When I was in middle school, my science teacher would routinely log in to his computer while projecting it onto the white board.
So… I know his login username, and how many characters the password is.
Hrm… what could his password be?
Look at his desk.
Slogan for his alma mater.
Exact same number of characters if you remove the space.
Works the first fucking time.
The whole school has a system wide account management log in, so everyone has their own usr/pw and can log into any computer… so I didn’t even have to be on his actual computer.
Within 5 minutes I realized I had complete access to change not only every single grade for every single assignment and test for every student in all of his classes…
… but literally all grades, for everything, for everyone in the school.
Either he was set up as an admin of the grade management system, or every single teacher was just given full access and operated on the honor system.
I didn’t actually change anything though, I was too afraid I would be caught.
In retrospect, I was probably correct about that. They could look at the time the log in occurred in the computer lab and then just narrow it down to what class was using it at the time, and then question every kid individually, and I probably would have cracked lol, I was quite bashful and bad at lying.
When I was in middle school, my science teacher would routinely log in to his computer while projecting it onto the white board.
So… I know his login username, and how many characters the password is.
Hrm… what could his password be?
Look at his desk.
Slogan for his alma mater.
Exact same number of characters if you remove the space.
Works the first fucking time.
The whole school has a system wide account management log in, so everyone has their own usr/pw and can log into any computer… so I didn’t even have to be on his actual computer.
Within 5 minutes I realized I had complete access to change not only every single grade for every single assignment and test for every student in all of his classes…
… but literally all grades, for everything, for everyone in the school.
Either he was set up as an admin of the grade management system, or every single teacher was just given full access and operated on the honor system.
I didn’t actually change anything though, I was too afraid I would be caught.
In retrospect, I was probably correct about that. They could look at the time the log in occurred in the computer lab and then just narrow it down to what class was using it at the time, and then question every kid individually, and I probably would have cracked lol, I was quite bashful and bad at lying.
You are overestimating 90’s schools infosec.
The videogames were right. The password is always written somewhere in the room
A few weeks ago that is what an Italian kid did. He git caught - but because he also hacked servers of port and maritime control authorities