[noir_lord]

I had to personally apologise to the IT department because I sent a message from 'God' saying "I saw what you did last night" to the entire network (long time ago but it was Novell something) by mistake (was aiming to send it to just the one computer lab).

They thought it was hilarious and that was the end of the matter.

[goda90]

Select students in my high school had Novell emails, which led to interesting interactions during the tiny AP CS class. We figured out that you could edit the from field and with enough spaces the email address would overflow and be hidden from view. So after some girl broke the no mass email rule, I sent her an email as "Administrator" saying that she'd be expelled for sending a mass email. Luckily I only has to apologize.

[godzillabrennus]

I got suspended for teaching kids to use Winpopup in Highschool...

[Terr_]

I showed my classmates winpopup for a boring computer class, but then later we had a test, and they were using it to cheat.

So I broadcast a message (with spoofed username) pretending to be there IT director, telling them to cut it out. It always helps to have an extra secret :p

[grkvlt]

These stories are all too familiar, probably to many here of a certain age.

I actually got expelled from my school (in Scotland) for installing the 'MacinTalk' network chat software on our Business Studies AppleTalk network with about ten Mac Classics. The time I only got suspended was for using Prestel via the Computer department's (only) modem, after shoulder-surfing the password for the school account when a teacher demonstrated 'the future of computers' to us. The look of uncomprehending fear on the teacher's face as they ran into the computer lab after being told I was using the modem was priceless. I eventually had to go to an entirely different school to study for my Higher Computing, because none of the teachers at my school were competent enough to teach it.

[noir_lord]

When I was been 'taught' VB (shudder) the lecturer had 'Teach Yourself VB in 24 hours' on his desk, I used to go in before hand to make sure he was up to speed on what he'd be teaching.

Lovely guy and a good teacher just dumped into teaching something he wasn't remotely qualified to teach.

It was an interesting situation though since it taught me the value of been an autodidact early.

[predakanga]

Similar story here - mine was in the days of Windows 9x; everyone knew about "net send", but few bothered to look into the other options.

I decided to poke at it and see what "/forest" did, ended up messaging the entire network with a harmless "Hello world".

It's shocking to see the ordeal that mmccaff went through; for me it was just a couple of very confused teachers and an IT department that wanted to keep an eye on the troublemaker.

[13of40]

Sometime in the mid 90s (must have been 1997 since there were web browsers) I was taking a college prep class at a community college, and I read about a thing that became popularly known as "the ping of death". Long story short, the school had all of its internet traffic running through a single, rather ancient NAT that locked up if you pinged it with a 64k icmp packet...

[merb]

shutdown /i ... :)