Comment by nudgeee

4 years ago

I got in trouble and subsequently suspended from school back in the ‘90s for causing BSOD’s on classmates computers using WinNuke [0]. They classed it as vandalism even though the payload causes no permanent damage (apart from losing unsaved work).

I found more severe vulnerabilities including being able to lift home addresses of students by querying an unprotected endpoint. Didn’t get in trouble for this one, and reported it promptly to the IT administrator.