The most recent "hack" I've done is to GradeQuick, a software used by schools to digitalize grades, attendances, etc. Teachers using the software input the grades, assignments, etc and GradeQuick does all the behind the scenes calculations.
I'm currently working on an easy to use Java application that will take care of the unlocking/locking process, but it's a relatively simple thing to do by hand.Speaking of school-related hacking, I've gotten control of the highest network privileges that one could get on my network, and have created a backup admin account that I use whenever I need to access people's personal folders or whatever ^_^.Our school allowed full (besides porn of course) access to the web for all teachers. I've recovered a few teachers username/passwords so I've basically got unrestricted access to the interwebs.And that's about it… If you'd like more information about my GradeQuick unlocker, I'll be posting betas and that up at: http://steverolfe.com/blog/ (which is brand new as of a few days ago).
Man, I wish I could pull stuff like this off. Our school's internet is incredibly restricted, that you can barely do anything (including some educational things – isn't that counterproductive?). Also, they monitor a lot of stuff.
I think I know the root password to the server that houses the filters and such, but I don't dare try it since it gets logged.Our school doesn't have a network. It has a giant security hole.
Our school has a bunch of computers attached to each other with copper wires.
Unshielded? That's just ASKING for interference.
Our school uses keyloggers. Though I don't believe they check their logs of every student anyway.
And they use Websense. They got a taste of that shit when it blocked the school's own website, heh.Our school blocks various hardware review sites that don't have ads with the reason "R Rated".
Given that the tech guys are the ones who set the filters, they must be really, really lonely.Our system tech guy is also our weightlifing teacher, our football coach, basketball coach, other sports, etc.
I'm homeschooled mostly, but I have gone to the local HS for CAD. The admins there are very competent, and I can't even right-click on a folder, the file menu is gone, and almost nothing runs except (surprise!) AutoCAD and IE. They also have some sort of proxy that prevents anything but IE from connecting to the net. Command promp, run, and almost all keyboard shortcuts, and typing backslashes in the address bar are all disabled as well.
They also had a monitoring program, but I found that unplugging the network cord would timeout the connection and it wouldn't reconnect until the teacher's end restarted it.I finally found that I could use the Open dialog of Word to get to a network folder and Alt-Drag a shortcut into my personal folder. I also used Notepad to write and save batch files that allowed me to do most of the things that the crippled GUI didn't. I also brought DTask Manager on my thumbdrive, since Windows' Taskman was disabled. I didn't know any particularly leet things to do, but it was fun to poke around the samba servers and such/But yeah, school hacking is fun. [:D]my school uses gradespeed, oddly similar names.
they also probably have the most secure computer network as far as schools go.Bendodge, your school admins have provided a challenge. Almost every Computing Science student at my school wishes to accept.
And we can't kill our monitoring by unplugging the network cables: The towers are in locked boxes.