The time I got suspended from school...

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[@Heidegaff]

Public school be like: "This child proved to be incredibly smart, resourceful and knowledgeable in the IT field for his young age. SUSPEND HIM!"

[@RowanBird779]

"This guy is smarter than the entire IT department, I'm gonna harass and suspend him"

[@bruhmoment3106]

If you think deleting OS and just reinstalling OS is considered “incredibly smart” then i think you still need to be in school

[@minisammich892]

@@bruhmoment3106 He never deleted or reinstalled any OS. He made a clever use of a hole the IT department left with the unlocked F12 menu and half empty drive.

[@bruhmoment3106]

@@minisammich892 he literally said he installed windows by that F12 command prompt . Again not very impressive just messing around with school equipment and obviously got called out on it by his school.

[@Heidegaff]

@@bruhmoment3106 yes yes, I'm sure you were a tech genius right out of the womb, but for us people that actually don't need to stroke their ego to make up for their parents considering them an utter failure, for a 15 year old highschooler he's been pretty smart.

[@kooldogkid149]

Imagine getting banned/suspended for using a superior browser

[@ytchautszyiu]

Australian rules I guess

[@_KDP]

ikr ie < firefox

[@samiwilmot7413]

Lol

[@themastereal8345]

Why’d you spoil the video :(

[@gorfelbt]

Australian skill issue I guess

[@cargo_vroom9729]

School: gives students a laptop, an empty hard drive partition and a valid Windows 7 key. Students: install Win7. School: shockedpikachuface.jpg

[@recomical]

“HOW DARE YOU USE RESOURCES IN A SMART WAY WHICH IS KINDA THE POINT OF SCHOOL!”

[@Scrotonious]

At my high school, kids were getting suspended for selling drugs, vandalism, and coming to school drunk. Meanwhile, this guy got suspended for being more intelligent and resourceful than his entire school's IT department

[@enegizedadam]

Schools are truly living in the middle ages and it's not the fault of the teachers (mostly) but the ministry's

[@MrVaskor]

Exactly! The school seems extremely strict. Also, why would the school's contract with Microsoft be threatened, exactly? A senior person at Microsoft would be better off giving him a job offer at the company! In fact, in our school, around 1996, a (student) computer geek got a job offer paying £20,000 to work in IT, which was a great salary at the time, especially for a 17-year-old without a university degree.

[@blueberry1c2]

Out of context, being pulled out of class and being asked, in an extremely serious manner, "what's 8-1" is hilarious

[@Spectral69]

7

[@theevilsnips]

the longest level in the game.

[@mootwo_]

@@theevilsnips cool fact, didn't know that! also haha, _The Game_

[@mimejrice-cream7291]

@@mootwo_ you mother fucker. You got me good. Well done, fellow player.

[@THAT1ZELDAFAN]

As others said, I would have said "It's 7, is that a trick question?", or gone "It's a level in New Super Mario World for the DS, and it's hard"

[@amphicorp4725]

"it makes the network unstable" has been an excuse by teachers for DECADES to stop any digital shenanigans

[@mrcyborg9216]

When there’s school events the teachers live stream it so our school keeps telling us to not use our Chromebooks

[@clubcyberia8572]

imagine telling those same teachers all the ways that Internet Explorer is IN FACT how most viruses get introduced to computers.

[@newbleppmore7855]

In Australia the network is constantly unstable even more so 10 years ago

[@voidyt9939]

Exactly! In middle school, I was caught (and subsequently) banned for downloading stuff on the school WiFi. They said it'd "stop everything they were doing." I obliged, but I stills mell bullshit.

[@enderger5308]

That would bring me to say “citation needed”. I always brought my own laptop, but programmed in the background instead of playing games.

[@extenos]

the school blocking a website with just “fun” as the description is kind of crazy

[@user-qp3qj2jv6f]

NO FUN ALLOWED YOU ARE FORBIDDEN FROM HAVING FUN AT SCHOOL

[@BenEsherick]

I actually did this exact same thing on my school laptops, except they ran Windows 10 by default, so I just re-installed a clean copy that wasn’t locked down. Since the school couldn’t tell the difference between my re-install and the original, all it took to get the school wi-fi password was asking the tech lady to type it in for me, since I’d randomly “lost access to the wi-fi” somehow. Then, with my admin privileges, you know the rest of the story🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mauromerconchini]

My high-school never gave out laptops to its students. However, my school had a teacher who taught networking and programming who was amazingly cool. One of the things he had in his classroom was giant stacks of old dead laptops with all kinds of defects. It could be something simple like a corrupted OS or something more complex like dead hardware. His policy was that if any of his students could pick one from the junk pile, fix it up, and get an OS to boot, then congratulations: it's theirs now. What a hell of a guy!

[@Buizie]

w teacher such an epic teacher that you have

[@gluttonousmaximus9048]

That school must be a young geek's heaven

[@mrcyborg9216]

I would of gotten a pile of those if I was in your classroom

[@ya_boy_jadco5827]

I had the exact same situation, we also helped cleaning a classroom full with tech and we could keep anything we wanted.

[@bland9876]

I had some classes like that in my school. One time I had a class in the room next to his and we had to use the crappies laptops ever. They still had WinXP on them. Thankfully not vista. This was during the win7/8 erra. I tried using my iPod touch as much as possible but it sucked. I wanted a Windows tablet so badly that I held off buying an iPad. Now a day I actually prefer android sometimes over Win 10. Not sure if it's cuz I'm so use to it or if it is definitively better for some tasks. There was one time I used an Nvidia Shield as my main device when my phone broke.

[@SalC1]

Wow this brings back memories. Got a talking to by the computer lab "teacher" for using chrome rather than internet explorer. At the beginning of the year she gave us this quiz on computer peripherals. One of the questions was: "What device is used to take pictures to transfer to the computer?" Obviously, a webcam. I got that wrong. The correct answer..... camera.

[@Gauley_]

Bro i didn't know sal watched Mattkc

[@spritzerland658]

salc1 is a watcher of mattkc? wild

[@aimee_]

Hi SalC1!

[@ownerofanheartofthesunrise]

But... that's in the name?

[@thetechdudemc]

skittlemc

[@0815dude]

Reminds me of the story where I "hacked" the school PCs. Got suspended from IT class. The principal and IT teacher where so mad even though I didn't even really did anything. They couldn't even believe that those PCs just didn't had an admin password. At least my parents where proud of it

[@trisiegt]

Same thing here. I love Kent! (Kent, UK, not Kentucky, US)

[@Theunicorn2012]

Reminds me of the story where l "hacked" the school PCs. Got suspended from lT class. The principal and IT teacher where so mad even though l didn't even really did anything. They couldn't even believe that those PCs just didn't had an admin password. At least my parents where proud of it

[@stupidfuckingrat]

@@Theunicorn2012Carbon copy.

[@itsentdev]

That's the joke...

[@CinnamonGhost_Crunch]

Saying you hacked into a computer with no password is like trying to say that someone broke into your house when you left the door wide open

[@badsubtitles498]

10:52 for us tech nerds, it's hard to imagine someone seeing windows 7 and not immediately recognising it.

[@markusTegelane]

Getting banned/suspended for using an alternate browser is basically software racism

[@flintfrommother3gaming]

I believe in Technologism, every user has freedom on their hardware!

[@tubbunny]

Imagine being a browser racist (a browsist)

[@flouride]

@@tubbunny the next thing the radical left will riot about /s

[@papeleradereciclaje4375]

Ugh... I know a lot if people who does this and it's so annoying. My aunt would often get mad at my cousin just because he uses Firefox instead of Chrome. My mom is like this too.

[@TylerFurrison]

@@papeleradereciclaje4375 My sister rags on me for using Chrome because of Google's assholery, at least she has a valid reason

[@virgurilla4084]

I hate when adults punish kids for standing out, being original, or being smart. Great story!

[@galaxygaming5199]

basically what i was gonna comment lol

[@ponies.arecool123]

yes that is totally why he was suspended

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

exactly

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

i got my laptop locked for coding before

[@Octolicia]

I got berated by my teacher for checking a software version (It was during the pandemic and since we where in the middle of a new wave, we had to do our assignments at home instead of at school. One of our assignments required that we needed to use a software and its database. The IT department had to update the software to a new version and because I never booted up my PC, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to get my PC before the afternoon. I did saw the memo and checked the version by clicking on About. When I told what I did, the teacher told me that I wasn't supposed to do that, that I was supposed to bring the computer back to the IT guy to check for me. So you're telling me, that I must do a 3km walk from home to school just to check a stupid software version? Forget it!)

[@odddellarobbia4]

the definition of "it's not about the money it's about sending a message"

[@SaloCh]

My school started to use a learning site for some classes, where you had to answer some questions and submit them to get your score, at which point it'd tell you what you got wrong and what the right answer was. I found out that if you disabled wifi on your laptop you'd still get the correct answers but your answers wouldn't be submitted. So you could even answer randomly, disable wifi, see the correct answers, and redo the test. That wasn't the only problem with that site, people could also just take turns doing the test first and sharing the answers with others, but I still kinda felt like a hacker for doing it. We didn't use that site next year

[@1aneonyme88]

you could have used the dev console to see networks packets and maybe collect every answers before even starting the test 🤣

[@entechcore]

I remember getting talked to by the police for pinging an IP in school... That was also the same school where I got told off for having asthma As you can tell, they're not very smart there

[@cry1ng-0ni0n_]

lol thats not even remotely hacking

[@Orincaby]

typical school in Ohio

[@xmlthegreat]

What in the name of fuck do the police have to do with some kid pinging google or whatever... Fucking schools man...

[@Fighter178]

Wait, so you got in trouble for doing what a web browser does, but manually?????

[@elephystry]

If you type in the IP address of a website you can sometimes bypass blocked sites. I did that in primary school to go on youtube since that was blocked.

[@stuff31]

I love that you got kicked out for an entire term for using firefox but only two days for dualbooting the school's entire computer repository

[@soup_pigeon]

kicked off the computers for a month, not the whole school

[@stuff31]

@@soup_pigeon still pretty overkill, two days off school is peanuts to 28 days computer ban

[@90sNath]

​@@soup_pigeon that was for pivot. For Firefox it was a while

[@chickenmanfy]

@@90sNath no it was a full semester.

[@damian9303]

@@soup_pigeon when I was at school, I remember it being as easy as flicking the switch on a power strip lol

[@mwbgaming28]

And I thought I was good because I managed to get halo CE into the school computer network restore point (meaning it would be reinstalled on every computer, every time a restore point was used) But this is on another level

[@Pocket2441]

Oh no *plays it on a laptop*

[@m3nguele]

dude...wtf

[@LockedPotato]

LMAO. I put a pirated version of Minecraft on the school's shared network drive. So you could launch Minecraft on any PC in the school.

[@sweetelena]

Such a fun story. Here in Argentina the government gave us slow crappy netbooks at public schools. They came in a dual boot setup, with Windows (7 and later 8) and Huayra which was a Linux distro developed by the Ministry of Education. They also had a lot of bloat and limitations, and you could only boot the system twice! You had to connect to the school's wifi every day to recharge your two boots (on later models the amount of boots was increased but still annoying, I remember at the beginning I had to leave it on for days if I knew I was on my last boot). There was a way to bypass this boot limit and free the system, on most models it involved shorting two pins on a chip while turning on the computer and that was it. After that you could install any OS and boot as many times as you wanted, and there was always a couple of dudes that would take your netbook home and "unlock it" as we used to call it. We started getting into low-spec modding, games looked awful but we were happy. Mine is still very usable almost 10 years later, running Debian 11 today.

[@CB0516]

Why were people only allowed to boot the computer twice outside school?

[@sweetelena]

@@CB0516 Because it would force you to go to school in order to be able to use it, ensuring you were an active student.

[@superJK92]

@@sweetelenaHow is that even possible because I am good at tech and I don't even know how to do that

[@sweetelena]

@@superJK92 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hovJiIdtfLecmNk here's a video where they use that method for unlocking one of those netbooks, i think in newer models the locking system is completely software based

[@Xnoob545]

​@@sweetelenadid u archive the ministry's special linux distro

[@jozsefizsak]

It's a shame that intelligence, skill and initiative are so often punished in schools. Presumably, the administrators are unfamiliar with these traits, or perhaps see their jobs as being primarily about teaching obedience. You did something good and deserved better treatment by far. It's certainly funny in hindsight, of course.

[@jozsefizsak]

@@creepysmilingcarl9742 I think you nailed it.

[@OnnieKoski]

I teach, and TBH, I wish we had a more bespoke platform. Like some sort of e-ink word processor. I’d love to find my kids being creative, but all I see is them watching basketball highlights and airdropping fights to each other :-/

[@jozsefizsak]

@@OnnieKoski That's certainly the other side of the coin, I won't deny it.

[@anon_y_mousse]

For decades they've been all about indoctrination. I saw it when I was in school and things have only gotten worse. Granted you will find exceptional teachers that are the exception to the rule, but they are very few and very far between.

[@OnnieKoski]

@@anon_y_mousse then there’s getting kids to pass telpas and starr when all they want to do is play FPSs on their phones :(

[@beenguy5887]

This wasn't just a rebellion, this was a REVOLUTION that kickstarted the information age at your school

[@plumjet0930]

Congratulations on getting a chance to get scammed.

[@justaschoolchadonyoutube.7350]

@@plumjet0930 lol

[@hereis_Tiff]

School laptops... I've got a lot of fun stories about laptops when I was still in High School. One time, an IT teacher wanted to reprimand me for reading the news during a study class. Obviously these study classes are for studying courses and preparing for tests, but at the time being a straight A student, I pretty much had nothing to study most of the time, and we had these study hours every day of the week. Some teachers even claim that you should do homework during these classes, which in my opinion completely ruins the point of homework if you need to work on it during class. At the end of the day I didn't exactly get a reprimand, because I argued that we need to read the news for social studies anyhow. I did need to 'prove' I didn't have anything else to study to that one IT teacher though. Luckily he rarely was present during those study classes, and after a while most of those classes were just scrapped off of my roster due to my grades and overall performance.

[@Mister_RTM]

"What do you know about 8-1?" -an original series by netflix.

[@davisforsythe8875]

I basically did literally this like last year and the IT admin for our entire school district came down and gave this long speech about some kid who "hacked the network" and who later got in trouble with the FBI for "stealing credit cards" and then acted like I was gonna do that.

[@mem_arg3691]

They probably just made it up

[@partitionhlep]

@BA5ED-_-HAX™(ross3695) lmao

[@johnmurcott1273]

@BA5ED-_-HAX™(ross3695) im sorry what the fuck?

[@polocatfan]

@BA5ED-_-HAX™(ross3695) cap

[@RowanBird779]

@BA5ED-_-HAX™(ross3695) My principal at my school thinks he's cool for harassing me for dumb shit, glad I'm graduating next year, right into high school

[@_______DR_______]

When I was in secondary school my friend David and I made the discovery that when IT were restricting literally everything fun on all student accounts, they'd missed Notepad. We used it to make a batch file to open the registry editor and through a lot of trial and error managed to switch off a considerable amount of the restrictions on our accounts. Somewhere along the line when making registry changes we discovered that most of the edits didn't come into effect until you log off and back on again. This is when we discovered the edits we'd made allowed us to see all network mounted drives of which there was about 10, we only normally saw 2 of these. We had some fun swapping folder names about, deleting teaching material of staff we didn't like, and sending all sorts of shit to printers all over the school. We saved our registry configurations on to usb sticks, so we could easily load them, log off and back on and quickly be in our customised windows environment with no school logo wallpaper, or classic windows theme, and the ability to install Firefox as our schools website blocking only worked in IE. One good thing was that as long as the computer you used was either restarted or had someone else log on to it, your account would return to normal. Then one day my ICT teacher spotted that I had the XP blue taskbar and a minimised Firefox window because she was using a piece of software called Vision to monitor the whole class, my account was suspended. Then David somehow found the user directory, and discovered that there where 12 accounts called survey1-survey12 that I think were used on open evenings. I tried Survey1 with the schools default Password1 and I was back in and loaded into custom registry, and days later suspended 😂

[@burp2019]

did a similar thing where i got an admin password for a bunch of the school computers because of the command prompt password requirement just glitching out and not happening, teachers know and just don't care at all about it one of the more chaotic things was using it to bypass the print credit system and spam one of the printers with rick astley, it's amazing the level of not caring at all about it the teachers have since we've got full control over those computers and just use them like we own them, at one point we installed windows 7 on one just because why not also got the school's single non-chromebook, if everyone had regular laptops there'd probably be things like what happened in the video going on with them, but i did get in trouble for unintentionally wiping one lol

[@tbuk8350]

This is exactly why when programming networked applications, you NEVER trust the client. With enough skill, every single piece of a client can be completely modified, down to individual bits in memory. The only way you can trust any security-related checks is when they're done on the server side, as the server is the only code running on your own hardware that you know you can trust. The fact that IE was being used tells me this was long before people were incredibly worried about such a thing, but it's always an important consideration to remember. In any case, I do wish modern school blocking systems didn't consider this, it would be so fun messing around with the network.

[@IncendiaryOCE]

Imagine stopping you from changing the wallpaper I think I was the first to get in trouble with a new "behaviour system" for doing this. Fuck that teacher in general.

[@s8wc3]

@@tbuk8350 Yeah, never trust the client or anything coming from the client, this includes sanitizing user inputs, even those you don't expect the user to actually interact with. At my high school it was possible to crash the school's printing credit system, you could go to a paginated, uh, page that would show your printing history, and if you set the page value in the URL to a value it didn't like it would take it down.

[@s8wc3]

@@burp2019 Speaking of accidental wiping: at my HS they used MS SCCM to manage their boxes, a part of this is a PXE server that deploys Windows images over the network. The server was configured in such a way that upon pressing F12 at boot it would immediately start formatting and redeploying the machine, no image selection or password prompts. It was a really competent and automated process but as it took oh say an hour+ to complete and a class was 45 mins it would be so easy to wreak havoc on a class by preemptively starting a redeploy on every machine in the lab. I of course never did this because i'm not evil (read: a little bitch).

[@WebstersYouTube]

Probably the closest story I have is when me and a group of friends realised that RPG Maker 2003 was portable, and that we could run the EXE from an external drive on the school computers. Tangentially, when Bebo was a thing, my best friend realised that: 1. You got an email notification every time someone posted on your wall / profile / timeline / whatever Bebo called it. 2. If you held down Enter, it would send your message every second. He roped a few of his friends into spending an IT class sitting on my profile, holding Enter on a simple "Hello." I woke up to 50,000 odd new emails in my inbox, and the traffic actually somehow managed to clog up his entire school's network.

[@duon44]

lol we did a similar thing where you could just click the "forgot password" button on some scheduling website a billion times and it would send an email each time, wasn't hard to figure out the email adress an asshole teacher was using so we each spent our time clicking a bunch of times, considered making an autoclicker but honestly just spamming the mouse button yourself was good enough to mess up his inbox haha

[@patant178]

Such a nostalgic story. I did the same with MacBooks that were even more crippled. The notorious 'beach ball of death' was seen more than your mouse pointer. I pulled out the drive, used some HFS software on windows and installed fresh Yosemite over the bloated lion. It was fantastic running downloaded flash games and having a useable laptop. It all ended when the IT admin caught a glimmer of my desktop. Didn't stop me though, my senior year I loaded WaW and Bo1 zombies onto all the CAD desktops in a small non-wiping partition. We played over LAN every day, no one ever figured out, and now I wonder if anyone after us noticed.

[@twee881]

Sounds more like a reward than a punishment. What a strange way for a school principal to assert their authority

[@brandoncullen4189]

When I was in high school, the punishment for missing too many days of school was suspension. They punished missing school by making you miss more school.

[@someidiot4311]

@@brandoncullen4189 lmaowut

[@MasicoreLord]

@@brandoncullen4189 I know when I was in school, when someone got suspended out of school they often were not allowed to make up any assignments for a grade during that period, and of course like usual have their parents or legal guardians called who typically would make that time unpleasant at home too depending on what caused it.

[@brandoncullen4189]

@@MasicoreLord Well, knowing where I'm from, I don't think many kids parents really cared. I looked it up and not too long ago my high school changed the punishment from out-of-school suspension to in-school suspension, so I think they realized kids liked getting suspended lol

[@APLGaming7888]

He got rewarded for making the laptops faster

[@monkeylicker638]

I almost got my laptop taken away in school because I got into the teacher intranet page (they literally left it up in class on the projector and I just copied down the URL) and I found out they just had a spreadsheet with all of the locker combinations so I screwed with a couple of my friends and the teachers found out and got super angry

[@mastercat560]

wow lol

[@GordonFreakman69]

impeccable security

[@blikthepro972]

also known as "i got suspended for wanting more privacy"

[@superpou184]

wait, they really didn't set up a password?

[@monkeylicker638]

@@superpou184 they did after I got in trouble

[@s4ndwichMakeR]

Whoa, this is a stark contrast to the situation on my school in the early 00s when I was a teenager. We (that is a group of three or maybe four guys in the entire school) were way more talented with computers than the majority of the other students (and almost the entirety of the teachers) so, after giving some advice and helping out here and there, we eventually became the school’s de-facto on-site IT admins. We were called upon every time teachers had trouble with their systems and they didn’t want to call the service contractor and wait for someone to come over by car from a town 20 km away. Nonetheless, we also did our fair share of shenanigans, i.e. trying out backdoor trojans or just abusing elevated permissions. But this aspect became boring rather quickly and we lost interest in messing around with something we have kind of a responsibility for. As a bonus: When the older one of the two computer labs was dissolved, the teachers asked me if I want to keep three of the machines (COMPAQ i386 machines with DOS and Win 3.1) for home. That was a nice gesture.

[@avisprimey]

I almost always consider getting to keep a machine at the end of the year a good ending. Emphasis on almost. My brother will get to keep his Chromebook when he graduates in two years (simply because they're phasing out the old models for new ones) and if it wasn't for the fact that Developer Mode was locked down, I offered to help him get custom firmware and install an OS that was actually usable. Unfortunately, as far as my knowledge goes, he's stuck with ChromeOS, and since it's an HP, it'll most likely have some sort of hinge problem by the time he graduates, anyway.

[@judenihal]

My school experience was FAR more advanced than what you went through. I actually cracked everyone's passwords, but I won't go into details on what exactly happened. We did not have our own laptops. Your 8 - 1 story was very interesting. I really do miss those days when we were young and knew how to operate computers more than the school does, but at the same time I was sick of the fact that they had us locked down. Which country did this take place in?

[@ezshroom]

Australia

[@nightmarerex2035]

i know i bricked some computers and would remove the spyeyes software with linux. only got caught becuase stupidly logged in before i bricked it. i did it becuase the computer guy was kinda a dick and looked at everyone as a stupid. and im like whats installing windows pressing a few buttons and smoking a joint?

[@moxxyjumpscare]

when you literally upgrade the school's laptops for free and the principal gets mad:

[@user-dy2yd7rs3t]

if you watched he literally said that no one was mad xd

[@bedrockdoeslitterallyanything]

@@user-dy2yd7rs3tthe principal was fuming

[@TheUltimateRare]

you make it sound like the school didn't have things in place to police what they did. they punished him cause he was avoiding it.

[@carrotwizard3900]

@@user-dy2yd7rs3t If you'd watched you'd know that you're wrong xd

[@MattsFans]

11:43@@carrotwizard3900

[@LeifEricsonYT]

At my school, we weren't allowed to run any downloaded .exe files, but I soon discovered that the installed 7-zip ran with some kind of elevated permissions. It could actually launch exe's from *within* zip files. We ended up doing a Halo PC LAN party in my Architecture class after the final, and played some Minecraft in another class. Surprisingly I never got in trouble for that.

[@trimidsmod6391]

Common 7 zip W

[@superNova5837]

Pretty sure after finals no one really cares

[@just-in-tech]

I noticed that to

[@SloshedMail]

I seen this through my recommended videos and it heavily relates to what I have done during my late middle school and most of my high school years. They were all desktop computer (Windows XP) related too. Thankfully, as I took classes in a lesser-crowded areas, I was never caught as the bypass mastermind and ultimately no one involved was suspended or anything. It was fruitful with all of the Pepsi cans / bottles I got from classmates thanks to tips I gave as an exchange. It's too bad because, as far as I remembered, most schools I partook in had overall major flaws the principal / staff never focus on filling gaps on.

[@horrorhotel1999]

ooh man, this video brought back A LOT of memories - thanks for sharing

[@michealgossar1147]

I'm a hs senior, and every year since 7th grade, within the first month of school I figured out the school wi-fi password, and regardless of their restrictions getting tighter, its actually become easier as the years went on. But needless to say, I taught a bunch of freshmen how to do it, to keep the tradition of the IT department trying to catch kids with the Wi-Fi password, alive.

[@NewRepublicMapper]

I'm College rn but when i was in Secondary School (Junior High in the Philippines) particularly in Grade 9, since i was the IT Guy in the class, my Advisory teacher gave me the password of WiFi with one conditon that i will not share the password of School Admin's WiFi so i can surf the web while lunch break if the Free WiFi provided in my school goes nuts. It's just interesting that i didn't get suspended after that and heck! even my principal is okay with it.

[@michealgossar1147]

@@NewRepublicMapper dude, it's so dependent on the school, some are chill about their internet, and some aren't.

[@masterkamen371]

Our schools all have the same WiFi. You just log in with your school account and you get free WiFi in any school in the country. So even now, years after graduating, I get free WiFi any time I pass a school.

[@haxalicious]

I figured out that there was a pattern for every single school WiFi in the district, which was pretty damn funny.

[@FinnJaeger1337]

We had WEP in highschool and I just got into wardriving so... yeah

[@zmknox]

Your anecdote about Pivot was wild to me because my first exposure to that was _in school_ as part of a digital art class. Was a pretty neat class.

[@zUltraXO]

Same

[@poisonsnivy6439]

Same

[@amongsussyballs]

my first experience with it was the school library computers

[@alexwalker8199]

Thanks for this video because I have been trying and getting close to getting around school things and just realized while watching that I can do a similar thing.

[@supajason]

Great video, loved the story. Reminds me of when my school upgraded its network. I was looking round at the shared drives, and the permissions hadn't been set up correctly. After adding my name and clicking "inherent permissions" I saved and headed to my next lesson. 20 minutes later, I'm pulled out and marched to the IT department and told to enter my password as I'd locked everyone out of the shared user drive, including the administrators account. I had a couple of days off after that and never really understood either, they don't send you any work to do so yeah thanks ha

[@TheDeadError]

If I was an IT teacher and I knew you figured that out, I'd probably keep quiet and try and get you an internship at an IT place after completion of school.

[@Krahfty]

I mean judging by the fact; all the School IT administrator did was reimage the exact same image on the laptops to correct the dual boot and didn't bother putting any further checks and limitations on, speaks to me like a lazy IT admin, doubt he would go out of his way to get the kid a leg up

[@Dearmann]

i will dual boot all of my laptops with 8-1 in 2023 and see if i can get a job (am in highschool)

[@SullySadface]

All I would say is "The problem can be fixed by rebooting and choosing the first option" and then act as if nothing unusual happened because dual booting is not unusual. Probably.

[@foxyolk]

Bruh me rn

[@ReyGGTV]

This whole thing was essentially Matt's version of Breaking Bad. Matt is the Heisenberg of Windows 7 installs

[@mootwo_]

best windows 7 installs in the country, 99.1% pure with an iconic aero glass look

[@oofcloof]

Jesse, we need to dual boot

[@DailyCorvid]

This is a much underrated comparison Rey! "Matt is the Heisenberg of Windows 7 installs" _perfect_ :D

[@CombustOrange]

"I am not in danger, I AM THE DANGER. Someone bricks their computer by installing Windows 8 - 1 wrong and you expect that from me? No. I AM the one who dual-boots."

[@indetermite]

But then, who would've been his Saul Goodman?

[@matthewturner3701]

I have a similar story with the ti-nspire calculators, our older siblings had the ti-89 calculators that let you run custom programs like emulators and stuff, but when the ti-nspire came out you couldn't run custom program or games on it apart from tiny little LUA games like a really simple blackjack or something like that. they forced all the older grades to get a new calculator and it was our first year with a graphing calculator. The school thought they had the problem solved. I remember I was checking every day on forums waiting for some sort of jailbreak and then lo and behold ndless came out and I loaded it up on mine straight away with and emulator and a few games. I showed a few mates at school and then could easily transfer it to them in class because every calculator came with a male to male mini usb cable so you could transfer files directly to another calculator. We'd usually finish our work and then just pretend we hadn't so we didn't get assigned more work and just play on our calculators and the teachers had no idea because they thought it was impossible. Word got around and I was the dealer for everyone in our year level, random people coming up to me all the time, then I started getting message requests from people in other year levels it was crazy. eventually at the end of the year the teachers caught on and I got asked by our math teacher if I knew where it came from and I just said there was some viral youtube video going around and it never came back to me even though I brought it into the school.

[@shanez1215]

I have a theory on the hard drive partition thing. Hard drive speeds aren't static across the disc, they actually vary based on what portion of the disc you are reading from. Think of a hard drive as a set of rings of different sizes all spinning at the same speed. Larger rings have a larger surface area, which means they contain more data. If the rings are all spinning at the same speed, the larger rings have more area (and thus data) passing underneath the write head than the smaller ones. Back then, software was actually written with this in mind, as well as keeping the data as close as possible so the head needed to move as little as possible. Whoever imaged these laptops must have been aware of this. By creating one partition and making it the very first one, they force all software to be written to the fastest rings of the drive. Also, since the rings around the edges have more data, that first half size partition is going to be on less than half the rings. That means the disc head doesn't need to move as much. So you get higher sequential and higher random read/write speeds. Just for funsies and my love of math (and my ADHD diagnosis), I ran some numbers. Since the partition created is the same size as the unallocated one, I split a circle into two rings of the same area (since they're the same capacity). After running some math on that, I found that the radius of ring 1 (r1) is 0.714×r2 This means that if a partition is half of a hard drive, it is only using the outer 28.6% of the rings. Thus your maximum seek time is below 1/3 what it would be on a full drive. Now, since the data on the drive isn't equally distributed, the average seek time decrease is going to be lower than that. I was bored and calculated the ratio between the average seek time when using the full disc and the average seek time when only using the outer 28.6% of it. Since the two have equal area and we're assuming software isn't written to take advantage of this, it's just a weighted average of the two times and ts2 = 0.286ts1. Take all this together and the average seek time when using the full disc is 2.24x the average seek time when only using only half the capacity (outer 28.6%).

[@inqmusician2]

Holy shit, this is actually very interesting. Why it's not liked to the brim?

[@charginginprogresss]

This is what is also known as short stroking. In any case, the real speed increase is lower than that, because yes, the head spins at the same rpm, but the amount of data is greater, so if the head has to read more data at once, it will need additional spins. So in the end short stroking only nets you 20 to 40% more performance (1.2 to 1.4x), not 124% (2.24x)

[@zh9664]

@@charginginprogresss that's alot closer to what i expected, considering a harddrive is alot more complicated then just a spinning disc with area directly equal to data capacity

[@gazzat5]

You clearly have never worked in a school IT department. I can tell you from experience that it's much more likely to be because the imaging software doesn't support resizing partitions. The open source software I used back in the day didn't.

[@dquad]

@@gazzat5 Yep, I can say with near certainty that the reason it was a 160GB partition is because they set up the master copy on a slightly older version of the netbook. I had a EEEPc back in 2010, that was 160GB but otherwise the exact same hardware as the Acer stuff. All of the Intel Atom and DDR2/3 netbooks had functionally identical hardware so using a Windows image from one machine on other machines would work without issues.

[@GillesYT]

I love how you went all the way into making a VM, partitionning the hard drive, setting the date to 2011, installing period-accurate software etc. so you can illustrate the video! If it wasn't for Google's 2022 design i could have believed it :p

[@mrcyborg9216]

That’s how chrome use to look like

[@inqurity]

@ScrappyWriter73 but what does it changes

[@FleaMarketSocialist]

I felt like I was really there!

[@kingtastic_]

imagine if he bought a similar laptop and a capture card

[@qwerty81808]

Reminds me of the time I ARP spoofed my high school’s network the first week after summer and redirected all traffic to a website I made that just asked “How was your break?” and displayed all the responses for everyone to see. Turns out my crappy laptop wasn’t powerful enough to handle an entire district’s traffic, so it ended up just DOSing most people and disabling the internet at large. When they found me, they were *not* pleased. Got suspended for two weeks- worth it

[@nikkiofthevalley]

You could've done much more malicious things than that, but you didn't. Good. Simply did a bit of a prank with some unforseen side effects.

[@qwerty81808]

@@nikkiofthevalley that’s probably why I only got suspended for two weeks! Things could’ve been waaaaay worse for them

[@MegamanEXEv2]

I have a similar story from when I was in HS. I’m a bit older, 2006 is when I was a junior in HS. 802.11g was still relatively new and public/guest Wi-Fi wasn’t widely available places yet. The school started experimenting with letting kids bring laptops, but they couldn’t be on the school Wi-Fi. They only school issued laptops came from a video production class for the school’s student news program. To make a long story short, the WEP (yes this predates WPA as well) key was stored in plain text in the registry. I borrowed a school laptop for 5 minutes, extracted the key, and then for the rest of the year had Wi-Fi on my personal laptop. Started showing off to my friends who also wanted the WEP key, and even a couple cool teachers wanted it for their own personal stuff. Long story short, one of them got caught, which means I got caught too, and I was suspended for 5 days. Thing is, no one was mad at me except the principal. It was the week Kingdom Hearts II came out, and so I spent 5 days chilling and playing video games. It was honestly great. To this day, my WPA passkey is that same WEP key.

[@AlexsYTChannel1]

Man this was fun to hear! 😂 The thing is we have the about same thing in our (german) school, everybody in class gets a laptop and the teacher send out an Email to the parents with the admin password so they can install software if needed. Fun part is: Almost no parents know anythings so pretty much our entire class had admin on the laptop and walking around with like Valorant and stuff.

[@IcySon55]

Back in high school the IT admin was constantly playing whack-a-mole with my friends and I in an attempt to prevent us from downloading games off the internet. We'd find a hole through the blockade and he'd close it. Each time he found us somehow downloading things, we'd get suspended from the computers for a few days. Eventually in grade 12 I took Grade 11 programming in the first semester and Grade 12 programming in the second. Full year of programming had its benefits. Our IT admin ran both classes. He got to know me and I quickly gained more privileges and freedom on the school computers than ever before, becoming student IT support and going around re-imaging computers all over the school usually because they would end up riddled with viruses on a weekly basis. Still remember his name to this day. I'm 37 now. ^_^

[@imsmart.]

I can relate, but it only took me 4 months to become student i.t., and I get free broken laptops almost on a weekly basis!

[@IcySon55]

@@imsmart. IIRC the downloading and suspensions only started in late grade 10. ^_^;

[@creatorbot0056]

That cool

[@JonathanCF0]

@@imsmart. that's awesome. I would love to have a constant supply of broken laptops. Sometimes it only takes two donors to make one working machine.

[@CGKayy]

That's alot of words for I like men

[@clemch97]

Oh boy this reminds me of me at age 13 So, I live in Europe, schools work a bit different here - while we didn't get laptops or anything, we had public computers in the hallway for students to use. With my parents working late, I was at school after classes were over for maybe 3-4 more hours with time to kill. I spent it watching KZbin (which wasn't against the rules, especially after the classes were over) and eventually some random teacher asked for my name and (without telling me) restricted my account for 2 weeks, meaning I couldn't log in anymore. I found out that by rebooting the computer and logging in fast enough, you could simply bypass the restriction - for doing that, I got my account *banned* by another teacher for an entire year, due to, I kid you not, "Hacking" - that landed me in a conversation with our admin, explaining that I did nothing more than pressing a power button. God, I hated our IT

[@szymonbit]

Sucks for you, i'm having a great IT for computers

[@clemch97]

@@szymonbit That happened over 13 years ago lol

[@someoneelse6969]

Our school macs have the same thing. If I log out, log in, then move fast enough there's a short period of time where I can do whatever I want. It's helped me so many times.

[@trisiegt]

Sounds farmiliar.

I‘m glad that we have admins who actually know something about their jobs. No wonder parents often threaten schools for legal action, I‘d do the same for false accusations.

[@shototodoroki1977]

wow this was a such a charming story. part of me was a computer nerd, but ig i wasnt just priveleged enough to have computers as well when i grew up. so i kinda shrugged it off and just put effort into other things besides tinkering computers. however watching your videos made m rekindle my love for them once again. its exactly like a first love, youd never ever forget wjat or how it was :))

[@DeepFriedAlchemy-on4qo]

Stories like this make me feel so inadequate. I never would have thought to do this, never knew how, never would have thought to learn how, and wouldn't know how to learn how.

[@local.interloper]

I got an unauthorized copy of my teacher's program and decompiled it cause I wanted to know what makes it tick. I was kinda scared he might not approve of what I did but I told him what I did anyway to have a clean conscious. Now he loves me.

[@NotAViper]

chad teacher

[@FoxBlocksHere]

lucky bastard

[@mohamadmziri4981]

I actually do have story like this. Our school gave us the option to replace all our books with a tablet and everyone was on board. They got their tablets and lined up at IT to install restrictions. The problem was, after the school day was over, u still couldn't do anything on the tablet so it was basically useless unless for reading which my mature 13yr old self thought was total bs. I started fucking with the tablet and eventually found out restarting it basically killed the restriction software and I could just uninstall it after. These things weren't connected to a networks it was held up on that restriction app. Then I proceeded to pirate Minecraft apks on the thing and played at school and naturally everyone wanted in. I complied and soon everyone was playing cracked Minecraft on wifi direct servers. Inevitably someone got caught but at that point everyone had it so no could rly trace it back to me. Good times.

[@THAT1ZELDAFAN]

Teacher from your school reading this comment: That was you!?!

[@Clone-up2ge]

you'd think someone would have restarted the tablet at some point while testing it?

[@charleshines8523]

@@Clone-up2ge I think it was a factory reset. Some restriction software could even prevent that if it is configured correctly. Google has one such app and it locks the device down so much you can hardly do anything with it. All it needs then is an Apple logo on the back at that point LOL!

[@thebaconator9097]

why wouldn't you just take the tablet and not line up at IT to install the restrictions

[@widojay2048]

Dude I need more of these stories

[@mafia2boy33]

Stories like this is something I live for

[@catg4343]

my most interesting school computer story is the fact that once a kid in my class went on the dominoes website and ordered a pizza to the school. paid for it with his own card and everything, so i don’t really see the issue. he still got a strict talking to though, and the school had to hold an assembly about how we shouldn’t order pizza on the school computers.

[@QuantumScratcher]

Reminds me of when some idiot at my primary school decided to order pizza but over the phone I think

[@hulias3107]

What happened to the pizza?

[@SwampFox178]

@@hulias3107 I wonder the same 😂

[@plumjet0930]

What were the reasons for not ordering pizza on the computers

[@Jonesy1701]

@@plumjet0930 The reason was probably because they can. I did the same thing and got in trouble, shitheads on a power trip.

[@ko0x]

We had classrooms where everyone had his own PC (media school). No restrictions though, youtube etc worked fine. But the teacher had to turn on the internet for the whole room. A lot of the time we where alone in class. One time I found a "turn on internet" shortcut on the teachers PC. I copied it and was able to turn it on even from my student account from that day on. Felt good.

[@_Talik]

that'd piss me off. the amount of times ive just wanted to look something up quickly while doing something would make it tedious to ask for the internet to be turned on every time.

[@LowLevelLemmy]

This is my new favorite KZbinr. This story was amazing. Too bad all your other vids are on Lego Island

[@CRT_YT]

pls upload more stories like this cause this was funny af

[@JoshuaSommerville]

I remember back in high school I was one of the first people I could remember to figure out a basic VPN to go over the schools filters and watch KZbin, it eventually spread to the point that certain teachers would do the same just to show their classes certain educational videos on KZbin.

[@Isaacfess]

Man, such a great High School tech incompetence story. Reminds me of the time I brought in a USB to a computer class and we all played Unreal Tournament, Minecraft and Garry's Mod in the downtime. The teacher joined in too sometimes!

[@maxifire32]

The teacher joined in to play too? What a cool teacher

[@Jonesy1701]

Ahaha that reminds me one time I was playing minesweeper on the school computer and got stuck, the IT admin messaged me the solution through a dialogue box.

[@aidanfoster2354]

Times like that we treasure in our lives

[@dhanifathi2008]

That's one of the best teachers I've ever heard of

[@BlockCheddar]

I learned about proxy software and started downloading it on school computers. I shared this knowledge with my friends and soon everyone wanted to know how to get past the filters. I learned a lot of other stuff, too, such as the fact that the Administrator account on nearly all the computers hadn't been set up, and didn't have a password, so i could install things on that account and they would be installed on all other accounts on that computer. It wasn't long before I was playing Minecraft and watching youtube unrestricted while in class.

[@natjoe4763]

this sounds like something I would do if chromeOS wasn't a pain in the ass and actually had a bios. love this video, always come back to watch this every once in a while.

[@medleysa]

Oh man. Sooooo many memories of “naughty” computer usage in school (this is all safe for work). I was in high school just after the turn of the century. We used DXDIAG’s network tools to chat in computer labs. Kids were constantly finding methods around the filters to get to games websites. The best was my senior year in high school. We all had a rudimentary form of cloud storage. The school gave each student 5 GB of network storage, each their own folder. Someone managed to upload Quake 3 arena on their share, and the school computers were just powerful enough to run it at 600x800. Within the week, hundreds of kids had copies as you could just drag and drop between file shares. Best part is that ALL computers in the high school were networked, so once you grabbed your net stats, you could join LAN games with anyone in the school. This is right when most kids were getting simple phones with text, so setting up a LAN game during computer lab time was easy. Eventually, IT caught on and deleted the game out of file shares. But the poor fools woke a beast. One kid wrote a script that would copy the game from his directory and upload it to ALL student file shares that didn’t have a copy. He named it something innocuous (“English PowerPoint 1” or something similar) and would execute it several times a day. So IT would keep manually deleting the game out of student shares, and it would keep popping up. They could never pin down who was doing it. There were announcements about it, and punishments were threatened, but in a school of 2500+ students, you can keep hundreds of kids after school without word getting out. I’m pretty sure they tried to keep it contained to avoid looking incompetent. Eventually, IT gave up and the whole school enjoyed Quake 3 for the rest of the year. It took maybe 2-3 weeks after the deletions stopped for the novelty to wear off, and everyone moved on to the next thing that was against the rules.

[@What-Kind-Of-Idiot-Is-This]

IT: *deletes Quake 3 * That kid: YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!

[@plasmasupremacy9321]

In my school I put unreal tournament on the network share, and played in the in the library with my friends during lunch. With frantic alt-tabbing whenever the librarian walked past of course (we weren't supposed to game in the library). They also never password protected their BIOS.

[@mihevoct5624]

epik

[@smoothkebab]

Guys, I kinda wrote a dark 9/11 joke on a paper plane and the teacher saw it. WHAT DO I DO? GUYS I NEED HELP IM IN THE USA AND IM SCARED OF GETTING EXPELLED

[@connorconnor1631]

it would be amazing if the english powerpoint 1 kid made a similar script that gave everyone a ping script that would automatically give them quake again when run

[@radicalmacaroni2645]

Man, tech shenanigans in school were hilarious. I remember in 7th grade I got suspended for 6 days and got my laptop outright confiscated because I was able to log in to the school's security cameras and view them live. Basically, I was messing around with an IP scanner on the school's wifi and I found several individual Axis cameras (which, for some reason, showed up on the student network) but I couldn't log in. Then, at some point, I scanned again and found the login page for the ENTIRE DISTRICT'S camera system, meaning the high school, 2 middle schools, and all the elementary schools could be accessed from this one web frontend. Now, they happened to be using Exacqvision software and it said that in the corner of the page. I googled "exacqvision default password" and the very first result told me to use the username "admin" and the password "admin256." I put it in, thinking "surely they can't be that stupid" but, to my surprise, it worked and I was in. The real mistake that got me caught was when I showed it to a few friends and one particular kid caught on, then proceeded to view the cameras directly in front of a teacher. Apparently he snitched on everyone when asked about it, and soon enough my laptop was confiscated and I was suspended (I think 4 or 5 other kids had their laptops taken as well, for using the cameras but also for scripting and web filter circumventing antics.) I'm in 11th grade now and I can use my phone in school and also bring in my own laptop, so trying to cheese the school computers is kind of pointless, but that bit at the end about "a tight-knit community bonding over breaking the rules" really reminded me of those exciting times a few years back. Thanks for telling your story.

[@amegabyte7986]

@@textmeontelegrammattslays0880 Nigerian

[@JeskoDude786]

yes i was like this when i was in second grade. i used to fix the TVs back in school for presentations and stuff, but i actually didint fix anything i just changed the input connection and yes most of the teachers where dumb back in the days

[@verumignis4778]

I found a security vulnerability in the filtering system at my school, surprisingly it was fixed within like a day of me emailing IT. Never got in much trouble for bypassing stuff either (I was on reasonably good terms with the IT staff).

[@casey6556]

The Firefox story reminds me of the time I was accused of “hacking” my elementary school network because I realized their only control on who had access to which programs was what accounts was which logins had shortcuts to open them. I hand-typed the shortcut for Firefox and a few other “teacher only” tools then got caught because I made the mistake of sharing the trick.

[@trisiegt]

I'm in primary (elementary) school, and I do that. I also get accused for modifying the local HTML. I mean, doing that as a 9 year old is fun, but my favourite thing is to remove the s in the HTTP protocol, similar to what @IcySon55 does.

[@altronetic9965]

Those pesky snitches

[@userrrr32]

i got in trouble for opening up inspect during a computer game about mental health (it pretty much made my mental health worse than better) and some kid yelled out to the teacher that i was hacking (since i was known to be the computer guy) and i had to sit beside the teacher and not just that but she would allawys pick up my labtop each second and check every tab and window like if i was some super crazy criminal mastermind

[@stupidfuckingrat]

@@userrrr32reminds me of 5th in general i just open something like windows 93 or 96 'HACKING!!!!1!1!!11!1' i open linux on my asus chromebook? 'HACKING!1!1!!!1!!11!' i open inspect? you guessed it, 'HACKING!1!!1!!11!!!'

[@myanrueller91]

When I was in high school, SSL certificates were just beginning to be a thing. The school’s filter rules hadn’t yet accounted for it. So one of us, I’m not sure if it was me or one of my friends at this point, figured out that adding an ‘s’ to the http route in the browser would bypass the content filter entirely. We used it for innocent things like play games and getting on social media.

[@QuantumScratcher]

... and then someone else must have started watching I guess

[@eDoc2020]

I might have helped people in a similar way. I think also by accessing some websites via IP instead of hostname. It was a while now, I don't really remember.

[@Camobiwon]

Same exact thing at my elementary school, I think the alternative after that was something in Google Translate that allowed you to view an entire site

[@DMAN22yeah]

I remember doing that in my high school days before I had a smartphone, never did much with it but it was a fun trick to show people.

[@a.kjfhkziujsfdgbskjxfyhgfl2332]

im in high school now and we all just use free vpns

[@isoceptic]

12:49 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@arendaindian]

ur voice and accent mixed together are so good

[@bassguitarbill]

My friend got suspended for computer shenanigans in high school: he hosted a proxy that basically everyone used to get around the filters. That wasn't why he got suspended, though! We had elections for class president, and my friend basically announced that if Charlie didn't win the election, he'd take down the proxy. I guess this is where the school drew the line, because they suspended him for a couple of days.

[@haxalicious]

Did a similar thing with a VPN server using my fiber connection, but only shared it with friends bc I knew better than to share it with random ppl (plus, didn't wanna get IP banned). The reason I never got in trouble is that everyone else was just using one of those free VPN apps and so it completely went under the radar 🤣🤣🤣

[@cormacmirshak2988]

The school like: Noooo we are losing our free service. Punish him!

[@The8BitNerd]

This is why you always have to make sure you don’t go making friends with less than common sense intelligent people.

[@inqurity]

@@The8BitNerd Having friends at school is important not just because they are smart, you know

[@damonflavell]

That's hilarious. I have a similarly stupid story from school that got me in deep. One day this huge standalone XP unit appeared in the atrium. One of those boring types with an all-in-one monitor/metal mouse ball and keyboard built directly into the stand. It was running sandbox software that locked it to the school's homepage, but it wasn't an offline HTML file or anything. It had full internet access. Of course there was no way to navigate off the page since all the browser elements were hidden, so no-one really went near the thing. One day I figured out a way to bang on the side of it in just such a way to force it to reboot. When this happened, you just had to knock it again during startup and it would prompt you with the 'Windows XP didn't start correctly' screen and you could just enter safe mode with networking and do whatever you wanted. People started to notice I was leaving it on dumb pages like that one 'lol, limewire' YTMND or the website that just had an infinite loop of the breadfish animation by weebl. It would just blast out of the speakers at full volume and it would take the teachers like 20 minutes to shut it down every time. I was quick, and I never got caught. I had so much fun, made it worth getting to school early just to confuse the hell out of everyone. People would surround the machine just laughing at the teachers trying to take it off. It didn't last. A group of friends figured out it was me. I walked them over at lunch and I showed the entire process, once it was booting into safe mode I realised everyone behind me was all of a sudden very suspiciously quiet and I turned around to see a teacher pulling the most disappointed and mildly angry face I'd ever seen in my entire life. They fully let me do the entire process without saying a word, the snakery was unbelievable. I got walked over to the pastoral office and was told to wait outside while he went in to speak to them. You would only go there if something very serious happens, so as soon as that door closed I mingled in with the crowd that was going back to class from lunch and sat in there for a while until the teacher realised I wasn't supposed to be there. I just apologised, left and walked to my actual class through the outside area and up the back stairs. He never found me. Good times.

[@thetechsavvy0153]

Im still in school but i was often let into the server room and the movie closet to admire the video cassettes and old tech because I like retro technology lol

[@Charmmmmmmmm]

I also went to school in Australia and have a story like this. Most of the school computers had huge limitations on file size you could have on them and where you could store documents…. Except the “shared videos” folder. So we installed on almost every computer in the school copies of Urban Terror and had basically a server full of students LANing UT.

[@rhytz6485]

I have a bunch of these stories, but the most memorable one was when I made a cheating tool for online exams. The answers to these exams were available on the internet, so I put them all in a database, created a tool that would let you drag a crosshair to the Internet Explorer window used to take the test, which would inconspicuously hook it to the window. Then while taking the test what you had to do was highlight the question, press CTRL+C, and it would display the answer in the title bar of the Internet Explorer window. Teachers knew something was up because everyone was suddenly getting 80%+ scores. So one day the teacher told us to put our keyboard behind the monitor, and everyone failed the exam because they could no longer press CTRL+C. Thats the day they introduced a practical test.

[@s8wc3]

Myself and a friend got banned from the computers for an entire term in primary school because we set the Windows theme on a computer to high contrast. The IT staff didn't care, the teachers wanted us punished though, and it was a harsher punishment than the guy that downloaded Line Rider onto a network share got.

[@loganiushere]

wtf

[@TheSliderW]

Could have argued you needed hi comtrast to read properly on screen :"i even wanted to increase the zoom to 300% but was afraid of being punished for beeing different " :( :)

[@Jonesy1701]

Yeah I hated those kind of teachers. My principal was like that. I got suspended for printing off a USB stick, instead of the allocated network drive.

[@Biaanca5036]

LeftAlt+LeftShift+PrntScrn ! I always set one of the display computers at various pawn shops to hicontrast just for fun 😄

[@PixPMusic]

similar story-had admin access on a Win7 laptop a friend had in High School when we all had iPads. I still use the string of random characters as part of my password because I still have it memorized.

[@TimTatarsky]

4:46 I did exactly the same, but eventually I've made golden image of HDD of my perfect clean and tuned window 98 installation. After that, the reinstallations have been going like clockwork.

[@thrasher1462]

Honestly that sounds like and insane degree of strictness lol. My computing teacher is fully aware that ive been pirating games to play at lunch with my friends for years, and he literally encouraged me to get more stuff working.

[@watermocules7735]

Based teacher

[@TristanKingly]

I was banned from being within 1 meter of any of the school computers after I made a website on the school intranet to allow kids to download a registry file to change proxies on the computer to the staff network to get around the schoolsnet filter. Lasted half of year 9 and all of year 10. Had to re enrol a few subjects and the attendance list in the mornings had a reminder to all staff to keep me away from the PCs. Good times.

[@Trakatz]

I know the moment where my IT teacher noticed that my school ipad was jailbroken, and he litterly just asked me if i could jailbrake his ipad too ☠

[@cphotos153]

Great story I love it hope you have more

[@Cracked1ce]

I've got alot of those stories. The schools student PC monitoring software was trash and the process could just be repeatedly killed using a simple batch script. I did that in middle school and got like 2 weeks banned from the computers. Fast forward to sophomore year of highschool and it spread throughout the entire district. Since I had already gotten in trouble, they couldn't just punish me again. They had to buy a new monitoring software, only it was worse, the teacher version was available online and i would screw with my classmates. I also got the school wifi password and turns out it was the same password throughout the entire district. Including the football stadiums. Just remember, education1sfun 😉 I would also routinely bypass the school firewall by SSH tunneling to my home server and poof, all the websites unblocked. Plenty more of those stories too

[@beardalaxy]

oh yeah, the days of the school wi-fi password. it was the same in our district too but this was a decade ago and i didn't use it very often, can't remember it at all xD pretty much everyone knew the password.

[@KyleDavis328]

Schools now have gotten to the point that they (try to) require all devices to be on the wifi, because that way they can be monitored for shit like Yik Yak, when that was a thing.

[@eldelosrobots]

You reminded me of when I was in high school. The school computers had a monitor program so that the teachers would be able to see and control our computers when they wanted (those computers weren’t personal, they were just used for classes and we couldn’t take them). They also had a “freezer” (it was called something like that), which was a different program that would reset the computers to the state they were before we did anything after powering them off, which means everything we did would be erased after it turned off, and when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING, we could even erase the windows folder or system32 and it would restore after rebooting. So me and some of my friends found a way to turn off the monitor program so that we could play games / watch KZbin during the class without being discovered, and then, when some teacher noticed that the computers weren’t showing up in their computer, we would “accidentally” press the power off button and explain that we rebooted the computers by mistake, since when they rebooted the monitor program would be back because of the freezer one. They never discovered us and I still remember that to this day.

[@SN64YT]

That what I would call, getting away scott free. :)

[@ChrisD__]

Damn, they played themselves.

[@LeonBlade]

This is something I definitely would have done if I had a laptop in school, but it wasn't really a thing when I was in school. However, that doesn't mean I didn't do my own fair share of things in the same spirit of this. I remember that every computer in the school would have software that could, at any time, spy on what you were doing. I remember one day in the library I had managed to access the settings for this software. I don't remember exactly what I had done, but I believe it somehow altered the viewer's machine in some way... or, that's at least what I remembered (doesn't really make sense thinking about it today). I had done this on a computer that was actually logged into someone else's account. After making the adjustment, I logged out and then only minutes later someone called the library and they tried to figure out who was messing around. Of course, neither I or anyone admitted to anything, so I didn't get in trouble. That was a pretty harmless incident and ultimately didn't do anything, but I did have more interesting things happen as well over the years. There were plenty of sites that were of course blocked so you couldn't play games. One game that I enjoyed playing at the time was "Line Rider". However, I didn't have any way of playing it. So, I ended up setting up a really basic web server from my home where I hosted the game so I could play it wherever I wanted. Of course, the school didn't have any idea of my home IP address so they didn't block it in any way. There were a few of my friends that actually would download the Halo CE demo and play that on the computers as well during free periods as you could actually play multiplayer on it. Probably the most rebellious thing I did though had to do with a separate school program that I was enrolled in known as BOCES. This was an extended hands-on learning experience you could take in your Jr and Senior years of high school. I had taken a computer programming course, and so I spent half of the day on a computer. The BOCES program was in a completely different school and so of course there were completely different systems in place. The most important part of this being that the computers would reset back to a default image when they were restarted. This means that anything you would download or install on them would be undone the next time you went to class. This meant that if you wanted to save anything, you needed to use your personal drive which was on some network that you have access to when you login with your credentials. One of the first things I did was install Firefox. The class by default was using Internet Explorer, and the teacher had some sort of way of taking over your browser to get you to focus on whatever she was doing. Of course, Firefox didn't have this problem, so I could just continue whatever I was doing uninhibited. I had a portable version of Firefox that I kept in my network drive so that I didn't have to worry about installing it each day. I've always wanted to make games, and I was really into programs like RPG Maker or Game Maker at the time. However, installing these on the school's computer would be challenging. Of course, you could bring in a USB drive... but I also didn't actually have a legit copy of the software. Instead, I had been using a cracked version. The computers of course had very aggressive anti virus software installed. I managed to find a way to kill the av process so I could install Game Maker and then run the crack software to get the full version. Being able to disable the av software basically meant that I could install or do whatever I wanted. Funnily enough, when I came back from winter break one year, I had noticed that the method of disabling the anti virus software was changed. They may have figured out someone was doing it, or maybe they updated their software... not really sure. But it didn't take me long to figure out a new method of disabling it so I could go back to doing whatever I wanted. None of these stories are as interesting as this video, but they were still pretty exciting for me at the time. I would have loved to have a laptop back then, I would have probably installed Ubuntu or something on them as I was into that distro at the time.

[@Connorkelly07]

What’s ironic about the “slows the network down” is that it’s still used to this day used when you are doing something not school related

[@ydboss]

We made an entire minecraft server in the pc of the IT department and they didn't notice it for 2 years. Meanwhile we were just playing at school or at home in this minecraft server with always over 50+ people, and people not from the school started playing too. Until the server became too laggy because the world is big, and the IT department found out what was going on. 7 classes of the school were suspended for 2 months.

[@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow]

it shouldda been called "SchoolSMP" lol

[@ydboss]

@@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow we had 1k+ people before the fun ended

[@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow]

@@ydboss what happened on the server? im interested.

[@ydboss]

@@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow we just got snitched

[@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow]

@@ydboss im talking about the minecraft world it took place on, its sad it got snitched on though.

[@PEK-97]

I have a similar story. At middle school we were given Chromebooks, which were also locked down a lot (They disabled the ability to use any Chrome extension, even removed the No-WiFi dinosaur game) plus internet filtering. We all had our own laptops but those Chromebooks are the only ones allowed at school. I saw a tutorial of how you can enter "developer mode" by pressing a key combination at startup. This then enables you to dual-boot Linux on those Chromebooks, free of all restrictions. Once I managed to do it, I bragged about just like Matt did, then got tonnes of requests by other people. As of how I was found out: those developer-mode chromebooks make SUPER loud beeps at boot which weren't disabled (only possible by flashing firmware, which requires disassembling the machine). Initially I just told my friends to turn their Chromebooks on before lessons, but as the number of modded Chromebooks grew, teachers started noticing blarring beeps in lessons... The funniest thing is, the school IT guys are so incompetent, they can't even reset those Chromebooks. So guess what I had to do in my detention? Restoring the very 18 Chromebooks I've dual-booted! 😂

[@thishandlesucksass]

This story is amazing, and really funny aswell.

[@korewasaid]

Beautiful story matt

[@GriefTheHouse]

Had a similar experience with my secondary school. Made a proxy to bypass their filters for games. Ended up getting spread around like crazy and of course no one took any precaution to hide that I was the one who made it. Within a few weeks, the schools higher-ups found out and were not exactly happy. They couldn't block it either as I was using a ddns to just give it random domain names. When one was blocked, I switched it over to a new one. Basically just was asked to please take it down as there's nothing else they can do to stop it. They even tried getting police involved but they couldn't do anything but also politely ask to have it taken down. I obviously did take it down, but the cool part of it is that the IT support for the school loved it and actually let me help out doing IT support with them after school. Not as a punishment, but just because it's what I liked doing.

[@chrissametrinequartz9389]

I've been trying to do that with my school but it seems its not possible due to how they have the internet connection setup (the only way in and out of the internet through the schools wifi is through a proxy, with what I know has contentkeeper installed on it) I should try to find a way around that, if possible

[@SentryDoesRetro]

ah, yes. the karen solution to something you don't like: call the cops as it must be illegal...

[@paincreatesfame]

One time in high school my district blocked Canvas. Y'know, the website all the teachers used to distribute homework, give class-wide announcements, upload note pages... yeah, that Canvas. Someone figured out how to get around the block to get to their class pages again and they got banned from the school network for two weeks. This poor kid was literally doing the right thing by trying to see his classes but noooo that's too much

[@koopdawhoop.]

a lil while back my brother went to a school that provided chromebooks to the students and even tho he hasnt studied in there for over a year they never asked for it back or anything so he just kept it. this has inspired me to see if i can install linux, not only because it sounds fun and probably miles less locked down than chromeOS but it would be my first linux system which is something that i wanna try out

[@MattIsBored322]

i did something very similar in highschool, but with more software available and shared around, I did all kinds of stupid shit at the time, bringing in external drives to boot off of my own version of windows 7, when a teacher would tri to remotely lock our computer down I would pull out the ethernet port giving me a few seconds before reconnection to turn off wifi and play a game I brought in on a flash drive.(games that I would put on the shared cloud storage so everyone in the school quickly had access to stonehearth, cod 1-3, halo ce, return to castle Wolfenstein, maximum action, dusk, and of course, Minecraft) one time I brought in a copy of remotepc on my flash drive and remoted into my PC at home, playing whatever game I owned at the time until I got caught. i think I was suspended 3 or 4 times over the course of my final year, I guess I never knew when to stop

[@MagicalPhi]

What a story Mark. The most interesting school computer-related thing I ever did was browse TV Tropes on the school computer during one of my computer-based classes because for some reason it wasn't blocked. Actually school laptops weren't even a thing until after I graduated so I never got to taste that sweet 8 - 1 myself.

[@xmlthegreat]

Who the hell is Mark.

[@zeno8402]

my highschool gave us chromebooks so basically we were stuck in a software hell cage for the entire 4 year term

[@kafino]

@@xmlthegreat Hello everybody my name is Markiplier and welcome back to Five Nights At Freddys

[@General12th]

@@kafino Markipiler

[@xmlthegreat]

@@kafino I did not her, I did not.... Oh hi Mark!

[@SKK329]

I ran an underground business to set up school computers with a VPN. Not many people knew what that was and most of them just wanted to play games or watch KZbin. However I never got suspended, teachers themselves were getting me to set up their laptops so they can get on MySpace/Facebook. I remember when we didnt have any filters on our network and getting around the new restrictions they were implementing year after year was exciting to me. In highschool our chemistry teacher had a dozen older computers in his classroom and he would let us play quake on LAN.. Killing him would be hilarious because you'd just hear him raging inside his office, fun times.

[@takipsizad]

LMAO

[@RowanBird779]

Gigachad teacher

[@brandyyn]

that's awesome, i used free chrome extension vpns to bypass our school wifi blocks and then when they blocked the ability to go to the chrome extension store(we couldn't download anything either btw) i just downloaded a vpn on my chrome account at home and then logged in with that account in school and it automatically synced the vpn extension to the browser, i also had a quake extension so i could play quake at school too lol

[@pilotboy]

bro even the teachers wanted the vpn... thats epic

[@aaaauhuhjsjsjsbshshhshs]

Would want him as my teacher ngl

[@arcanealchemist3190]

similar experience with my schooling. except we got the laptops in middle school, and when we graduated all the bloatware was removed. i remember the science teacher (who taught computer literacy) complaining about how long it took to reinstall windows on all of them, but it was still a cool thing he did for us. before graduation, it had been a constant game of cat and mouse getting through the sensors and around the bloatware. but to stop the worst of it, you just had to stop their processes in task manager. teachers had their own good wifi, which was faster due to less traffic and also unfiltered. a friend of mine used one of the school computers (which were all in one units) to record the teacher putting in the wifi password through the reflection of another monitor. he showed me the footage, it was some CSI stuff. couldnt even see the keys clearly, hed spent a few hours estimating until he got the password right. we had access, and the password slowly spread at first, until half the school knew it. the adults found out, of course, but never said anything. just changed the password over the weekend. so we were back to getting around the sensors using sites like elgoog as baby's first vpn or simply finding sites that weren't blacklisted but should have been.

[@scottmorrison3929]

My school's computer lab was well monitored but the computing-based classrooms were not. Networking, Repair, and Keyboarding had a healthy Unreal Tournament scene, complete with schoolwide LAN play. The teachers genuinely didn't care as long as you were doing well in class.