Statute Of Limitations

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Last year as a sophomore i did a computer prank. Does anyone know how long I have to wait before I can tell our network admin what I did without getting in trouble, I live in PA.



It was a great thing if your interested in what/how i did it, i'll share privatly



[ 10-06-2002: Message edited by: ast3r3x ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    The best thing you can do is NEVER mention it again. EVER. Be happy you got away with it. Even if a legal statute ran out that wouldn't stop your school or employer from taking action against you. You don't need to get sued to suffer, you can get fired and/or expelled. DO NOT TELL YOUR NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR OR ANYONE ELSE.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    I know somebody (not naming names) on this very board goes to the university near me and populated a very clever Applescript onto over 300 macs. Now as the person in charge of FIXING them I was kinda peeved. I have sinced tracked them down and yes, if you are reading this, we have forgiven you. I would advise you to NOT do this again. (at least not to ALL of them). If you need to get around foolproof simply stick with the old way you were doing it in '99. It will still work and it will keep us from having to expell you. Thx.





    PS, I-er... some guy I once new setup a really clever printer trick with all the AppleTalk printers on campus. It had to do with this naked picture of an admin and several personal emails. Thing is... there is no central print server so those mysterious print jobs which spawned hundreds of printouts each night were really annoying. And the HP technician worked on those suckers for weeks!



    PPS, Oh yah, and that little VNC server that got tagged onto the PC image file for all the new comps. on campus was a trip also. Sooo soo much fun spying on hundreds of teachers and getting access to tests etc by remote! (never saw it coming and they STILL haven't found them all!)



    Disclaimer. None of the above is true. It's all made up, I had nothing to do with that, I was not there, it didn't happen, what are you talking about? Can I call my lawyer now?
  • Reply 3 of 10
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
  • Reply 4 of 10
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>Last year as a sophomore i did a computer prank. Does anyone know how long I have to wait before I can tell our network admin what I did without getting in trouble, I live in PA.



    It was a great thing if your interested in what/how i did it, i'll share privatly



    [ 10-06-2002: Message edited by: ast3r3x ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    it must have been a very interesting prank if you are concerned about legal action. Depending on what country you live in there are different time spans that one can take civil action. I cant help you as I live in Australia, but I would say you hava another 3 years or so before you can open your mouth!
  • Reply 5 of 10
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [quote]Originally posted by trevorM:

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    it must have been a very interesting prank if you are concerned about legal action. Depending on what country you live in there are different time spans that one can take civil action. I cant help you as I live in Australia, but I would say you hava another 3 years or so before you can open your mouth!</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Not horrible, but my school is gay and would love to give it to me from behind with expulsion or lawsuit
  • Reply 6 of 10
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    When I was in high school, I basically fixed up most of the Macs when they broke down. When I was a senior, the school hired a systems administrator who decided he would replace all of the Macs in the school with PCs. He then went out and bought tons of Pentium based PCs for $2000 from his friend and took a major kickback since the P3s were already out at this point.



    No one called his bluff except me and he was really pissed at me at this point, especially since he knew next to nothing about the Macs and I stopped fixing them for the most part. The best part was that the only time I did fix a computer, it would be after he had looked at it for about 30 minutes and declared it 'dead', then I would go and look at it for a minute or two and start it up fine again. He got really angry at me for 'showing him up'.



    I helped teach a C++ programming class and also was a newspaper and yearbook editor. I helped with the school website and also published the school newsletters and papers online as well.



    I had tons of access to different stuff through our servers (which were DP Power Mac 9600s). One day, he went to the other computer teacher and told him that I had 'hacked' the server and given myself complete admin access. He said that it included access to teacher's personal files such as quizzes, tests, worksheets, and their answers.



    Of course I had never done anything wrong and although I knew I had access to certain shares, I hadn't done anything inappropriate. When questioned why I had access to a 'teacher's folder', I told them that I had been given limited access as a C++ teaching assistant (which I had).



    The thing that saved me was that the room the servers were located was physically locked and the only few times I had ever been in the room, a computer teacher had been watching over me with a careful eye. The guy eventually admitted to me (in private), that he had done this purposefully to prove that he ran the computer systems and that I should try and stop showing him up. I didn't have to show him up, though, as teachers continued to seek me out when they had problems with their machines, realizing that he had no idea how to fix them.



    Trust me when I say it's not worth it to get these guys even a little angry at you. I hate to say it, but there is a reason that they are working at a public school instead of an IT department. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    Just tell us all the prank (via PM if you feel you need to remain anonymous) and leave it at that. Just know that you played a cool joke.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    i'd like to hear it as well...
  • Reply 8 of 10
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    I didn't do it, but I'm a suspect in wilding spree last year. Someone reset all the passwords on all the school's computer systems, and the idiot running them thinks I did it. She can't prove anything, as all the log files were also deleted. She had/has the nerve to stand behind me whenever I go in there.



    OTOH, I did see the guy who did it, but the look on her the admin's face when she found out she couldn't prove anything was too good to pass up.



    (PS, I don't know the guy's name, except that he's short)



    I'd like to hear about the prank too.



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  • Reply 9 of 10
    jccbinjccbin Posts: 476member
    Hey! I'm short ... but never had a computer class in my life - unless you count that 101 "this is how you use dBase, Lotus 1,2,3, and WordPerfectDOS."



    I thought a hack was someone who wrote for a newspaper....



    :-)
  • Reply 10 of 10
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Disclaimer: This is a filthy lie, this never happened, I dont exist, the person who did this isn't me....i deny all...how much to lawyers cost?



    This story was told in the 1st person for effect



    Our school was run on a windows network. You could log onto any computer as a generic computer name. My friend and I created a program that would automatically run the when you logged in to the network with this account (this was done regularly by people in the library) So I went during a study hall and planted the files needed, then i stay logged in and left. 2 period later I was told that it ran and the Network Administrators were "walking with great speed" to where the messages where sent from.



    The Program ran, send bout 8 messages to each computer...it was the entire hacker manifesto. It deleted itself after it ran, so they had no idea who did it...or how



    Thats over 100 computers that got that...and the way i hear it is that even the elementary schools got it.



    You have no idea how fun this was!



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