| When I was in college I realized that they hadn't disabled net send with wildcards on the CS computer network. We all had individual logins. One day I walk into my lab class and see that a poor soul forgot to logout of his session. I'm sitting with my lab group and explain this "net send *" macro that would send a message to every single account on the system. Another person in my group says "I'll do it." He types it in and presses enter. We log out of the account, then log into one of our accounts, see the message, laugh and move on. The next week, I get to my lab and this kid walks in and says to my lab group member sitting in front of the computer "Can I speak to you outside?" He goes outside and we think nothing of it, but then I hear my lab partner outside the door say in a raised tone "Look, I have no idea what you're talking about! Goodbye!" and he comes storming back in. This lab partner was absent the week before and didn't know what had transpired. We ask, "What did that guy want?" He says, "Some BS about how he thinks I sent a message through his account to everyone on the network because he forgot to logout last week and now he's in trouble with the CS department because they think he did it." Our jaws dropped and I think if he had spoken to anyone else in the group we probably would have laughed and he would have known it was us right away. I still wonder how much trouble he got in on our behalf for embarrassing the CS IT department. Didn't seem like that big a deal to me. |