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by marbletiles 1940 days ago
With the *REMOTE, *VIEW and *NOTIFY commands you could also have a huge amount of fun in class (much of it invisible to the teacher).

We also found a privilege escalation endpoint, and were only caught when the network server was upgraded to an Archimedes and the special badging on admin accounts in the GUI gave our MRBIG account away.

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Don’t forget to change *PROT to *PR0T in the teachers !BOOT file.
I vaguely remember editing one of the boot files so it'd start up and display a fake > prompt. This was then used to print out an insult. Also because everyone just hit break you could set it with a *KEY0 command to just run the program and insult them some more. I remember getting in trouble more than exactly what I did - was a long time ago now! :)