Need ideas for lulz

[stuntpenguin007]

I'm in the mood for some lulz right now and I'm thinking I'm going to go to different stores and get on the PA system and say things. I used to do it at walmart when they had phones everywhere. What do you guys do for lulz? Another thing I want to do is get on one of the PA systems in my school. Hopefully they're using analog transmitters. Then I should be able to find the right frequency with a HAM radio and have some fun with that.

One more fun thing to do is to go on a random computer in my school, open command prompt and then type "shutdown -i". It gives you a list of all the computers on the network and you can shut them down.

 

[04tm34l3]

One more fun thing to do is to go on a random computer in my school, open command prompt and then type "shutdown -i". It gives you a list of all the computers on the network and you can shut them down.

my school has you log on before use, so they can track you

but it could be done on an unsuspecting bathroom user

 

[Kickback]

We had that at my school, we shut down the entire server.

 

[ShockSlayer]

General school networking shenanigans are fun, till your computer teacher makes you teach him how you did that, then prevents you from doing it. XD Fortunatly he was a cool guy, when we were done with assignments he let us plug the ZNWii into the projector and play Melee or Soul Caliber 2.

Our school PA system was wired, so it was easy to get access to, but too annoying to actually hook up anything.

SS

 

[stuntpenguin007]

my school has you log on before use, so they can track you

but it could be done on an unsuspecting bathroom user

At my school it isn't that hard to get another person's logon information, so it's pretty easy to get away with stuff like that. Although I'm sure they can still tell which computer was used and then use the cameras to figure out who you are. They haven't talked to me yet .

 

[XCVG]

My school is locked down pretty tight. The command prompt is locked (which prevents me from using AVRDUDE ), and the computers are all protected with DeepFreeze. However, there is one serious vulnerability. Virtually all the computers will boot from a USB drive (found this out by accident) and the BIOSes are not locked.

 

[Mako321]

My school is locked down pretty tight. The command prompt is locked (which prevents me from using AVRDUDE ), and the computers are all protected with DeepFreeze. However, there is one serious vulnerability. Virtually all the computers will boot from a USB drive (found this out by accident) and the BIOSes are not locked.

Our computers are locked down with SchoolConnect and I haven't found a way to do most things on it.
The bios is locked, but we can still boot off USB drives.
Those idiots.

 

[stuntpenguin007]

Command Prompt is blocked at my school too. I'm able to get around it by going on the internet, right clicking a picture and doing a save target as. Then a file browser window comes up with the default directory set as the C: drive which is normally inaccessible. From there I navigate to cmd.exe, right click it and then open it.

I've also heard of people being able to bypass blocks with batch files, but batch files are blocked at my school.

 

[bic]

I remember back in school there was a way to get around the logon screen in Win95 by exploiting the Help system and some HP printer driver. There's a GIF of the procedure floating around the web, but the gist is you went through some hoops until you got an Open or Save box, then you opened explorer.exe which ran as the syslogon user. I remember once some idiot hooked two ports of a 10-base T hub into the wall (makes it go twice as fast ) and took down half the building because the building's network wasn't set up properly.

Now I'm working the other side of the IT law.

(Keep breaking stuff though... That's what keeps people like me in the business of wiping the computers to fix the damage you caused so you lose all the schoolwork, game servers, and pornography we told you not to save to the local hard drive.)

e:

the C: drive which is normally inaccessible

If the lockdown software is set up right, you shouldn't be able to type "C:\" in the address bar in any Explorer or IE window and circumvent the fact that the icon is hidden in My Computer.

 

[grossaffe]

at our school, command prompt was locked, but that didn't stop us. When we logged in, the network would set our permissions, so we'd simply disconnect the ethernet cable after logging in but before permissions got set. after the log and permissions process finished, we could put the ethernet cable back in and we were good to go.

another method was to just write down your commands as .bat files and run them

 

[Mako321]

at our school, command prompt was locked, but that didn't stop us. When we logged in, the network would set our permissions, so we'd simply disconnect the ethernet cable after logging in but before permissions got set. after the log and permissions process finished, we could put the ethernet cable back in and we were good to go.

another method was to just write down your commands as .bat files and run them

Your school computer allowed .bat files to be run? You lucky *Can'tSayThisOnTV*

 

[XCVG]

I'm not sure if .bat files can be run. The problem is that all the computers run DeepFreeze so any changes you make will be nuked on the next reboot. Only way to disable this would be to either steal the password or to boot from another device and get rid of it. Hmm, I should write a fake DeepFreeze app so nobody gets suspicious . The computers are secure, yes, but it makes them a royal pain in the ass to use. FTDI drivers? Install every boot. Network goes down? You're *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ed, unless you are like me and have a USB drive (computers are still horribly slow though). It doesn't help that they are super bloated P4 machines.

 

[samjc3]

Im that asshole that brought in my SSD and a geforce 230. Installed em and then played Oblivion, etc on the godawful school PCs. USB booting was also a fine option. As was a forced local boot. Also Sucking up bandwidth to simply remote desktop to my home PC.

 

[04tm34l3]

id be more inclined to do something to a school computer if the punishments weren't so harsh (well in my school atleast)

some kid got a few days of detention/suspension (not sure which) for bypassing the internet filter (it was something more than a proxy)

not sure how many days of suspension/detention a couple of lulz for shutting down the schools comps are worth

 

[XCVG]

Im that asshole that brought in my SSD and a geforce 230. Installed em and then played Oblivion, etc on the godawful school PCs. USB booting was also a fine option. As was a forced local boot. Also Sucking up bandwidth to simply remote desktop to my home PC.

That is awesome. I would totally do something like that, except our school computers use IDE/PATA and have AGP slots.

 

[J.D]

My school computers run Fedora. Playstations.

 

[XCVG]

Are you kidding? There are TONS of neat/bad things you can do with/to Linux. I don't know any, though, being a Windows guy myself.

 

[J.D]

When administered and set up correctly, a user of the educational flavor of Fedora can't do flax can't even access the Linux version of Task Manager. Last year though, you were able to look and edit other students' files, but one kid got suspended for it because our computer guy was able to track him down. Not worth it.

 

[samjc3]

When administered and set up correctly, a user of the educational flavor of Fedora can't do flux can't even access the Linux version of Task Manager. Last year though, you were able to look and edit other students' files, but one kid got suspended for it because our computer guy was able to track him down. Not worth it.

Pro tip: Dont get caught. Use other peoples logins. use library PCs when lots of people are around. Be sneaky. No records. being friendly with the IT people helps. Heck, point out a security flaw. They wont expect you to destroy everything then.

Thats what I did. Its been more than a year and I havent in trouble yet.

 

[stuntpenguin007]

If the lockdown software is set up right, you shouldn't be able to type "C:\" in the address bar in any Explorer or IE window and circumvent the fact that the icon is hidden in My Computer.

I'm not able to get to it by typing C:\ into the address bar of Internet Explorer, so I think it's just a flaw with having the default save location being C:\. I thought about pointing it out to an IT teacher but I figured I'd keep it to myself in case I ever came up with a use for it. I gave a random account I know the login to admin privileges or something like that, but I still wasn't able to gain access to the servers I wanted to snoop around on.