never a Netware expert by any means, but by that time I'd been using DOS at home for quite a number of years and knew my way around pretty well. Anyways, the network crashed. I got accused of causing the crash because a teacher had seen me with "a black screen open", aka a DOS prompt. Our Netware setup didn't allow for direct DOS access; we had a lim

Yes!I did the telnet thing to mail servers while I was in high school to good effect ;). I would almost certainly cringe if I could see those mails today.Showing the school IT department what could be done with a semicolon in a URL on their servers would have gotten me suspended if it weren't for some understanding teachers. Thank god I only put a fork bomb (cringe of 2016 me is real) in there.

Did something similar in the late 90’s / early aughts.Figured out the default password scheme for teachers.Found several teacher accounts that didn’t change their default password.Teacher accounts could write to network drives when students couldn’t.Put games like it, quake 2 and c&c ra2 on the network.Lasted about six months.A student I had confided in ratted me out.I was no longer permitted to touch another school computer.I failed every class that required me

I once got suspended because I figured out how to bypass my schools lockdown policies on the computers in the lab and wouldnt tell them how i did it.(Hint: i learned they kept the "bypass" code in clear text in the registry, and later simply killed the processes from a command prompt with a batch file).I also had a small apache server and ftp box i would tunnel though or get executables from i wanted to play (like pinball, the monsters blocked pinball). Since it was the very earl

I was threatened with a ban on computers at high school from my middle school.. because I had copied game demos to other user's accounts. [They gave me their username and password]I also figured out how to access the middle school's library database without a login. [That wasn't secured, nor did it require a password]Also, nearly got in trouble with the IT administrators at my high school because I found out how to send Novell messages.I was a very bored kid.