How Did You Mess With The School's Computers? | AskReddit

how did you screw with computers at school my high school had a program on all the computers that would allow the teachers to watch an entire classroom screams take control of them send content to them et Cie a friend of mine came up an idea to try to use it to prank the classroom being the r /i embarrassment 16 year olds we were so when my teacher wasn't looking I put a USB stick into her computer and copied her spit program eggs directory onto it to take a look at what was different between the teacher and student versions turns out all you needed to make the student version a teacher version was a 25 character license key that was in a plain text file so obviously I copied it and upgraded my clan to a controller using all of my teacher settings we then proceeded to rickroll the classroom on full volume from 34 computers it was pretty great at the end of the class we came up with a great idea what would happen if we took control of our teachers computer and messed with her so we connected to her computer but she had been watching our screen from her screen so for about five seconds we see a bottomless pit of our screen and her screen mirrors over and over and over after about five seconds our PC fans got super loud and then shut off when we tried to turn it back on it was a black screen with only a flashing and discord the top left corner that PC had to be we imaged by district tech support still not sure what caused that not me but I remember at my old school someone managed to disable the H key on lots of the computers if you were typing and tried to press H you would get an error message saying like sorry but the H key on this computer is currently disabled please try again later somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into the window of a computer lab at my school it was over a weekend thankfully so nobody was there but it destroyed all of the computers in the room my friend and I got blamed for it because a teacher whose lab it was thought we didn't like her which we didn't thankfully our alibi was that we were on a plane flying back from a school exchange trip to Belgium when the occurred there were several teachers on the flight to corroborate our story that and you know plane tickets unplugged Mouse from back of computers one and two switch the plugs but leave the mice where they were Mouse in front of computer one is now plugged into computer two and vice versa watch the hilarity and see you in 201 I think friends and I installed Starcraft deep in my high school's file network accessible on every computer in the building and we had it programmed to run without a disk you would still need a CD key to play but hacked slash full CD keys were easy back in the day we passed out full CD keys to those menu to ask us and since it was all on the shared network you could land from basically anywhere in the building this was right around the time when computers were becoming really prevalent in schools not just with computer labs but many classes now had multiple computers or were specifically just on computers so we'd end up organizing these pretty large Starcraft battles across the school even got to the point where in draft in class where the teacher absolutely didn't care what we were doing my two friends and I huge nerds if that wasn't obvious would play some of the jocks in the class who loved Starcraft we didn't just break into the system to have fun we also broke down barriers to make life better a school network ran on Windows for workgroups 3-0 machines were locked down so you couldn't run your own programs on them however we discovered if you put a modified win any file that allowed you to install your own programs in a network drive that came before where the lockdown version was stored it would use that and you could install stuff and that's was my first introduction to do multiplayer sound boards holy shit we were little demons in middle school with those things my personal favorites were either run old Schwarzenegger or pulp fiction when the teacher would ask if there any questions from the back of the class you will hear in a thunderous voice who is your daddy and what does he do followed by an eruption of laughter also following up anytime the teacher said that's correct with correctamundo if you're eating this miliseconds Janish I'm so sorry we pretty much ran the network it was up or down at our whim the entire network used hubs and this was white as routers were becoming a thing so they were not yet economical we would shut down the entire network with a repeating Pinkham and endorse set to maximum packet size it was far too simple we wouldn't usually do it for long just enough for everyone to think it was a hiccup and to see if we could our computer class was actually really awesome the assigned modules were easy and once we were finished our teacher would let us do our own thing turns out a school had an entire computer graveyard we would go in there find parts and build entire computers eventually we had a separate network of eight or ten machines that we used exclusively for quake 2 and the original halo one day the school came in and removed our separate gaming computers we were cursed the network was down for quite a while my school had one of those annoying monitoring programs so the librarian could quickly see what you were doing in take control and usually the ass would just turn the computer off someone found out then when she started watching a small square appeared in the top-left corner of the screen if you right-click this square you could reverse the control and take her computer over someone took over and rather quickly hit delete on the windows folder it didn't work but it helped stop the overbearing watchful eye of the shitty librarian so computer class for most of grade school was nothing more than endless typing classes she sells seashells by the seashore and other tongue-twisters to get us practicing home rows and typing quickly absolutely mind-numbingly dull sure getting to play commander keen or Wolfenstein after was nice but the reward was nowhere near worth the effort to reach it and the teacher would constantly get frustrated with me touching home row and finishing faster and accurately without them so one day with us both being frustrated with each other IRA started the computer and opened the BIOS setup utility and started changing random settings to random values child me was vindictive this probably shows my age but we'd open basic and write a little program that went something like this 10 will print USAC 20 go to 10 then we'd edit the shortcut to a popular program say millisecond word to link to this program instead when an unsuspecting user clicked to open what they thought was the legit program instead they'd be treated to the dot matrix printer screeching out you suck you suck you suck forever only way to stop it was to find and terminate the program powering down the printer and turning it back on again wouldn't do it my school district used Mac's pretty much everywhere a couple of the most common pranks there was a key combination that would invert all the colors on the screen I liked it was all the meter keys and eight it was a lot of fun to do this to someone who left their computer unattended and didn't know that one of the function keys I think f11 would move all the windows to the outside edge of the screen showing the desktop pushing it again moved them back but there was an animation associated with both of the movements if you held shift while tapping f11 it would do the same thing but with the animation slowed down the thing is it didn't matter if the animation had completed or not the machine would queue up another action for each time you hit f11 but wouldn't cancel the animation in progress so if you were quick enough and someone wasn't paying attention talking to their neighbor looking a book et Cie you could lean over spam Shift + f11 a few dozen times and effectively forced them to watch all their windows slide in and out at a snail's pace for a minute or two shift + PRI NTSC re and to capture desktop open paint ctrl + V rotate image upside down and save set images desktop background auto-hide taskbar on desktop right-click view uncheck show desktop icons laugh at random victims attempting to use computer I never did anything to damaged computers just circumvent security measures using standalone browsers or games from a flash drive using said browsers and/or proxies to get around web filters installing program / games in the sea route directory since most group policy or other security measures wouldn't stop something from executing from there etc finally I can contribute I was in college in a classroom waiting my turn to an exam which was held in another room bored out of my mind behind me was a PC I saw a red button that said 220 I say out loud what does this button do and turn the button the button now says 150 and a loud bang and smoke comes from inside the PC unit I turned the power supply unit from 220 feet of 150 V which toasted it the room was full with my colleagues everybody looks at me in disbelief I begin to laugh out loud not believing what just happened luckily nobody told on me to the professor which was a difficult guy I managed to install Linux on almost 90% of all computers at the school all at once there were several flaws in the network that is discovered over the years that let me essentially ruin to the department at least over 110 of their machines firstly since these were mostly Mac's I was able to abuse their bui configured guest account system to gain screen sharing access to any Mac that was currently logged in regardless of the account that was currently in use second via Department set up some sort of program that would read a script file then update the Mac's according to the file via single user mode I think I modified one of the update scripts to point to a Linux image instead of an OS X update I can't remember what I did but I think there were specially modified images that will install a default system state silently requiring no user input other than the parameters for the disk partition we're being run in the command line that somehow worked so essentially the next scheduled update completely fucked the school by installing a NOS that nobody knew how to use it was glorious and apparently it was cheaper to toss the Macs and buy new ones than to pay via department to actually reinstall OS X by hand whatever I got a ton of free max that day unexpectedly good outcome when I was in the 12th grade all the computers ran Windows XP fellow classmates were crazy for Minecraft one day in computer lab during lunch I saw an open computer I walked over and opened occiput and entered the code for deleting system 32 I then changed the icon to minecraft named it minecraft eggs and put it on the shared Drive the next day about 22 computers became bricks no one ever found out it was me sorry in advance for mediocre English it's my third language I think it was in 2004 my a teacher let me use an old laptop for a project inside it was a floppy disk with the username and password for all users on the learning platform we used including teachers the rest of the semester I logged into the teachers accounts found the hand ins from the best students downloaded made it my own and handed it in from my own account never got busted but I realized I used almost the same time altering assignments as I would have if I just made my own also had some fun with the let merle trojan from time to time not me but some guy has been updating a games folder on the school's public / h / dr none of the teachers or tech supports guys can get rid of it or set it up so we can't use it no one knows where it came from except it's been there since forever it has counter-strike 1/6 day of defeat halo said a halo odd stimulator it actually works I too have questions roller coaster tycoon team fortress classic do cata minecraft old-school rune escape s more aligned and a few others my friend and I entered into the operating system itself a virus that would essentially hunt through ml accounts with edu address so all teachers and administration and display a picture of two women having sex if the operator clicked equals ten times of video started if the operator clicked 20 times the noise started the only way to get rid of it was pretty simple Center alt Det and use task but has shut it down not that complex obviously although to be honest I didn't do a lot of programming I did some of the basics however I must lead the strategic planning of how we were actually going to get it done and implement it my friend's dad was a programmer and hobbyist hacker so he actually helped my friend design it I still find it hilarious that his dad was willing to fuck with the teachers he must really hate it our school law however most teachers didn't know that they didn't know who did it but it was hilarious

Channel: ToadFilms

Views: 428,546

Rating: 4.8589497 out of 5

Keywords: mess with the school's computers, school's computers, school's computer, computer, computers, reddit, askreddit, askreddit funny, top posts, top posts of r/, r/, r/askreddit, reddit top posts, reddit cringe, comedy, reddit compilation, top posts of all time, askreddit question, askreddit top posts, ask reddit, askreddit reading, subreddit, reddit stories, best of r/askreddit, funny reddit, best reddit posts, best of reddit, ToadFilms, for kids, fun, kids

Id: ArbmKx232lM

Length: 13min 55sec (835 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 04 2019