Yeah but this was a harmless little joke, it is not like i got rid of tons of papers or changed grades or anything.

polices are policies though. When, I was at high school, I was told that my account would be watched very hard because I took a certification course and passed it. I never did one thing to even warrant a high level of watching outside of the course (some of the work were against the rules, but we had our own network for that, so they looked the other way on that stuff then).

Each school runs things obviously differently, even different schools in the same district at times. My senior year of high school, I had one course at a different high school in the district (we have 3 high schools, all that operate semi-independently). One day, the people at the other building were placed on new account restrictions, but my account was not (the account works on all district computers in all the buildings), but we quickly got around that also, just to see if it could be done. We just logged in with under my Novell account, created a new Windows admin account (the account we logged into was a Windows Administrator, which was really stupid), and they were able to get around all the restrictions that were just placed on them. It was quite funny actually that they were that stupid that it was that stupid, then again, usually people don't take classes at two buildings, so they probably did not expect that to happen.

And yet you are still the complete retard that decided it was a good idea. It isn't a funny joke, and people like you were the reason that whenever someone found out I was good with computers, I was instantly treated with suspicion.

So screw you, grow up, and be less of an idiot.

Harmless from your point of view, but from his point of view, if you were able to put a program to disable mouse clicks on his computer, what's to stop you from building in functionality to let you remotely access and modify his documents, such as his gradebook? Common sense and logic should tell you that doing anything to his computer in the first place is a stupid idea.

The worst thing I've done in school is open up a proxy so I could check my email during work time. Well that and boot one of the computers in xubuntu with the Livecd I had in my backpack.

Do they have a policy against LiveCDs? I wouldn't think that there would be anything wrong with that unless you were trying to circumvent security measures by using the LiveCD.

The worst I've done was pretty bad I wrote a program that gets around my school's blocking of command prompt and batch files, and made the mistake of giving to someone else. He used it to net send a message to the whole network. He meant to type "I am ****** feel my wrath," where ****** is a teacher's name at the school, but he accidentally wrote "******* feel my wrath." This of course was horrible, shocked the whole staff, and the police got involved. So after that, I learned never to trust other people with my "tools"

The student hand book states that one cannot run and software or programs on school computers with out a network administrators permission, they don't state third party OS's or Livecd's but that doesn't make much of a difference. (you have implied permission for programs already installed on the system.) Next year I plan to try out a Knoppix Live DVD "Knoppix desktop=xfce xmodule=vesa screen=1280x768" FTW

wow my old circumventor was blocked after a couple weeks when I gave it to someone.... not much of a story there....

Moral of the story: It's stupid to try to get around school computer security. Do your screwing around on your own machine.

The worst thing I did was write a VBS script that made the computers open their disk drives. Also when they closed the drives they would reopen.

I once figured out how to get past the security system on the computers. In third grade. Needless to say it was incredibly easy but somehow I was the only one who figured it out.

In middle school I figured out the password to the vice principal's account on the school system, and I was planning on changing the background to a simple image with something like "We're watching you." written in bold letters on it, but I never got around to it.

My school had a an account setup for substitute teachers with the user name and pass both being teacher. Needless to say it wasn't long before kids figured that out, last year they remade the account but the user name and pass were changed to "football".

edit: speaking of stupid school computer related things next year my school plans on banning USB thumb drives. They claim is for security and virus issues but I think their just too cheap to buy better anti virus software so their blaming the students for the viruses. instead of flash drives they want us to use their "netstorage" setup which allows us to access the same drives we can at school. The issue there is people with dial up or slow connections will have to wait a long time just for the page to load let alone download their files. Plus the system is down quite often and is slow as hell even with broadband. during the last few weeks of school it was down almost every other night.

That's a terrible idea, that sounds like a threat. You guys show a depressing lack of common sense with your forays outside the law.

Hey, I never even thought about doing something about that. Be more specific on who you mean by "you guys".

Dude, I didn't do it. And I probably wouldn't have even if I had found the time.

And getting past the school security system in 3rd grade was a joke. In fact, my teacher knew I could do it and because it was such a chaotic classroom and she needed something off the computer she asked me to go on the computer even though I didn't have an account.

Yeah, but you considered it. I'm not attacking you or anyone in particular, I understand the distinction between thinking about something and realizing it's a bad idea and actually going through with it. However, I've heard enough stories here in the past of people actually following through with stunningly idiotic ideas concerning security circumvention that I'm wary of any ideas, acted upon or not, that we, as a group of technologically-minded individuals who may or may not have sufficient common sense, come up with.

Dude our school is going to do the same thing but the bad part is that our school already also blocks the vast majority of online storage, saying that instead students should only save files to the school server =(

Floppy disks ftw! I miss the days when they were still floppy...*sigh*

and sadly enough our original, decade old macs dont even have floppy drives... =D Hell, I think we might have some zip drives...