Comment by rsp1984
4 years ago
In case anyone else is wondering how the heck the kid got access to the district's network, the key sentence is hidden in the middle of the post:
Since freshman year, I had complete access to the IPTV system. I only messed around with it a few times and had plans for a senior prank, but it moved to the back of my mind and eventually went forgotten.
Not sure why they don't go into more detail about how exactly "complete access" was obtained, since that is obviously the hardest part of hacking any system. Not trying to downplay the achievement here, just think that this would have deserved a bit more detail.
He explains it quite clearly that him and his friends were port scanning the schools network for funsies.
"From the results, we found various devices exposed on the district network. These included printers, IP phones... and even security cameras without any password authentication!"
It seems like he just was on the school network and the IPTV devices were also on the same network with no authentication.