Abuse of School Webspace? :)

[Thordic]

Haha, my friend got this email today. 20% of the entire student web bandwidth is being used by his account.

Wed Feb 11 2004
Mr. P:

Of the approximately 18,500 accounts for which web.njit.edu serves pages, about 19% of all data is being served from the following URL:

(Removed)

This has contributed to the serious degradation of the performance of web.njit.edu for all other users, as well as for other types of pages served from web.njit.edu.

For this reason, all requests to the above URL are being redirected to a page that states that requests to the above URL have been disabled.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience regarding this matter.

University Computing Systems

[spazzed]

hahahaha, that's hilarious!

What was so special about his page, anyways?

[Thordic]

He just hosts a lot of files.

Someone prolly linked some of his stuff to a forum or something, which would account for the massive traffic.

[Quickling]

One of my friends did something similiar at my college by running a porn server between midnight and 6am. It accounted for 40% of the nighttime traffic. Funny as hell.

[Automaggin2]

At my high school, the network admin disabled the command prompt, but, the geek that I am, found a way to get around it and screw around with the schools network. I sent messages to every single computer on the schools network. I wrote "Lenape (name of high school) SUCKS". All of the sudden all of the librarians and teachers started going crazy.

netsend *


I also sent massive files over the schools network to a bunch of different computers, slowing the hell out of it.

[land hurricane]

Originally posted by Automaggin2
At my high school, the network admin disabled the command prompt, but, the geek that I am, found a way to get around it and screw around with the schools network. I sent messages to every single computer on the schools network. I wrote "Lenape (name of high school) SUCKS". All of the sudden all of the librarians and teachers started going crazy.

netsend *


I also sent massive files over the schools network to a bunch of different computers, slowing the hell out of it.

Yeah, I mess around with that too. But do you know how to change your name or alais.. because on my schools systems it says somethnig like "this message was sent from (whatever the computer name is) at (whatever the date is)". And the computer name has the room number and computer number, so they would know it ws me. But i've heard there was a way to change that name to like "Mr. X" or whatever you wanted.. do you know the way?

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by land hurricane


Yeah, I mess around with that too. But do you know how to change your name or alais.. because on my schools systems it says somethnig like "this message was sent from (whatever the computer name is) at (whatever the date is)". And the computer name has the room number and computer number, so they would know it ws me. But i've heard there was a way to change that name to like "Mr. X" or whatever you wanted.. do you know the way?

Yea i know. I got caught and they threatened to suspend me for 10 days My schools discipline polices are ridiculous.

I am still trying to figure it out, I'll mess around with it tommorow

[animal]

It'd be easier to just write a program or download one that could format messenger service messages.

[e mag]

Originally posted by land hurricane


Yeah, I mess around with that too. But do you know how to change your name or alais.. because on my schools systems it says somethnig like "this message was sent from (whatever the computer name is) at (whatever the date is)". And the computer name has the room number and computer number, so they would know it ws me. But i've heard there was a way to change that name to like "Mr. X" or whatever you wanted.. do you know the way?

My school had it that way too, doesn't it just use the computer name? I'm not sure but I think if you just go to system properties (winkey+pause break) you can change your computer name and the netmessage window will say it was sent from whatever you change it to.

[BobTheCow]

For us it says all that, PLUS your user name that you're logged in as... so, there's no easy way around it. My friend *accidentally* sent a message that said "test" to all the computers in the school, and within 90 seconds there was an administrator knocking on the door. Somebody else I know did the same thing, but managed to crash the entire network... get suspended for a day.

[Fixion]

Originally posted by Automaggin2
At my high school, the network admin disabled the command prompt, but, the geek that I am, found a way to get around it and screw around with the schools network. I sent messages to every single computer on the schools network. I wrote "Lenape (name of high school) SUCKS". All of the sudden all of the librarians and teachers started going crazy.

netsend *


I also sent massive files over the schools network to a bunch of different computers, slowing the hell out of it.

OOOOOOO, we got oursleves a 1337 h4x02!!!!!1111

When (more like if) I use widnows I disable the damn winblows messanger service. The only thing I use windows for is the games I can't run (well enough with wine) in linux.