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I once got detention for "hacking." All the school computers were on the same network, so if you opened Computer Management, then selected a different computer on the network, you could... get this... eject the disc drive on unsuspecting people. They'd be on their computer, 15 feet away, and then I'd click a button and their disc drive would eject, momentarily confusing them.

Librarian saw me using the "My Computer" folder to get to Computer Management, apparently that was proof enough. How is using available folders on the computer "hacking"? I have no idea, didn't seem to be relevant.

I was once fired from a helpdesk job because a security guy overheard me summarizing a Kevin Mitnick book to a coworker, thought I was planing to do what I was explaining and notified my supervisor, who informed his supervisor and so on until it went all the way to the fucking CEO and back.

I was summoned to HR the next day and I had to explain in writing to 5 different people that they're all idiots and show them the book I was referring to.

I applied for a different position in the same company 3 months later and was hired for another 8 months.

Yea, that happened.

What linuix hacker uses ".exe"? Should compile from source. That will get the girls in class attention.

I got in "trouble" for visiting hackthissite as a freshman in high school and junior year I got an NSA pamphlet specifically sent to my guidance counselor for me.

i didn't get as far as sql injections. Maybe they thought I was good at covering my tracks.

Yeah, a lot of people don’t know shit about computers. When I was working as a commissioning engineer, we would ping devices after using bootp to make sure the setup was successful. I got so many comments from electricians, millwrights and plant personnel just for using command prompt. “Oh wow you’re hacking!” Or “You have logged in to the matrix!” I’m sure sometimes they were just joking but most of them truly believed I was doing some high level stuff.

I once was reported by the high school programming class for "plagiarism" because I used visual studio's auto-generated template to start my homework.

The teacher reported it to my parents, he wanted to make me fail. I was also reported for creating a "hidden" chat app that I shared with my friends. (It didn't show in the taskbar.)

Next Christmas, they bought me a visual studio license at home!

I believe this to a degree based on my personal experiences with being thought of as either a brilliant wizard or evil hacker for unimpressive things. It even would happen at different jobs until my current job where my boss is the opposite. he thinks that anything and everything is possible and should be "easy" despite being technically illiterate. His new AI obsession has made it so much worse. I actually miss the super annoying "OMG you can do that? You're a wizard/hacker/demigod!" days.

This reminds me of when I was in middle school and did a Scratch game dev class. I decided to use multiplication instead of simple addition and subtraction to make my character jump because the latter looks horrible and janky. My teacher accused me of cheating the moment I pressed the space button. Even after I explained how it worked to her she still didn't believe me. I still got a good grade but after that she started watching me like a hawk; I assume she thought she would catch me cheating but never did since I was never cheating.

apt install -y hollywood && hollywood

there was an art to boot disks. getting one just right, so you could load that one program and nothing else. I kinda miss that. not really, but kinda. kids these days will never know. now that was hacking.

We've come a long way since burning 'witches' at the stake. /s

This was before my first boxed Linux purchase of Mandrake, but learned to dual boot on the home’s 300 ton HP w/ 2gb hdd (98SE, I think) and was fucking around with alternate shells like Afterstep, GeoShell, bbox, LiteStep, etc.

Learned about doing away with the standard ui completely and putting all the menus into right click, so there were times I’d walk away leaving just a wallpaper and cursor. Family couldn’t figure how to do anything, so I pretended I’d hit some key combo to bring menus which just baffled the fuck out of them, got labeled a “hacker”.

Very first os was, as a 7 yo, DOS 2.0 on my grandfather’s dual-floppy IBM (to keep a text file of my baseball cards), and a friend of the family who worked at JHU/APL in video production would let me mess around with the 3.11 boxes at the Kossiakoff center.

my friend and I used to use net send to message each other on the school network (this is back in the 90s), then someone worked out you could send to all PCs on the network, sysadmins were not happy

I've worked IT in schools and the hoops kids have to jump through to do similar stuff on our networks is so much harder