Much like foo@phreedom.net (who's a friend of mine), I got suspended in this district as well. Freshman year I got the admin password through pwlcrack, but I didn't use it. Sophmore year, the administrator left a computer logged on with full privaledges for 40 minutes unattended... and I took all his personal stuff and copied it to the public file server. I got 5 days for this. Another friend of mine got the admin password from pwlcrack and stole everyones locker combinations. Another friend put an animated esheep on the network server. Now, the point of this is not that my friends and I are l33t haxors, or even that we are cool. The point is that if you don't have good security you are asking for trouble. When I got busted, I was compared to a thief taking things out of a teachers drawer while she was out of the room. Frankly, I don't think thats fair. There's a world of difference between having someone break into a network, or just sit down and do a file copy. Thats why teachers lock their desks at night instead of just assuming that everyone is going to be a honorable person. The sad story is that we TOLD the network administrators what we were capable of. We sat down and walked them through exactly what the problems were. No antivirus. No write protection on the file servers. Aministrator.pwl files on every computer. And, in turn, we were all shot down, ignored, or threatened until we shut up. One time, I took in an article for the admin that said IBM antivirus was going under, and that it would no longer be supported. I told him that soon his definitions would be out of date and he should get a replacement piece of software. For my troubles, I was called a wise-ass, and I was not spoken too for a week out of spite. My own teacher, ignoring me because I tried to help him out in a friendly, non-confrontational way. I did what I did to make a point, and to be taken seriously. Its only AFTER I got suspended that I was called down to the office and asked what should be done to better protect the network. And I didn't even hack in! The fact is, between the ignorant admins and the principles who follow what the ignoratnadmins unconditionally, the whole system is a mess. And I'm sure whats true for the high school is true for the middle school as well. I too was threatened with jail time. Whatever the principle of Grover said to that kid, you can take my word for it that it was trumped up and designed to intimidate. Frankly the whole process disgusts me, and I've given up being involved with the school computer department at all. A incident like this was bound too happen, and unfortunately, I don't think this is the last time it will occur.
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Much like foo@phreedom.net (who's a friend of mine), I got suspended in this district as well. Freshman year I got the admin password through pwlcrack, but I didn't use it. Sophmore year, the administrator left a computer logged on with full privaledges for 40 minutes unattended... and I took all his personal stuff and copied it to the public file server. I got 5 days for this. Another friend of mine got the admin password from pwlcrack and stole everyones locker combinations. Another friend put an animated esheep on the network server. Now, the point of this is not that my friends and I are l33t haxors, or even that we are cool. The point is that if you don't have good security you are asking for trouble. When I got busted, I was compared to a thief taking things out of a teachers drawer while she was out of the room. Frankly, I don't think thats fair. There's a world of difference between having someone break into a network, or just sit down and do a file copy. Thats why teachers lock their desks at night instead of just assuming that everyone is going to be a honorable person. The sad story is that we TOLD the network administrators what we were capable of. We sat down and walked them through exactly what the problems were. No antivirus. No write protection on the file servers. Aministrator .pwl files on every computer. And, in turn, we were all shot down, ignored, or threatened until we shut up. One time, I took in an article for the admin that said IBM antivirus was going under, and that it would no longer be supported. I told him that soon his definitions would be out of date and he should get a replacement piece of software. For my troubles, I was called a wise-ass, and I was not spoken too for a week out of spite. My own teacher, ignoring me because I tried to help him out in a friendly, non-confrontational way. I did what I did to make a point, and to be taken seriously. Its only AFTER I got suspended that I was called down to the office and asked what should be done to better protect the network. And I didn't even hack in! The fact is, between the ignorant admins and the principles who follow what the ignoratnadmins unconditionally, the whole system is a mess. And I'm sure whats true for the high school is true for the middle school as well. I too was threatened with jail time. Whatever the principle of Grover said to that kid, you can take my word for it that it was trumped up and designed to intimidate. Frankly the whole process disgusts me, and I've given up being involved with the school computer department at all. A incident like this was bound too happen, and unfortunately, I don't think this is the last time it will occur.