Subj : Re: Beautiful hacks
To   : Phigan
From : esc
Date : Sun Oct 22 2023 21:31:12

 Ph> The mention of computer lab reminds me of a story. This wasn't a hack or
 Ph> anything, but one day a classmate asked me how to spell banana... while
 Ph> he's at the login screen. So, derp.. next time I'm in there I log in as
 Ph> him with that password, and it works. I decided to play a trick on him
 Ph> and rename Paint to Write and Write to Calculator, things like that. He
 Ph> was pretty confused when he finally logged in and had to ask the lab
 Ph> person for help. They were also confused :). "I'm clicking on Write but
 Ph> it's opening Paint." They didn't pay attention to the icons.

Ha! That's great. :P

This actually reminds me of yet another goofy thing I did. A friend and I were overseas working for a company and he spilled a drink all over his laptop and fried it. We had two colleagues coming to join us for some meetings and they brought him a new Macbook. The computer had a sticky note with the local login credentials that my friend was supposed to use until he was able to get back stateside and do the real IT setup. I managed to snap a photo of the sticky note before he took it off the computer. #security lol

So anyway, we're in a room all on the same wifi and I ssh to the computer and login. I write a script that does the following: turn the volume up to 100%, randomly change the voice, and then say in the random voice "F*** you, Sam!". If it wasn't clear, Sam is the name of the guy with the laptop.

I set the script to go off on a cronjob every minute. That...was pretty hilarious. For a guy that liked to joke around a lot, he wasn't really amused. Oh well. I was. :P

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