cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34182616
I once got detention for “hacking.” All the school computers were on the same network, so if you opened Computer Management, then selected a different computer on the network, you could… get this… eject the disc drive on unsuspecting people. They’d be on their computer, 15 feet away, and then I’d click a button and their disc drive would eject, momentarily confusing them.
Librarian saw me using the “My Computer” folder to get to Computer Management, apparently that was proof enough. How is using available folders on the computer “hacking”? I have no idea, didn’t seem to be relevant.
I was banned from using computers at my highschool for hacking. I installed Firefox. Turns out the parental control program the school used only worked on Internet Explorer, so you could visit any site you wanted with Firefox. Hackerman!
My parents installed “Net Nanny” to keep me from watching porn or spending too much time on the internet as a middle-schooler. (Trust me, they’re good and accepting parents.) Anyway, I figured out that all you had to do was not click “okay” on the startup-induced message window and Net Nanny never started the controls or timer.
Unfortunately, school networks are often set up by people better qualified for teaching other subjects and as such they often leave things open for enterprising, morally undeveloped, children to get their metaphorical tendrils into.
This is how I ultimately ended up being banned from all computers in my school except one. It took them a while to figure out how to do that but I guess it became a priority what with all the “scary” things I was doing.
As I understand it, I was still getting the blame for things after I left.
way back in the early oughts i was in a tech enjanced learning program - on paper it was a solid idea. Small class size with hands-on support from our schools more tech literate teachers.
in practice we pretty much just tried to play quake 3 with each other withojt getting caught.
our teacher was on a years long crusade to find the server hosting the quake 3 installer, as we had software that locked the hard drives so any changes would be undone when rebooted. to my knowledge he never did, and the entire drama around it was hollarious.
I once was reported by the high school programming class for “plagiarism” because I used visual studio’s auto-generated template to start my homework.
The teacher reported it to my parents, he wanted to make me fail. I was also reported for creating a “hidden” chat app that I shared with my friends. (It didn’t show in the taskbar.)
Next Christmas, they bought me a visual studio license at home!
What linuix hacker uses “.exe”? Should compile from source. That will get the girls in class attention.
anon uses wine
bigfuckinmistake.rpm
Yeah, a lot of people don’t know shit about computers. When I was working as a commissioning engineer, we would ping devices after using bootp to make sure the setup was successful. I got so many comments from electricians, millwrights and plant personnel just for using command prompt. “Oh wow you’re hacking!” Or “You have logged in to the matrix!” I’m sure sometimes they were just joking but most of them truly believed I was doing some high level stuff.
Yea, that happened.
I mean this is literally what I do in front of non-tech people to make them think I live in the Matrix. It’s honestly kind of hilarious how well it works. Their eyes go wide and they think I’m Mr. Chip Hackerman.
It’s literally how scammers scam people every day too. Just open up command prompt and run
tree c: /fAnd say it’s them visualizing the hacker, or scanning for viruses or something stupid.
Most people today do not understand computers at all. Even those freshly graduating with CS degrees often have little to no knowledge of how their OS’s work.
My wife was thinking I was hacking while I was troubleshooting my VPS. She is way more educated than I am. She loves watching CSI, so that’s probably why she thought that.
I live in the US. People are absolutely that fucking stupid.
Maybe if this happened in the 1990s, but I seriously doubt it in the last 25 years. That post said other students were using chromebooks so we know it wasn’t in the 1990s. Middle and High school kids are flashing ROMs on their phone by themselves these days. Even those that don’t understand command line know its used more than just “for hacking”.
Also on the high school “trouble” list, I have a hard time imagining the overstretched school system cares about anything other than students committing violence against teachers or each other, teen sex, drug use/sale on campus, possibly nicotine use, or possible consequences of poverty on students (hunger, clothing, hygiene). You know, normal teen stuff.
Middle and High school kids are flashing ROMs on their phone by themselves these days
No.
Some do. They other 98% are absolutely clueless and wouldn’t even know that there are alternatives to the stock OS. In fact they wouldn’t even know what an OS is or that “Android” isn’t a device brand.
cares about anything other than students committing violence
Many are just like bad police. They care about showing off how well they work by catching someone. Doesn’t matter that there wasn’t a problem in the first place or that there are actual real problems that could use the ressources. As long as they can catch and punish someone (for purely imaginary stuff even…) to pretend how well they are doing their job they are happy.
Yeah this is spot on. Tech literacy is at an all time low, today’s kids and young adults are having to be taught during work orientation what a file browser is now.
People who are currently between the ages of 30 and 60 are the generation that learned how to use their technology effectively. Older than that and you’re likely to be the “clueless boomer” trope, younger than that and you’re likely to be a tablet baby.
Not to mention that in my experience at least, public school teachers cared about basically every single petty problem except for the ones that would have actually benefitted anyone. You’ve been punched straight in the face every single day for two years by the same bully? I sleep. One of the girls wore shorts this morning and has visible knees? Get sent straight home immediately. Do not pass Go. This is a sin that cannot be tolerated.
All that to say, this story is definitely made up but there are places in America today where it could happen 100% as written.
All time low, so far. We haven’t seen the full might of the generation that was raised by Tiktok and educated by chatbots.
Have you seen Wall-E?
I think this story is fake as fuck, but with regards to school resource officers and the school I went to, if it was a non white kid it definitely would’ve received more scrutiny. It’s hard to say, because you couldn’t have laptops period when I was in highschool.
Regardless, as evidence for your point, remember when they arrested a 14 year old kid for having a DIY clock they thought was a bomb? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
I was sent to the principal for doing my HTML homework for a web design class in the library because the librarian accused me of hacking.
I was told by the superintendent of the school district’s IT department to never do that again.
Obama was fresh out of his tan suit debacle.
I got in trouble for playing Pokémon cards in the library because “playing cards is gambling” according to the librarian.
The next week we played with actual 52 deck cards and put money on the table just to spite her (we still weren’t gambling)
I was on my Gentoo linux laptop trying to find an open WiFi network on a sidewalk when someone came out of the nearby bank to shoo me away because she was told I was “trying to hack the bank”.
I was just trying SSH into my school account to send an email using PINE to let my parents know my train was 5 hours delayed. This would have been 2005 or so.
Uhh, kids today dont know the ctrl+f command in a pdf viewer. They grew up with ipads.
Its rare I see one that knows anything about how computers function. Most dont know what a folder is.
*the above are all real things I had interns ask in the last few months.
Not even in the 90s since many people would have known what a command prompt was since we used it to launch programs. The only way someone is acting like op’s greentext is if they had never used a computer but had watched a bunch of “hacker” movies. And for an entire school and police department to believe it and no one says “that’s how I launch my Doom”? Not happening.
The cops were the only ones in this story who didn’t believe it was hacking. They actually hired someone to check what was hacked.
I have a friend that has been trying for the past 2 years to get me to stop using Linux because its a “security risk”. My wife is also scared of piracy and adblockers. This is what most people are like.
You are in a tech-literate bubble.
I dunno, when I come across someone who has done the following to a PDF:
- Resized all the PDF pages into one size
- Bookmarked the PDF
- Bates numbering
- OCRed
- All the documents in one PDF
I give them a silent congrulations.
Far too often it’s “I printed all the documents and then scanned them as one PDF. Also what the fuck is bookmarking or OCRing or bates numbering?”
I got in “trouble” for visiting hackthissite as a freshman in high school and junior year I got an NSA pamphlet specifically sent to my guidance counselor for me.
i didn’t get as far as sql injections. Maybe they thought I was good at covering my tracks.
