Oh I loved the days of circumventing early school IT systems. I remember we discovered that we could right click on something in the start menu and get into a shared network folder, we put Halo in it and basically the whole class played matches together but alt-tabbed when a teacher came by.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a joke how easy some of those were to bypass. I still remember when the lab installed some nanny cam app so they could make sure kids weren’t playing games or looking at shit they shouldn’t. The app was so bad that I could just open tak manager and kill the nanny cam software.
The librarians loved me, so I don’t think they cared enough to say anything, even when they went after kids near me doing similar shit.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haha, that pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than to just kill it in task manager.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah… Even back then I was amazed at how little effort it took to bypass. But that was in the early 00s, and basic troubleshooting like opening task manager was considered black magic (just like opening a terminal is today to most people)
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I remember figuring out how to make my account an admin account in like Windows 2k through some obscure setting that was still available. We stared with weird flash games in the library, and eventually played unreal tournament.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Was that the sticky keys trick? That was a fun one to use to elevate
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
No. What the heck? You can/could have used sticky keys to elevate account access??? What?