Middle school student in Florida faces felony hacking charges for displaying an image - Polidicks

My current school is a part of a major district, so they are able to afford these high-tech software and hardware switches that regulated and blocked websites, (Lightspeed Systems). Boy, that system pissed me off so much because almost every website was blocked, even wikipiedia. Since the school upgraded their new computers to Windows 7, they had the old windows XP machines that boot up in XP and use XenDesktop to allow students to login to their accounts on a virtual server which had windows 7. It turns out hitting the "F1" key at the login screen for XenDesktop would display the help dialog, and guess what? There was a link to launch internet explorer. And from there I'd type in c:\ in the address bar to make the computer escape the XenDesktop shell and there I had complete access to windows XP's Admin account(Because it booted in that account and then displayed the shell, and from there their Lightspeed systems assumed I as an admin too, so it had no restrictions :Y It shows how much they overlook this possibility and don't bother setting it to use a regular account.

At my old secondary school they rolled out an update and everyone shared the same desktop/start-menu but they messed up and students had write access to it. I ended up writing a VB program that bounced around a horrific picture of a friend that would duplicate and speedup if the person tried to close it. Few minutes later I realized that we couldn't delete files once placed there and I ended up copying half of my home folder there to play it off as an accident... Didn't get into too much trouble though luckily. I also showed some people netsend - even though users couldn't receive them they would still send messages to * (everyone including admins), some horrific things were sent and some people nearly got suspended. Serves them right though if they were stupid enough to do it when the admins receive them like 'message from xxx'.

My school has 3 wifi networks. A free router that the students can use (everything is blocked except educational websites.), A teacher router, and an admin router (which only Adult content and Game like content (Facepunch) are blocked). Well a student found out the admin router password and passed it around. Now all the students know it. I find it funny how they haven't changed it yet.

I am not even going to bother with telling how bad the security is here and instead share some stories. A friend of mine once installed linux on every computer in the media department. I found a bunch of computers with 2 DVI cables attaching them to the same computer. people thought they needed 2 connectors to attach to the same computer to the same computer. the school gave me and the school "tech squad" a bunch of laptops which were donated. we recieved some really nice newish ones with i7s and dedicated nvidia graphics from a hospital. we were told that those laptops had their hard drives removed to remove all patient confidential information. we opened them up, and found the hard drive there with everything still on it, but the RAM sticks were missing. when we got those laptops working, we told the school that they really werent that good, they werent top of the line "i9" processors. so the school let us keep the laptops for our shared use (I brought windows 10 and installed it on the laptops alongside ubuntu, so now we have super powerful computers entirely free of the schools control). the wifi passwords here were easy to guess. everyone broke into them a few days after the system was put up. now the school set it up so they require us to "log in" to something to use it. all that on the side, I once got in trouble back in middle school for changing the autocorrect settings in word. I was barred from computer use for 2 weeks. what I did was stupid, but it infuriated me when others did the same and nothing happened to them, because they were children of the principal.

a kid at my school managed to log into the schools webserver last week and kept deleting the webpage for the school announcements which resulted in everyone getting a 404 error. he got caught but only got 2 days of suspension :v:. whats even worse is the only reason he got caught is because he was an idiot and went bragging to a librarian, which then told the tech guys at the school. [QUOTE=MissingGlitch;47514590]My school has 3 wifi networks. A free router that the students can use (everything is blocked except educational websites.), A teacher router, and an admin router (which only Adult content and Game like content (Facepunch) are blocked). Well a student found out the admin router password and passed it around. Now all the students know it. I find it funny how they haven't changed it yet.[/QUOTE] my school has everything blocked, but they havent blocked teamviewer. so i just remote into one of my home computers whenever i want to get past all the filters [QUOTE=Jonzky;47514456]I also showed some people netsend - even though users couldn't receive them they would still send messages to * (everyone including admins), some horrific things were sent and some people nearly got suspended. Serves them right though if they were stupid enough to do it when the admins receive them like 'message from xxx'.[/QUOTE] oh god, most of the computers use windows 7 :v: im going to try using msg * tomorrow in one of my classes and see what happens

I remember setting Google Gravity as home page for my classroom's computer and making most of my teachers really confused when opening it, one of them even called the tech support to fix it thinking it was a problem. My old school had a really shitty secure system btw, you could get all the tests files by browsing the computers connected to the school network. One computer could access all the others, everything was shared for some reason. After I told them that their security was shitty they did a huge improvement in the school network security.

A felony is a felony, but he'll probably get a lesser charge and probation. People here saying his life is ruined are overreacting. Especially because even if he's convicted of the full charge, his record will be cleared when he's 21.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47517794]A felony is a felony, but he'll probably get a lesser charge and probation. People here saying his life is ruined are overreacting. Especially because even if he's convicted of the full charge, his record will be cleared when he's 21.[/QUOTE] 21 is a very hard age to start a career, plus any school he applies to will look at that too, and he is ineligible for federal scholarships so no financial aid either, and he will also be unable to apply to any government internships and most companies wouldn't hire him on as an intern either. This will really make his future after highschool bleak

[QUOTE=Sableye;47517879]21 is a very hard age to start a career, plus any school he applies to will look at that too, and he is ineligible for federal scholarships so no financial aid either, and he will also be unable to apply to any government internships and most companies wouldn't hire him on as an intern either. This will really make his future after highschool bleak[/QUOTE] I dropped out of college and I make 95k a year at 27. He'll be fine if he puts his mind to it.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47518036]I dropped out of college and I make 95k a year at 27. He'll be fine if he puts his mind to it.[/QUOTE] Not everyone is going to have the same circumstances as you and it's really ignorant to assume that it's all on will power. There's more to it than that.

[QUOTE=Michael haxz;47518163]Not everyone is going to have the same circumstances as you and it's really ignorant to assume that it's all on will power. There's more to it than that.[/QUOTE] I'm just saying that unless you live in some third world country, you can do what you put your mind to. Fucking up in 8th grade (unless you murder someone or something) will not ruin your chance to have a fulfilling career.

[QUOTE=draugur;47508268]Password was probably admin or teacher. That's how the password work with my local school district anyway. They also just had uncovered routers laying around and our favourite lunch game was to turn off random routers on the hallway ceilings and see what classes would flip shit because "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN." We also did really malicious shit like writing applications to open about a thousand copies of pinball, a large note explaining exactly what the kid in question did to make this happen, and play loud air raid sirens and redirected shortcuts for minecraft to it because kids kept installing minecraft on the computer lab PC's to play during class. This would literally freeze some of the slow dell computers with a giant textbox basically saying "THIS LITTLE FAGGOT WAS TRYING TO PLAY MINECRAFT" (not exact words) for everyone alive to see. A LOT of kids got in trouble for trying to play games in class and (we felt really bad for this) a few even got suspended for "intentionally installing viruses" on the school computers. The school released a giant school wide email (teachers AND students got this) through the district email thing about the "minecraft virus" as well. It was fucking great. See the real genius part was when we wrote into windows start-up to redownload this/reinstall it if it were deleted. The school literally threw away entire computers because of us. I think when that started we toned it down because we realized how stupid they really are.[/QUOTE] My best memory of high school was finding out how to access the C: of any computer on our school network and replacing all the windows startup noises with this sound I made: Warning: loud as fuck [url]https://soundcloud.com/ingmarzergman/a-sound-effect[/url] You could hear people turning on their computers in other buildings.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47508256]Can someone sic a Microsoft audit or two on these idiots? Clearly it's not secure, and claiming it is is just asking for even more trouble. Plus do they even know [I]how[/I] he even got the admin password? If it were just some piece of paper laying around, these charges would be infinitely more stupid.[/QUOTE] If it is like my old school there was a teacher who just said his password

[QUOTE=k2.;47518269]If it is like my old school there was a teacher who just said his password[/QUOTE] Heh, remembers me of one I had. He didn't want to bother installing some program in all the computers, so he just gave everyone an installation account [I]with full admin privileges[/I]. I checked recently and it's still active. Comes in handy to install videogames and change the computer's clock when it resets. Heh. [editline]13th April 2015[/editline] They also have your typical web firewall that sometimes blocks facebook. Porn pages are still allowed, but you won't see facebook. I don't risk it and just remotely connect to my desktop. Pretty sure none of my IT teachers were extremely happy with me doing it, but I was one of the few that got As on that subject, so they didn't bother.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47508658]honestly i'm surprised kids even get through school without severe mental problems. I know when I graduated I still had problems with stress. I stressed over everything because school taught me that if I fucked something up my life was over. Still have that problem.[/QUOTE] Hey that's about where I am now

My school had a programmer who made a program (well a webpage) that could send wav files to the intercom His only way of protecting it against students was using school's local proxy which only ran on Windows for some reason I just brung my USB drive which had a liveCD version of Lubuntu on it and bypassed the proxy (i could also access porn sites with it) I downloaded an hour long wav file of female orgasms which was around ~2 gb or so There was no stop button Good lord They never found who it was

[QUOTE=Sinatra;47529420]My school had a programmer who made a program (well a webpage) that could send wav files to the intercom His only way of protecting it against students was using school's local proxy which only ran on Windows for some reason I just brung my USB drive which had a liveCD version of Lubuntu on it and bypassed the proxy (i could also access porn sites with it) I downloaded an hour long wav file of female orgasms which was around ~2 gb or so There was no stop button Good lord They never found who it was[/QUOTE] that's fucking evil.

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;47510039]In my school, way back when (97-2002) it was piss easy to be able to get into the root for ALL the student folders, simply by going up a few times and be able to access any other students supposedly protected folder. You didn't even have to have their password, you could just access it. It was all well and good, like being able to pull minor pranks on your friends until a couple of arseholes found out how to do it and took it too far and started deleting peoples stuff.[/QUOTE] Same thing at one of my schools. Speaking of, I got in trouble for running Firefox off my flashdrive. They said I was hacking. Only way they found out is because they saw Firefox on my screen. And on another side. It was extremely easy to install programs to the computers at school. Some kid made a hidden folder, and installed CounterStrike, Halo, and Urban Terror in it. I, wanting to contribute installed Unreal Tournament '99, UT2k4 and Doom 3. The hidden folder lasted months until some kid told a teacher. Best of all, they had no way of telling who did what. Before it was deleted, there was over 30 games from other kids. But once that was found out, we just started putting the games on flashdrives and running them off of that.

Back in high school I ended up replacing our local education video library, approximately 60,000 videos with porn :v:. No felony or anything but did get a 6 week suspension, stupid mistakes traced it back to me.

When I was in high school I was blamed for putting a porn wallpaper on every PC in the network. When I was being confronted by my principle I told her straight up "Mam, if I did that I would have put a Jurassic Park wallpaper up." She laughed and thankfully believed me.

Just found out all the local (different for every computer) admin accounts on my school's pc have no password Ideas?

[QUOTE=TeamEnternode;47542402]Just found out all the local admin accounts on my school's pc have no password Ideas?[/QUOTE] set the password to password1 and see how long it takes for them to figure it out [editline]16th April 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Vipes;47535482]Same thing at one of my schools. Speaking of, I got in trouble for running Firefox off my flashdrive. They said I was hacking. Only way they found out is because they saw Firefox on my screen. And on another side. It was extremely easy to install programs to the computers at school. Some kid made a hidden folder, and installed CounterStrike, Halo, and Urban Terror in it. I, wanting to contribute installed Unreal Tournament '99, UT2k4 and Doom 3. The hidden folder lasted months until some kid told a teacher. Best of all, they had no way of telling who did what. Before it was deleted, there was over 30 games from other kids. But once that was found out, we just started putting the games on flashdrives and running them off of that.[/QUOTE] back when kerbal space program was a light game, i ran it off a flash drive at school all the time, i didn't bother to do any work on the crappy, outdated computers there anyways, everytime i would move the documents between the computer lab, the library and my home i'd have to convert them a few times because the lab ran like office 2000, the library office 2003 and my computer ran 2007, so i said fuck it.

we were told in beginning comp sci we couldn't download minecraft "because it used up too much bandwidth" we ignored it and downloaded it anyways, our teacher didn't really care after we had finished our work

[QUOTE=Sableye;47514085]You know this is like the most literal case of public schools ruining someone's life. The only time in school I really felt this happen to me was one year I did a massive biography paper and handed it in a good month and a half before the end of the year and got it back a week before the end of the year and was told I'm going to fail because my citations were formated wrong and its plagerism now instead of a bad paper. I had a teacher arbitrarily using bits out of the student handbook to justify her position and it made my life living hell for 2 weeks as I had to take her all the way up to the principle of the school and have a sit down with two teachers and my parents and the principle one day before the end of the year. She was a vindictive bitch and decided to try to ruin me by withholding my paper for a month after she graded it and there was almost nothing I could do to fix my simple mistake. After that year I think I really stopped giving a fuck about highschool, I stopped doing honors and advanced classes because of that. Highschool teachers can be complete megalomaniacs , but I had plenty of teachers who would have handed that back and told me my citations were wrong and just docked me the points for them.[/QUOTE] My peers and my sister despised writing/language arts classes for that reason. People were weirdly chill with mine though.

[QUOTE=TeamEnternode;47542402]Just found out all the local (different for every computer) admin accounts on my school's pc have no password Ideas?[/QUOTE] Sounds to me like you're soliciting ideas for felonies Lock him up

IT security is a joke in my school too. Every computer in the school is connected to one network (even the computers of the school management) and you can access most of them without credentials. Of course they don't share any interesting folders, but you can still access the printers. And ohh boy, did we exploit that... Also, the printers that have a document scanning capability have this weird feature that puts the scanned documents on a network shared folder. I found things like the whole budget info of the school, some salary info and so on. I would report these things to the management, but I'm afraid I would also receive a punishment for 'hacking'