• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    • Be me.

    • Go to school

    • Everyone else in my class counting on fingers

    • Pull out Abacus

    • Crowd immediately forms

    • “Hey guys! He’s doing multi-variable calculus over here!!!”

    • Smile smugly. Don’t these kids know the abacus has been around for 3000 years?

    • Teacher tells me to stop cheating. Accuses me of black magic

    • Just laugh. Calculate pi to 100 places. People running out of the room screaming and crying.

    • Sent to principle’s office. Principle amazed by my technological expertise. Nominates me for Head Boy.

    • Ministry of Magic sends down delegation to investigate my new kind of wizardry

    • Correctly estimate the future national gross domestic product for the next two quarters

    • Voldemort appears and tries to steal my device

    • Perfectly calculate the circumference of his head. Voldemort banished to the shadow realm for 10,000 years.

    • Everyone cheers

    • Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur

    True story

  • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    3 months ago

    This more or less happened to my friend circa ~2000s. They were technically amazing for our age. When the school “database” was deleted they and a friend were suspended for an entire month, almost expelled.

    Turns out they had warned their teacher that the files were in a public shared folder and anyone could just literally delete them. No backups, these were grades, assignments, etc for dozens of teachers over many years. They were severely punished for trying to disclose a vulnerability essentially and blamed for the whole thing.

        • Wolf314159@startrek.website
          1·
          3 months ago

          If you were in highschool at the time, really the only ethical thing to do for someone in your position is to delete all the files and shine a light on their bad security practices, but don’t say anything about it to anyone. It’s that last bit that always gets you in trouble. Absolute candor is something adults almost never want to hear from children.

          • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Couldn’t you just rename it to something obvious so as to make people think it was gone whilst leaving all the valuable data intact. mv valuableData.whatever valuableData.thiswholethingisvulnerablefixit

        • Gustephan@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          None. Just cheat. It will prepare you for the real world better than pretending to respect the authority of morons.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This happened to a friend of mine in the 90s. He was checking his email with pine. The lady who ran the school computer lab called the terminal “the black program with the blinking thing.”