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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The first hack I ever did was to remove the security add-on my middle school put on our macs so we couldn’t play games. The attack vector was the file APIs in VBScript executed via a word doc. Fun times!

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you got hardware that wasn't designed for schools.

[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think there were any computers designed for K-12 schools at the time. They were PowerMacs, and later, iMacs. They weren’t even set up for multi-user; they were just unlocked all the time.