Our Chemistry teacher typed his password on a tablet and the image was projected on the screen. So I watched which keys appeared depressed and was able to login later, view GradeQuick, had ability to change grades, but didn't. Good thing I didn't get caught, I might be in federal prison. I did get caught for making a "virus", which was just a webpage that opened it self onload. I think I just got detention for that though.
I poisoned the squid cache at my school and made a fake sex offenders website with all of the teachers on it. Times have changed.
Re:Computer Science by Mail
by hansolo669 on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:22PM
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Heh, with some friends I took down the email service board wide for a day via auto-responder. Unlikely you could do that today - most schools are switching to Office365.
Nice. I short-circuited the school ethernet network, shutdown the access to internet school-wide forcing all office staff to work on paper for two days. Suspended 2 days.
The Windows version my school ran dumped these hashed password files of everyone who logged in. It was trivial to copy them and crack them at home but it certainly gave me an uneasy feeling so I stopped.
Re:Computer Science by Mail
by santaclaus on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:25AM
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Back in high school our library had absolutely ancient DOS machines from the early 90s. It was always fun to make autoexec.bat call autoexec.bat on boot...
Yes, TLS http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer is at least somewhat approachable without the aid of a computer.
After too many attempts it would lock us out and we'd have to wait to try again. One day when our teacher was trying to start class he found that he had been locked out. We all started laughing and he knew why.
The next day there was a sign on the door telling us that the class had been moved to a new room. When we arrived we found that the classroom had no computers. The work was the same. The lessons progressed. But we wrote all that Pascal on paper. We only had one chance to turn something in and I remember going home and trying to remember all the code to type into my home computer to see if my program would compile.
Anyway, I would suggest someone sending this guy a copy of The Little Schemer. Anyone can read that book and gain great confidence in a short amount of time while starting to think the way a programmer ought to think.