Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
Me and my friends had a lot of fun hacking into our school IT systems in high school. We took security as a challenge, not as a warning.<p>At various points, we had a shared file server for sharing movies and music for the whole school, bypassed the proxy (which also gave us a vastly improved connection speed), had Unreal Tournament 99 on the computers (this was ~2010, but it was one of the only games that would play well), we figured out how to send messages to all computers (using Novell Zenworks or something), and eventually a few of us just had full root access to the entire system. We also had lots of fun with fork bombs, setting peoples desktops to porn (we weren&#x27;t meant to be able to change our desktop but there were workarounds), and the occasional broadcast storm.<p>If only we had known about bitcoin at the time, we&#x27;d have become rich running a mining network on the school computers.<p>Luckily, our school had a very relaxed attitude to our shenanigans. We generally avoided doing anything actively harmful and we also got a few free passes by helping the IT staff when they had problems (they were useless at their job).