Comment on Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
When I was frustrated by very early internet filters being turned on at school, I installed keyloggers and distributed the admin password to disable the filters altogether. Good times, probably much harder to do that now.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Not too much more difficult. I did exactly that about a decade ago.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Antivirus didn’t really exist in my script kiddie days in the very early 00s. It was awesome to put Sub7 on someone’s PC, fire up their webcam, pop the matrix screensaver type hack on, chat to them, then open their CD drive. Freaked some friends out really good that way.
After they would log off, I’d pull their AIM credentials and hop on their screen name , message one of their buddies, and ask them to “test out this screensaver I just made”. Rinse and repeat… I had a dozen infected people across the country. Never did anything particularly malicious but man it was fun.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I did nuke someone’s HDD with a .bat script called “hard drive killer pro”, that was malicious. That’s the only one I regret doing in retrospect.