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by namuol 1274 days ago
This exact thing happened with me and my friends in high school, except the random kid who eagerly tried the wildcard net send command chose to write “hey you b**es”, got suspended a few days later, and the IT department never figured out how to disable it (or chose not to).

Later we’d find ourselves logging in to machines remotely to do similar things in order to make it harder to trace. We did this with ordinary windows tools.

We even disguised that we were inside a terminal by creating shortcuts to the command prompt that changed the font, colors, and even the application icon to make it look like we were just running notepad at a glance.

Exactly what we did with this devious set of tools I’m not at liberty to speak of ;)