Re: Re: hacking? security problem? over reacting? or BS?
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Date: 11/06/04
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Date: 6 Nov 2004 12:16:00 -0500
"Dave76" wrote:
> it's their lab, it has to serve all the students and is not
> there just for
> your enjoyment. whether what you did was a security risk or
> not they make
> the rules and you must follow them or be kicked out. consider
> it a lesson
> learned, it gets tighter than that at some businesses where
> even trying to
> get around security or change settings could get you fired.
>
> "Litch" <Litch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A110C22B-51E2-49F8-B3DB-15AC638EC8B6@microsoft.com...
> > Heres the deal, my school uses XP in one of its lab. They
> looked it down
> > tighter then virgin. All we can do is access the programs
> they put on
> their,
> > thats it. Or so they (the tech guys) thought.
> >
> > 3 weeks ago i was sitting in class and I got bored so I
> highlghted an
> icon,
> > pressed controll C, controll V, and made the following
> pattern on the desk
> top
> > X X XXX X
> > X X X X
> > XXX X X
> > X X X
> > X X XXX X (HI! incase you cant see it clearly)
> > Except not so slopy. Any way, the extra icons copied them
> self to EVERY
> > other computer on that certin network. Not the pattern, just
> all those
> extra
> > icons. Now the tech support guys brought it up with the
> school principle
> > saying what i did was "a risk to security" and that if i do
> ANY thing
> wrong
> > on a computer for the rest of the year I ant touch school
> computers for
> the
> > rest of the year! Does any one think that they are over
> reacting? That its
> > their own fault for setting up the network wrong? I dont
> think I did
> anything
> > wrong but they are acting like I installed a worm on the
> computer.
> "ctrl+c"
> > and "ctrl+v" to make the above pattern, and they think im
> some 1337 hacker
> or
> > something. Whats your view on this? Its just icons to a
> desktop they
> thought
> > they put read only on.
> >
> > --
> > Any help i provide you use at your own risk. I am not an
> expert, nor do i
> > pretend to be.
> >
> > http://www.cybamall.com/litch/litch.htm <-- my site. Hope you have a pop
> up
> > blocker for the adds.
Its the sysadmin’s problem really
Its so easy to disable CTRL-C or CTRL-V from the server that they
wouldn’t have this problem ever again.
I’m running FreeBSD and there is NOTHING on my network that doesn’t
happen without me knowing about it .
And what about permissions?
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