8th Grader Suspended for Using 'net send' Command

HRH King Lerxst writes: "The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has an article detailing how a middle school student was suspended for three days for 'hacking.' His hack? Sending a popup message to the other computers in the school...from within the shcool." The 8th grader in question used the "net send" command to send a single word message ("Hey!") to the 80 machines tied to his school's network. How this can be construed as "hacking", I leave up to you.

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[Wingit]

This network administrator (me) did disable the command line and the run button, but still had this happen at our public library. Since M$ Word seems to require access to the desktop, the clever teen wrote a one line batch file in Word, and saved it as text with a CMD extention onto the desktop. If it becomes an epidemic, I may have to go one more step and delete net.exe or at least rename it on public terminals. Still, I think the teen was pleased when I walked up to him an congratulated him for his ingenuity. I just asked him not to do it again and not to tell his friends. I have not had another incident since.