Kalezian said:
Bvenged said:
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tl;dr, >ITT Kids these days dont know about causing mayhem.
I read it all, and that's hilarious!
You're right about "kids these days". I'm only 19 but people walking around a year younger than me, think it was "rebel" to knock over a pedestrian island cone, then leg it after doing so. What a baaad-ass's they are!
See those cuboid cones in the middle of the road, marking out the pedestrian island to traffic? Yeah, the ones made of cheap plastic in case a car hits them; thin enough to allow some of the light inside them out, held in place by against the half-foot-tall-but-similarly-wide base?
Yeah, apparently it's bad-ass to pull it off and push it over, something that takes about as much effort to push a trolley (shopping cart) down an empty supermarket isle (which in my opinion is ever so slightly more bad-ass but much more fun, especially if you jump in).
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After going to college from approximately 2 months, my course subject dictated that we learn some command Prompt commands first hand. When my lecturer tried to open it, she was greeted with an admin lockout, the same went for the small number of people in my class. The administrators had locked all users out when designing the security of the network for obvious reasons. Now this college had ftaken on the course "computer security and forensics", which I was paying for, but couldn't deliver the resources needed for the class?
I hacked access to Command Prompt and then proceeded with what I should have done that lesson (some basic diagnostic lines such as IP config etc.). What I didn't realise was that I had access over then ENTIRE Coleg Gwent network.
When I did realise this, I started testing the waters by accessing usually closed-off directories. When this proved successful I investigated some more, never delving deeper than the root directories. I got to the point where at the press of a button I could have wiped everything on the Wide Area Network covering 3 Coleg Gwent colleges, 10 miles apart, educating 1500 students employing 500ish staff (or something, it's 3 colleges); showed my tutor the access I had then cleared the code. she was surprisingly impressed.
A few minutes later an IT dude was in the room checking the connection of one of the computers so I loaded up ye' olde Prompt, and accessed one of the directories again. I called him over and showed him what I had control over, to which he GENUINELY asked "But what can you do?"... "uhh, Everything?" was my dumbfounded response considering I had just shown him I had access to one of the out-of-bounds drives.
He grunted a few times, took about 3 words of notes then said "Don't do it again, I'll get [some other guy] to sort it out."
That was that. I will never hack for any malicious intentions as far as I'm concerned, but you have to be careful when you do, The last thing I'd want is to be sued doing something good because I didn't have permission to gain access.
OT: Those thick-skulled teenagers acting hard but not doing much are realistically inferior in the ever-evolving information age that we live in - and half of them aren't even as "rebel" as they think they are. I've told many-a-troubled teen to fuck off, right in the street.
More on topic - that was a nice story about something that happened at the local college I go to every week, as apart of my uni course, which only happened in back in November and was me! It's a good story though as nothing bad came of it, because I'm a good guy and not a malevolent bastard, but if I was an evil sonofabitch I could have seriously ruined hundreds of people's 2011/12 education year... and lives.
