Comment by koboll
4 years ago
A good buddy of mine did the same, but with the message "DOOM!"
His punishment was community service, and the service was having to be basically an intern for the school IT guy. Smart administration, really.
4 years ago
A good buddy of mine did the same, but with the message "DOOM!"
His punishment was community service, and the service was having to be basically an intern for the school IT guy. Smart administration, really.
That's the only proper response, really. You love to see it.
I'll never understand braindead school administrators whose response is "throw the entire CFAA book at them" for kids who do the most harmless sort of "hacking". I mean, they're literally 16-year-olds. How disconnected from reality does one have to be to think that police/legal action is appropriate for this type of stuff? It's like they're specifically trying to ruin lives and create criminals/blackhats.
Edit: And something I remembered while scrolling this thread... it's particularly disappointing when it's the actual IT staff who get mad and threaten to press charges. Like, sure, if it's a 60-year-old secretary who's worried about you starting WWIII by whistling into a payphone, that's just ignorance, that's one thing. But IT people ought to know enough about security/"hacking" to see how ridiculous they're being... just sad.
> How disconnected from reality does one have to be to think that police/legal action is appropriate for this type of stuff?
They don't ask that. They just want their computers to always magically work and having to dedicate mental resources to events in IT at all is an intrusion to their time - to them, throwing CFAA at them is "setting an example".
Nice Mitnick callback.
I received a similar punishment for running an autoclicker against some charity adware installed by a well-meaning administrator.
That semester of internship was pretty fun, all things considered.
That's such a wholesome punishment.
Same punishment for me back in high school when I "guessed" the admin password. They all knew I didn't guess it and was given the job/community service. They kept the same password.