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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by arethuza on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:43AM (#36860422)
We used to play pranks on each other such as logging into the NeWS server on a colleagues machine and manually setting a small rotation in the transformation matrix for a terminal window that someone was typing in....

NeWS had an interactive PostScript shell and almost no security so this kind of mucking about was trivial...

Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by jfk13 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:22AM (#36860693)
Ah, good times.... we used to do similar things across the HP Apollo workstations at the place where a friend of mine worked (and I unofficially "borrowed" computing facilities for a project of my own -- though I did also contribute a substantial speed optimization to their main product, so nobody seemed to mind).
Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by gcr on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:55AM (#36860971)
For april fools' day, on my first job as a troublesome ~16-year-old administering our university lab's firewall (academia was a different land when it comes to trust), I set up some automatic network-wide substring replacement filters for incoming HTTP responses to replace `<body` with something like `<body style="transform: rotate(0.1deg);"`. This was in the time before HTTPS was ubiquitous, so it worked on most websites.

Unfortunately, it broke some pages that lab users needed for school. I later learned one colleague wasn't able to complete a homework assignment because of my prank.

Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by crest on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:03AM (#36862388)
The joy of running Upside-Down-Ternet as transparent proxy on April Fool's day.
Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by hackmiester on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:58PM (#36872902)
I last did this in about 2011-2012 and was shocked and/or pleased to discover many images on my friend's Xbox 360 dashboard turning upside down!!