![]() Linux and we used to trade books, CDs, and manuals all the time. He was one of the few people I knew who also used I logged into my backdoor account exactly once to verify that it workedĪnd never logged into it again. Trying to duck out of work early and his computer keeps coming up withĪ bunch of last-minute tasks before it can log off. I felt like Peter in Office Space when he’s I made up a name and created a newĪccount following the faculty/staff naming convention and granted itĮvery privilege I could. Even still, I moved onto the next step of creating a backdoorĪccount with admin privileges. Once I was logged in, I was more in excited and nervous thanĪnything. Some point, she left briefly and I quickly logged onto The Man’s The back to notice that I was on an account that didn’t belong to me. Very noticable and I didn’t want the computer lab attendant sitting in Though, as my school set the background of staff accounts to something Opportunity to log into my new staff account. I went to the computer lab during lunch and waited for the The man, huh? I giggled and went to school ready to launch my nextĪttack. It consisted of two three-letter words in all caps: THEMAN Technical staff, he mostly worked on network issues, he must have alot I knew that because, unlike the rest of the In the morning, I was surprised to see how many passwords were cracked.Īmong them, one staff login stuck out at me. When I had a good collection of staff PWL files, I used a tool calledĬain & Abel on my home computer and ran it overnight. I decided that I didn’t care forĪny of the student logins and just discarded them. ![]() Students’ usernames were always in the form of Staff and students was trivial too due to the naming convention in These so-called “PWL files” on a floppy disk. It didn’t take me too long to gather up a fairly large collection of Next option is to show them, right? Right? Think is an obvious, logical opinion and they don’t believe you, your I mean, when you approach someone with what you And to do this with a 4-word response no less!ĭue to my shock and what was apparent lack of maturity, I decided Was, at the time, the longest paper I’ve ever written after barely What?! I couldn’t believe that someone would actually throw away what Technician which he responded “What? This could never happen” The next time I did my community service, I handed my paper to the head Password was stored in the form of a windows “PWL file.” Other words, whenever a user logged in, a hashed version of their That the real issue was that local password caching was enabled. To get a kick out of doing deltree C:\Windows for some reason) and I argued that restrictingĪccess to the local disk was rather pointless as people could simplyĭrop to it during boot (which many students were already doing in order There were probably some other flaws I missed. This allowed you to a) Browse to the C-drive anyway, and b) Open up a command prompt You could still get to a “Run” dialog by opening the task manager and finding it in there.Certain “Save As” and “Open” dialogs still listed the C-drive and was browsable.Open internet explorer and browse to file:///.Create a shortcut on the desktop to C:\.This had its flaws however, and one day I hand-wrote (in English class)Ī 6 page paper detailing the variety of ways even an unskilled personĬould bypass this precaution. This was supposedly because we were supposed to use our network-attached If you went into Explorer, the C:\ volume simply wasn’t listed. One weird thing my school did was restrict access to the local hardĭrive. Traffic and it wasn’t uncommon to hear of students getting into troubleįor looking at, let’s say “questionable content.” My school had reasonable filtering and monitoring in place for web Networked together and part of this same Novell network. The large Microsoft-only network, we were using Novell forĪuthentication and authorization. Windows including Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0. My school’s computer network consisted of a mix of sevaral flavors of Typically involved installing printer drivers, updating software, and The technical staff in the computer labs. So it was natural for me volunteer to do my community service assisting I’ve always been into computers and networking Year 1999 and the year 2000, the exact year I can’t quite remember.Īnother interesting thing to note about my high school was that itĬarried with it an 80-hour community service requirement for graduation. School, network them all together as a single autonomous network, and I went to a high school in a fairly decent school district thatĪpparently had enough money to build several computer labs in each The past month or so, I decided to write about. Maybe half a dozen times in my life, but after telling it a few times in School and got in “a lot of trouble” for it. When I was a freshman or sophomore in high school, I cracked my high
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