[ethbr1]

> Realize that social engineering is thing and I tried to practice it in high school to gain access to computer rooms where the "fancy" computers were.

We realized that door bolts are easy to manually jimmy if not precision-fit.

Thankfully, our computer lab overseer was a hacker at heart, congratulated us, and got the door fixed.

I miss the 90s.

[meifun]

Agreed. I talked my way into the server room several times by different night janitors at my old high school back in 1996. I told them I was there to do maintenance and it wasn't entirely untrue but I was there for running wires and setting up new Macs as part of my class load.

[cestith]

I had a teacher in high school who asked me how secure the data on our lab network was. I asked if I could show her without getting in trouble for knowing how to do something. About fifteen seconds later I asked her if the directory we were looking at had all her tests for the year in it.

It was, and for anything not requiring an essay-style answer it also had the keys. This one really isn’t impressive to any sophisticated user. They removed the shell from the user menu list of programs, but they left the shell-to-DOS functionality enabled in a few programs they left enabled. The shared drive directory structure was straightforward to navigate, and being DOS had no real security once the user was at a prompt.

Many of us would spend our in-class lab time playing Scorched Earth or other games installed into hidden directories the students had created.