IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by dyingkneepad on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:24PM (#28844632)

I feel so dumb when I read kids doing these things. Back in High School all I knew was how I could run arbitrary executable files by renaming them to calc.exe. We also did the classic "take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the wallpaper, then remove all icons and the start menu" thing.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by rmorey on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:09PM (#28847442)

Another good one on that level was using the Windows keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-down to rotate the display upside down - totally harmless, but absolutely maddening if you don’t know how to undo it

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by rocqua on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:21AM (#28850827)

Even better if you combined it with an upside down screenshot of the desktop. So it looked like only the mouse was upside down and all buttons didn't work.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by gpt5 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:06AM (#28848121)

Unfortunately, this feature was discontinued by most graphics drivers.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by nyanpasu64 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:54AM (#28852081)

I think it's a good thing that Ctrl+Alt+Arrow is no longer intercepted by graphics drivers, since IMO shortcuts not containing Win should be handled by apps and not the system.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by lysurgic on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:04AM (#28850703)

This is still a common prank at work on win10 pc’s

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by alistairSH on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:58PM (#28846149)

All this. Plus TI-86 king fu. Though this was 1991-1995, IoT didn’t exist and email and web access was mostly through AOL or Prodigy.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by quadcore on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:16PM (#28857109)

I told a friend who knew absolutely nothing about computers to go and type format c: on the school only computer and wait for the result. It turned a bit ugly but we're still friend :)

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by severak_cz on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:14PM (#28858307)

Change wallpaper to some crap. Take a screenshot of desktop. Change wallpaper back and open screenshot with crap on the background in fullscreen mode.

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Re:IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district by gmadsen on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:43AM (#28864089)

back in middle school we would just use proxys to play online games on the library that were regularly blocked

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