From: happy hippo
Why Would i Want One? For The Simple Fact Of causing Chaos/fixing my attendance record/records In My School…As there is no lock on the door to the main computer for the school.
If i were to gain the password by placing a key logger into a usb drive/Dumping it into the Desired School computer when no one was around in school i could receive the information from my idle computer when i got home, Or am i going about this complacently wrong ? :bart:
yes, that is a crime. (1) Keylogging a computer that you do not have permission to key log, (2) Changing grades and (3) Chaos would probably fall under the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So. I would just take the time that you would have used to keylog the computer to actually learn and improve your grades…
Speaking from experience, you dont want to fuck around with a school's computer system. I cant even count the number of times ive been called down to the principal's office because of stuff like that.
Time for a story. One time… Freshman year me and a friend had heard from another that some guy had a 'hacking' program on his shared drive at school. So we took it upon ourselves to find it and possibly attempt to use it. After about a week we got his password. We login, get the files and logout. Not but an hour later, the IT guy as well as the principal comes in and grabs my friend from the computer class we were in. Knowing that the files these guys were after were on my friends flashdrive and that flashdrive was plugged into the computer and was no longer encrypted i did the only sensible thing… I unplugged it. A few mins later… I get taken out of class. Questions are asked. etc etc. Even the police liaison officer is there. "look dude, all we did was login to someone's account and take a 'hacking' program that doesnt even work." We both get yelled at and such and they threaten police action as well as blame my friend for things we hadnt done in the past. We dont go back to class that day. So we each get on the bus and go home. Later that night around… 5ish. Doorbell rings. Apparently they wanted my computer. at this point im thinking to myself 'crap crap crap!' (it wasnt crap, but you can guess). Quick! throw in a ubuntu live cd and delete the entire C drive! So it finishes deleting shit and eventually they take it. The next day i talk to my friend and he tells me the police came and took his computer too. You know what he did? The same thing. 2 days later i get a call… "Hey Turp, this is Sargent X from the Y county police department. We have been looking at your computer and noticed it doesnt work" or something or idk what he said. Thinking fast i make up some BS story about how i was trying to install linux on it and failed, so thats why it didnt work. They buy it and i dont hear another thing.
So… Its been 7 years now and I have not gotten that computer back.
Whats the moral of the story here? Dont fuck around with this. I cant even imagine what would happen had they got my actual files.