Skull Rant - Students Wanting To Mess Around on Property That Doesn't Belong to Them

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I am back with another rant.

The reason why I am posting this rant is due to the fact that I keep seeing students wanting to install, change settings, ETC. This rant is directed at the people/students that are thinking and/or trying to do that...

I am personally getting tired of seeing threads about installing unwanted software on school, government or someone elses computer. There is a reason why it shouldn't be done. I will admit, I am guilty of doing that, but I was only using a different Office Suite and Web Browser running off my flash drive.

The reason why people shouldn't do mentioned above, is because it's plain stupid. I always asked for permission to do something on someone elses computer and/or network. I respect their reasoning granted I know some are absurd. That's not the point though. Students in Middle School or High School are under a form of contract stating that they are only to use the school computers for ONLY educational PURPOSES.

The students who think they can get away with it aren't going to get away with it that easily. Many schools have software and hardware in the network that can monitor everything you are doing, which means they would have proof to show to the parents, police or FBI if it became necessary. Seriously, the FBI can get involved as well pending on the situation.

Proof of that. There was a student from Watkins Glen High School. He had an idea of trying to DDOS the Watkins Glen School District. He did it from his home, thinking he could get away with it. Well I found this funny. When he DDOSed the School, it took the entire BOCES network down with over 20,000 computers not able to be used. My school was affected as well, which my school was Horseheads High School. The High Schools in the Southern Tier of New York State are interlinked with the GST BOCES network; needless to say the FBI got involved with this, as well as the Watkins Glen Police Department. They were able to track the student within a few hours after. The student was put under charged and arrested, and his parents were ordered to pay for all the damages. Needless to say, the student was sentenced to about 5+ years in jail. Need I say more? Nope.

Installing games on a school computer is not a smart idea. The worse that can happen there is you can either get detention or suspended, oh and your computer privileges taken away. That happened to a couple of my classmates.

So if you are even think about trying any of that bullshitt, don't you will jeopardize your education. I will state some different reasons why not to. 

If you get caught doing something that is made to harm school property and it gets put on your transcript.

  1. Won't be hired at a job
  2. Won't get accepted into high end colleges
  3. Get expelled from school

That is only the short list. Don't even TRY ANYTHING OF THE SORT! Such as simply installing a game, deleting system32 using linux on a flash drive or DDOSing a school network, if you did any of these... you are very stupid and ignorant. If you want/need to do any of those things, do it on your own equipment and internet connection/ Have the initiative of getting your work done, staying focused on your studies, not do anything stupid and work hard during school, you will have a clean transcript which employers and colleges to look at. END RANT!

One more thing, if you even want to know how to bypass passwords, hack into school computers or anything of that sort, Google is where you need to be. Not here on TekSyndicate. If I see anymore threads like installing LoL on a school computer or any of that sort, I will refer you to this blog with another rant. I'm getting sick of seeing threads like that, it pisses me the fuck right off...

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You're upset. But you don't exactly always understand the situation. For example at my school the only computer classes we have are Microsoft cert classes: basically a waste of time. It took me 2 months to get every cert. So everyday I play games and my teacher doesn't care. High school is not as serious for everyone as it's made out to be. Btw my school board is kinda stupid. They bought i5/Radeon 7550 workstations for word processing lol.

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 I play games and my teacher doesn't care

That's different than doing it on Computers you're being loaned, or getting around the security on PCs that dont belong to you, or, like in the past, booting into linux and deleting System 32, and whatnot.

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Deleting system32 on our computers wouldn't even do anything. They have Deep Freeze installed.

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I completely agree with you skull.  Its not your computer, dont fuck with it. :)

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I nearly got expelled the other week, for something rather stupid. I wrote a letter to the school complaining about their use of filters on the network. I cited many instances of it blocking useful, educational content and made a lot of good points. However, they picked out two words from the whole thing, the words "silly people," and decided to use this as reason to debunk the argument and nearly expel me.

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Jeez, that's pretty rough.

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I'm with you, but 5+ years for taking 20k computers down? Crazy, if you ask me. But i don't know what the BOCES network is. If others died because of this it would be okay i think.

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What would happened if a school administrator caught you playing games?

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Boces was a TEC School, but they worked with all the schools in the region. So students can get more specialized for the career they wanted to go into. They also offered college credit to

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I'm honestly not surprised with 5+ years for 20,000 computers, especially if it hit the servers and admin computers. My old school district ran everything on computers. The internet was passed through a server, the security cameras through a server to other computers, attendance, scheduling, and everything. I think certain phones were even VoIP through the server. I don't particularly care either way about DDoS attacks, but only if they don't hit things that deal with safety/security. Like if some piece of shit did a DDoS against a hospital than 5 years isn't enough because that DDoS could cause some people to die.

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So did ours, but you are missing the point completely. It's about asshat little pre-teens thinking it's still okay to do so.

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+1

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I felt it was, but hey, karma is a major bitch

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Im with you skull. Good 'rant'. Respect for others property is becoming a lost trait among the youth of today.

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Everything is ran on the BOCES network. Internet, domain controllers, Phones even...

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You can say that again

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Probably nothing.

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Good blog man. The same goes with actual land property. Every time I go to fly FPV in a certain area, I always, well 99% of the time, get clearance from the people who are responsible for that piece of land. 

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Nice post.  I agree that if it's not yours, don't screw it up.  Go get a life and contribute to society.

Though, 5 years may have been a bit harsh.

I have to say, schools ought to give kids a little more leeway with tech.  My younger sister has a school-issued laptop, and just how many features are locked is disappointing.  I understand why much of it would be, but what better way to make technology completely boring.

Experimentation and seeing just how far you take things drives interest and creates more proficient students.  Schools ought to be taking kids like that and guiding them.  I mean, figuring out how to do a DDOS isn't crazy hard, but your average American wouldn't even know where to start.

Hopefully his prison will have an awesome tech library.