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Comment by godtoldmetodoit

4 years ago

Reminds me of when I attended my districts technical career center for 2 years. We had ~3 hours of various IT learning every morning with kids from high schools all over the county before we all went back to our normal schools.

We'd of course run out of stuff to do and start messing around with our newly honed skills. Learning about net send wasn't too bad, we just sent dumb messages to each other. But learning vbscript combined with net send... you could DoS the other machines with a for loop.

One morning I was playing around with the net send script, but accidentally plugged into the schoolwide LAN instead of our local network... every computer in the building got locked down with some idiotic message my 17 year old brain had come up with. IT took a educated guess and came down to our class and I fessed up, thankfully they let me off with a stern talking to and promises to never do it again.