Haha, that pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than to just kill it in task manager.
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 7 hours ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
Was that the sticky keys trick? That was a fun one to use to elevate
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
No. What the heck? You can/could have used sticky keys to elevate account access??? What?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, so back in the day, you could replace the accessibility executable that launches when you hit shift 5 times to enable sticky keys, and is launch as a privileged process. Rename it and copy cmd to the old exe name, hit shift 5 times and you now have an admin console.
Still works today, you just have to do it offline if you’re not an admin.