[Excalibur]

Anyone done some cool stuff to get around access restriction policies on school computers, etc.?

I remember how at one school we discovered that pulling out the network cable just after pressing enter to log on meant we had no restrictions, because it logged us on to a master server in the state's school network.

Was so fun until some people ruined  it by looking at porn  - and it was detected.

Then some idiot did it when there was an IT guy in the room, like, seriously! 


Anyway, any of you got any stories?


Oh, and we installed games and plagued the computers with them. Again, they were only "harmless" i.e: Jazz rabbit 2, etc.    until someone installed Doom and Wolfenstein - these made all the games "violent", and an executable restricter was put in place - only programs in the Program Files folder worked - logged in on a teachers account, create a folder and you can put anything in it!

Anyway, back to your stories.

[lenard27]

Well this one is really simple but my high school had a program that the teacher could turn on to prevent you from using the internet in class when we were supposed to be paying attention.  I found a very simple way around that:  Restart the computer and the program was disabled.  The teachers never figured out how we got around it. (Well one did and he thought it was cool that we were creative enough to figure out a way around it)

[Excalibur]

Must've been a cool teacher

[Wanderer]

My computer science teacher was interested mostly in collecting viruses.. Every time a student managed to get one of the computers infected he went through a lot to trouble just to get the virus from the computer.

And there wasnt much point in 'beating the system'. All we had to do was write (or code) something in basic/logo/html tp put something fancy thing to show on the screen - took less than 30 min of the 2 h lesson. Then play duke nukem in network for rest of the time (there werent that many option that time). Also teacher didnt view intellectual property thing - or copyrights - very well and basically our computer class rooms were 'wretched dens' of piracy... 

[Stealth]

I remember how at one school we discovered that pulling out the network cable just after pressing enter to log on meant we had no restrictions, because it logged us on to a master server in the state's school network.

logged you on to the "master server"? 

[WMCoolmon]

I accidentally made myself a superadmin for the entire school network at my Junior High, once.


Actually the situation there was pretty funny. A lot of the people there, including the first network administrator, were using "Hotline" - one of the early P2P clients. Under that first network admin, it was OK to play games, although you had to get off after some time if somebody was waiting or needed to do schoolwork. I remember that he used to check his world rankings in Unreal Tournament while supervising the open lab...

[Davros]

I did program all the pc's in college to play jingle bells upon boot during the last week of december

[jr2]

That sounds like what my Dad's co-worker did to my Dad's old Daewoo 286.    It even printed the lyrics as it beeped out the tune.

[Herra Tohtori]

Heh, when I was in school we sometimes went to computer class (on various lessons, including maths, chemistry, physics, Finnish language) to do something mundane in about ten minutes with the computers (task - search information about X and Y using the web), and after completing the assignment we simply started playing Half-Life deathmatches in LAN.

The school types did try and uninstall it multiple times, but it was always on packaged form in some PC's HD, hidden in the shadows, and then it got put on networked HD and it could be played from there... Was fun.

In the IT "course" I once selected, we literally did almost nothing but play deathmatches, the assignments were so ridiculously fast to do and the course was only graded on pass/fail basis, so we figured we might as well take the spare time to relax.

...needless to say, the IT personnel in my old school were *not* the most knowledgeable peeps in the world for the job.

[Grizzly]

My computer science teacher was interested mostly in collecting viruses.. Every time a student managed to get one of the computers infected he went through a lot to trouble just to get the virus from the computer.

And there wasnt much point in 'beating the system'. All we had to do was write (or code) something in basic/logo/html tp put something fancy thing to show on the screen - took less than 30 min of the 2 h lesson. Then play duke nukem in network for rest of the time (there werent that many option that time). Also teacher didnt view intellectual property thing - or copyrights - very well and basically our computer class rooms were 'wretched dens' of piracy... 

AH! now I know where the Pirate Bay was first hosted.

[Prophet]

The last school I was in for two years and I don't think I ever saw the original copies of any of the software we used.
"What? There's not enought for everyone? Hold on, I'll burn a couple more..."
And then later...
"Anyone seen any Office 2003 CD's? I thought we had them here..." Yep, all of them were all gone.

[DiabloRojo]

Back when I was in high-school, I tried to reprogram our abacuses to use base-8, but they used cheap Chinese construction to deter such things rather than using nice Japanese soroban so they broke...

Ok, real story... In high school, the PCs we used in class (friggin typing class) weren't on the 'net, but they were networked.  There was some program that only managed to keep exe's other than those specified from running.  It only worked in the Win95 shell, so DOS commands were fair game.  So after a couple months, I was quite annoyed with the typing class and wrote a couple of batch files.  One distributed new WordPerfect icons to all desktops with a new target.  The target was a mean batch file that did a deltree on the WP directory and moved a few choice DLL files to a different folder.  The teacher, of course, was clueless when the next class seemingly messed up all their PCs.

Then a couple friends and I got A's (not like we didn't anyway.. it's TYPING!) for 'fixing' them instead of doing normal assignments for the rest of the semester.

[colecampbell666]

Show me how to do that!

Anyway, my friend has changed the admin passwords on so many PCs that it isn't funny, sometimes he leaves the passwords in place.

 Teachers can install and run "Restricted" and "Unsafe" programs, and these programs will not be deleted by Deep Freeze nor blocked by AE Manager. Every time the teacher turned her back last year FS2 would mysteriously appear on her PC.

[Stealth]

ahh yes. deep freeze. oh i remember that program

[Excalibur]

I remember how at one school we discovered that pulling out the network cable just after pressing enter to log on meant we had no restrictions, because it logged us on to a master server in the state's school network.

logged you on to the "master server"? 

Well, all the computers in the school were connected to the school server, which had our profiles on it. Pulling out the network cable and replacing it when a message came up meant that it had logged onto a "local" profile, which was the profile on the server in our capital city. This meant no restrictions what so ever, but when people accessed porn, it must have come up in the list of unauthorised sites that had been bypassed or something, so the school was notified.

@colecampbell666:   that's sort of what I did, but not with FS2 - Jazz 2 and Elasto Mania. Copied into the public folder, as many C drives as possible, on personal profiles, etc. We had CD's as well. The comp. graphics teacher proposed a new topic called virual reality - we got to play flight simulator - I thought, well, FS2 is a simulator, so I brought it in to install, but I had to log in to a teacher's profile since we couldn't do the trick anymore, and I couldn't be bothered. Jazz was fun enough anyway, especially since I usually always "roasted" people, and they got mad.

EXCALIBUR roasted whatever their name was. All the time.

When I get enough money, I should get one of those pocket 20GB HD's, and put FS2 on it! To be honest though, I had only just found the SCP, and wasn't too knowledgable on MP squadwar, etc.

Oh, and if you ever heard of Racker, Rackenbacker or Universal Destroyer, that was me. Though I never posted.

[Stealth]

lol two things

first off, what you mean to say, is that when you pulled the network cable, the computer wasn't able to contact the domain controller to pull your roaming profile, so it logged you on with a local profile.  likewise, the group policies weren't able to be applied, so you had default permissions


second, there are better games to load on a pocket HD than FS2, and even if you decided on FS2, it definately wouldn't take 20 GB

[Excalibur]

No point getting a 4 GB one. Especially when all of FS2 SCP takes up around that, I would want extra space.

Of course, I would put other things on it.

[jr2]

Meh... get yourself a pocket 200 GB HD... easy enough to make.  Just get a 2.5" IDE drive, and a 2.5" external USB - IDE HD enclosure.  Ta-da!  It even runs off of USB power (in most cases).

[Roanoke]

back in the day we found Doom had mysteriosuly appeared on the PCs in the class room of the Car Garage Workshop where I was studying. Or not, as I was more likely killing Cyber Demons.

[Grizzly]

On my old school, we had 2 accounts for each year. one had the internet connection set, the other hadn't. we didn't have the password for the internet one.

But then, I found out how to set the internet configuration from inside Internet Explorer (all other ways had been cut of), and we could acces without using the secret password..