as those of you who were on massassi chat know, i got busted at my high school for 'hacking', and i finanally found out my punishment today. 5 days suspension, 100 hours of community service, and i was dropped from computer science without a grade (so it wont effect my gpa). in addition, i got myself a spot on the list of known white hat hackers in america.

its miniscule in comparison to being charged with a felony, but still pretty harsh for wanting to use netbeans =(

O_o what did you do? Dare I ask?

I wrote a program that disables a few registry settings, and launches the group policy editor

And you got caught how?

another kid in class was caught using the admin account that he got using cain and abel, and after he was discovered they searched everything at the school at taxpayer expense

Haha.

I got away with my hacking.

... mostly because I had lower-level hackers getting caught for me.

This is one reason I'm actually glad I went to a private school. No legal jurisdiction inside school walls, except for the obvious.

A kid got caught doing something similar and was suspended for a week. Thats it.

I'm suprised they didn't restrict you from computers for a month or two, I guess thats the standard with "computer crimes."

they did, but it was pretty much a given that i would be banned. its not like it matters, im not in computer science anymore anyway

You're on the list.

At least they didn't bust you for drawing furry art. Now THAT would be embarrassing and dramatic.

That's BS. They should give you a warning and let you go on your way. What a big waste of time.

What registry settings we talking about?

Back in college we busted a kid for possessing furry drawings and stories on his network share. He felt he had every right to revel in his bisexual furry desires.

HACKERS ON STEROIDS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

schools today are believe in overpunishment zero tolerance policy

That's a pretty harsh punishment. I'd probably tell them to blow it out their ***, but I suppose they've involved the police.

Because he is a dangerous criminal and could do horrible HORRIBLE things!
Really I don't think any of the teachers even know what he was doing, they just heard "Hacker" and **** their pants.

that they did. this overreaction cost taxpayers 20 to 30 thousand dollars, when I still know kids who get high everyday in the bathrooms.

Smoking pot in the bathroom doesn't break as many things as changing settings someone else set for you that you don't need to take to type **** up in class.

Someone at my HS set IE's home page to the local network copy of the school's website, instead of the online website. So when I fire up IE my "unauthorized" network access is logged and I got in trouble.

When I was in middle school and the fruit-colored iMacs were just 2-3 years old, kids got in trouble for "hacking" by changing the desktop backgrounds, renaming the hard desktop folders / hard drive, and other such operations Go technophobia.

Unlike smoking in bathrooms, messing around with computers in the lab involve using property that cost thousands and thousands of dollars a year. The computers, the servers, the equipment and the facilities all amount to large, large sums of money. Obviously they are going hunt down the person who is responsible for doing unauthorized activities.

Claiming that this is same as smoking a joint in a bathroom by yourself and that the investigation "wasted taxpayer's money" is a weak defense to use against school officials who, while may not understand technology to a large extent, quite understand that those computer labs cost money. Cost a lot of taxpayer's money.

When I was in school I just got the teachers to like me, so they would have me help fix computer ****s.

Back at my school they used something called SynchronEyes that worked through the network to let the teacher keep tabs on what everyone was doing. I discovered a way around it that I only rarely handed out: Unplug the network cable and stop the program/service (Or it may have done that automatically), then plug it back in) The teacher was never wise enough to take note when one of the PC's went offline on their admin version.

Then they installed mirrors on the walls in one of the computer classes...

My "hacking" was never discovered.

Sorry to hear you got busted, I assume you just did what you did out of curiosity. Don't lose that, if that's the case.

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Was NetSupport School for us. Easy to remove, really.


In fact, I was able to reinstall it with admin privileges, go figure.

We have that. But the teacher is too damn lazy to actually watch the thing. I'd find a way around the program if she didn't use it to send files for class.

My HS "gave" us each laptops which we used for the 4 years we were there. Originally it came with "EyeGuard" software to make sure we weren't watching porn or what have you, but everyone (and I do mean everyone) knew how to kill it (just kill the process) and they only checked it once. It was pretty necessary to close it anyway, as it would use 50+% of the CPU when it was running. It was ridiculous.

That program only lasted the first year, they didn't reinstall it after that. Instead they chose just to add a school proxy filter for the internet. That filter was a pain in the ***, as it would even block the most basic of files from being downloaded. You couldn't use AIM or similar either as most ports were blocked. But they forgot to block 443, which I used to connect to home and proxy from.

After a while of finding various ways through their proxy (and passing it around quietly), they finally turned off their proxy my senior year and we could do whatever.

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Your highschool gave you laptops to use, CM? wtf

hax

whatever it was they used at my high school to block **** was pretty weak... never looked at porn though quite a few porn sites were not blocked... the computers were ancient and i had a much more recent computer at home with quite a bit of privacy

i did look at some stuff that probably should have been blocked and i probably would have been kicked out if a teacher saw (stuff related to DIY explosives)... but i didn't do anything that would have been considered hacking

I put "gave" in quotation marks because it wasn't really given, it was part of the tuition (it was not optional though, you had to get it). We were allowed to keep it after we graduated though (whoop de doo they were practically useless by then).

howd you connect to home cm