How I got suspended for creating folders at school

I wonder how much trouble I would have gotten for the batch script that wiped a C:\ drive at my uncle's lol

echo off
cls
:begin
start
goto begin

Save that as fuckyou.bat and put it in the startup folder.

My friends and I made VB scripts that would do nothing but create dialog boxes that said stuff like "hi" back in grade 7... somehow this caused the principal to throw a fit about us 'creating computer viruses', and this ended with about a dozen people losing our computer privileges for about 2 weeks.
I even remember talking with the IT guys about what happened, and they were pretty cool and understanding... but they couldn't reverse the ban without defying their tech-illiterate higher-ups. Things were tough back then. But hey, at least they didn't seem to mind letting us play on N64 emulators using the school projectors

I was friends with a kid that figured out our school's administrators were idiots.

They had the admin password set to "idontknow" for everything, both their main admin accounts and their backup admin accounts.

Total User Network Access? idontknow
Grading system administrator access? idontknow
Attendance records administrator access? idontknow
Remote Desktop Control web server access? idontknow

With that one password you could access literally anything on not only the network for my school, but also schools throughout the whole district as well. What idiots. It has since then, been changed (hopefully, if not they deserve a student to go in there and delete everything because fuck, make your passwords not stupid)

Anyhow, the reason it got changed (I think) is because my friend got caught digging through other students network drives and dumping files on the school server in a hidden directory nobody would think to look at. He even added a link on the main page's school website temporarily that opened his network directory. He put it on the date stamp of every page. Pretty sure it was like that for a good 3 months before the school went after him.

My friend got banned from using the school computers and suspended for a week, and I got suspended for 3 days because he told them I knew it too. I was suspended for, and I quote "Guilty by association." Lmao, whatever 3 days off, I hated school back then anyway.

Moral of the story: Pick better passwords for secure systems then "idontknow".

Oh no! White Courier text on a black background! This can only mean one thing: he's HACKING!

I find it a problem when the school knows you hack into their stuff and they don't get up your ass (me), but when someone is just screwing around with folders, they get expelled for "trying to hack the government."
I also was talking to the head of the tech department at my school suggesting them to lock the bios or else kids can nuke everything and he had zero clue as to what a bios was.

One time in Comp Sci I put a batch that opened the disk drive every 10 seconds in someones startup folder. The teacher thought it was hilarious. Sucks that you have a dud

@vayanui8 Strange I literally have a computer at my school constantly opening the disc drive.

@seijinshu Mine is unlocked

Yeah. It is pretty fun. I kinda get permission to hack the school computers since I am on the cyber defense team (note: I am a high schooler)

Adults are so dumb sometimes smh

Minnow is the hero we need, but not the one we deserve!

lmao

Damn, you guys reply fast.

I got in trouble so many times cuz of computers...

There was one time when I changed the password of all Linux computers at the school's library because I needed to update some packages that were very outdated (I don't remember exactly what, but what I needed to do needed a more recent version of some package). I got banned from using the school's computers.

Also, I used to carry a FreeDOS live USB stick with me, and use it as my daily driver for school work and for writing text. Apparently, people didn't like it, and thought I was hacking it. lmao. Got banned again.

So what was your plan with those folders?

I remember I used to stand out in an elementary class for my fast-typing, and once some kid asked what I was doing, and then the teacher got curious too and she was starting at me for the whole period... I was literally bored and finished my work so I was just retyping my assignment sheet paper.

Computers in my school are very securised , the only possible thing is to run PowerShell ( never tried xd) and access C drive in read-only by typing file://C:/

Back when I was in high school (oh, god, I'm so old I'm telling "back in my day" stories!), we used to get around the school's internet filters by installing Firefox onto personal flash drives and connecting through a proxy server. We were locked out of the command prompt through permissions, but running batch files worked fine, so we had fun messing around with stuff that way (such as changing the cursor to be a dinosaur). Let's see, what else... Got around the permissions lockdown by unplugging the ethernet cable during the log-in process so the network couldn't tell the computer what permissions we didn't have (good going, Microsoft, give all permissions unless told otherwise by an outside source, top-notch security features you have). Also on some laptops, we went into the BIOS and turned off the administrative passwords from there (simple checkbox for that and don't need to know the password to turn it off). I can't remember if any of us left a BIOS password that locked you out of the entire machine if you didn't have it.

I spent most of highschool banned from all computer use. most of the reasons why were:
1. removing viruses/malware/spyware from the computer
2. helping friends get on the computer when banned
3. bypassing the Internet filters

However, this did not do much to me as I still had access via other students who pass down login info the seniors who graduated the year before as the logins were left working.
on top of this, most of the time, teachers did not know I was not supposed to have access so I did my computer assignments normally as they all had to be printed out before being turned in.
for the ones who did know, I would use the computer anyway when there is a substitute teacher. One day, I even used the computer while the I.T. guy was on the other side of the computer lab, while I was still banned from using them, he never found out.