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		arwineap on Sept 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011) I broke into some systems at my high school, and got hired jr/sr year at my school district. Their issue was a permission misconfiguration in AD, and allowed me to do all sorts of things like adjust the backgrounds for all the computers in the district I thought it'd be an interesting entry into tech jobs, specifically around microsoft AD, which was something I never got to really play with enough at home (licensing, and hardware limitations) They ended up just using me to re-image and setup machines :(

mavamaarten on Sept 1, 2023 [–]

I also broke into the systems in college, but I was so anxious/scared about the whole ordeal I didn't dare to disclose the vulnerabilities I found.

I figured it could go both ways: either my career as IT student was over, or they would thank/praise me for it. I figured it wasn't worth the risk.

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