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
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

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