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  • #16
    One of my classes had a social-engineering game--which imploded halfway through the semester because everyone got paranoid, devious to the point of skirting the school ethics rules, or both. Somewhere along the line--probably due to the demise of the Game--it also turned into pranks in the computer lab (the mini-lab we used was isolated from the main one so if one of the forensics/hacking students unleashed something it wouldn't spread).

    Upon learning of the sandbox and Remote Assistance being enabled, the three students nobody expected to ever work together (and only the professors knew it was us) teamed up and had at it. Everyone was expecting big, obvious network-related exploits so some of what we did was small, annoying, easy to overthink and massively frustrating if you did so. Two students gave up on a collection of changes that could be solved in ten seconds if they just went to Control Panel
    Last edited by Dreamstalker; 03-24-2015, 02:02 PM.
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    • #17
      My dad was configuring a computer for a family friend who was a pig farmer. Well, he downloaded a batch of porcine noises, so every Windows event had its own pig sound
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      • #18
        That reminds me of what we once did at the central computer lab at university. We had a room with computers running a special Unix called SINIX, because the company Siemens had adapted it to those maschines. The login screen displayed the name in ASCII art. We soon discovered that this screen was just a text file.
        As student computer admins we had root access, so of course we changed that to ISNIX (which translates to 'is nothing').

        We somewhat got into trouble, because a Siemens technician wasn't very amused about it. So we got a stern talk-to, the barely supressed grin of our boss spoiled the effect somehow.
        No trees were killed in the posting of this message.

        However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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        • #19
          Quoth taxguykarl View Post
          My dad was configuring a computer for a family friend who was a pig farmer. Well, he downloaded a batch of porcine noises, so every Windows event had its own pig sound
          What would have made that more perfect is if he had made a .wav file of a Dueling Banjos clip and set it to open and close Windows.

          Or if you want to be more annoying, set it to Windows Exclamation event - any time the computer does something crazy, you'll hear those banjos.
          Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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          • #20
            Quoth Kanalah View Post
            I once set the school's computer screen savers to say "Living it up at the Hotel California".

            The teachers had to ask me to change it because they didn't know how to.

            So I changed it to "My IQ test came back negative"
            I once designed a startup screen for a Mac (back in the days of MacOS 6, for what it's worth) that consisted of a white box on a gray background, with this message in the box: "This computer will self-destruct in 10 seconds. Thank you, Apple Computer Co."

            I dropped the file in the correct location on one of my high school's Macs, then shut down the computer and walked away. I came back the next day, and there was an out-of-order sign on it--with the hand-written notation in the bottom-right corner, "Will self-destruct."
            "I often look at every second idiot and think, 'He needs more power.'" --Varric Tethras, Dragon Age II

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            • #21
              Quoth Seanette View Post
              In one call center job I had, our trainer would do things like switch someone's computer to horrific color combination, turn the display upside down, and such as reminders that we needed to lock workstations when away from them.
              I tend to lock my computer when I leave the room, thanks to some little jokes from my classmates. Just snarky notes, random google searches (huntsman spider, Justin Bieber, Capuchin Crypt) or generally screwing with font/icons/screensaver/etc. I suppose I should be happy they don't do anything more serious, they are skilled enough to do it.
              Replace anger management with stupidity management.

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              • #22
                I once built a system for a janitorial service company. on the front end user login screen I set up a "fun little surprise" for a certain user after he attempted to log in.

                I had an ASCII cannon shot slowly go across the screen and "blow up" his name ending with a screen sized BOOM in letters.
                I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                • #23
                  Is it good or bad that I'm actually taking notes on potential pranks to play on some of my colleagues at work?
                  I speak English, L33t, Sarcasm and basic Idiot.

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                  • #24
                    Quoth houdini View Post
                    Is it good or bad that I'm actually taking notes on potential pranks to play on some of my colleagues at work?
                    Heh heh heh.

                    Just remembered two more.

                    This first one won't work anymore, since I haven't seen a computer ship with a floppy drive in years. Anyway, there was an extension for Macs called "MacBarf". Drag your floppy to the Trash to eject it? BARRRRRRRRRF. Fairly loud, too.

                    ...and the second one's for printers. At least as of three or so years ago, it still worked. HP printers have a control language (unimaginatively called "Printer Control Language", or PCL) that allows you to do various useful things, including changing the "ready" message the printer displays when it's ready to print. I ran across some code years ago that would allow you to change it to "Out of Cheese", or one of the types of cheese from the Cheese Shop sketch. (And yes, I used this one. )
                    "I often look at every second idiot and think, 'He needs more power.'" --Varric Tethras, Dragon Age II

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                    • #25
                      One precautionary: Before even considering any of these pranks, be vewwy vewwy certain that there is absolutely nobody in the chain of command who *could* invoke any of the "anti-hacking" laws.

                      Getting stirred for ten years doesn't take the cake...

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