[donatj]

I too discovered the wild card net send in high school. I was at an assigned computer in class though and ended up with a stern talk from IT in which they claimed I caused all sorts of network issues. I thought it was hooey at the time but I was pretty sheepish about the whole thing.

I didn’t get in trouble and returned to class.

Later that year I installed VNC server on my friends workstation in the same class and used it to mess with him during class. We had a pretty good laugh. Another friend saw this happen, took the idea with some of his friends and a few days later installed VNC server on a bunch of computers throughout the building. My understanding is they generally caused a bunch of chaos, it was figured out who had done it, and the group were arrested(!). They ended up with community service if I recall.

I very thankfully was not pulled into this at all and found out about the whole thing later.