My school's administration is stupid when it comes to running Mac networks.

[Hrvatski Jezik]

I'm serious.

My school runs all Macs, and they didn't even set a firmware password! What the forget?!
I notified the principal about it, and he said, "Well, crap. I wonder how you discovered this bug!"

See, without a firmware password, I could boot into single-user mode, become root, make a network admin account, demote all the other admins, and become absolute autocrat. Not to mention that you could easily remote-hack them, as they don't even ban Terminal. Plus, I could forget with lots of stuff.

Detentions, suspensions, salaries, lunch menus, schedules, you name it - I broke the system in under 10 minutes of access. Even then, I could also steal everyone's passwords, as they don't even hide the file that contains usernames and password hashes!

I wonder what kind of idiocy my school district has stumbled upon now.

Discuss technologically-inept school districts.

EDIT: also
the principal only listened after hearing "salaries"
greedy little forget

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[Oasis]

My school is pretty good at blocking anything and everything.

[SPooK]

My school is pretty good at blocking anything and everything.

Same. Jezik what kind of school do you go to?

[DrMaxwell]

Your school is obviously dumb for using macs in the first place...

[Hrvatski Jezik]

Same. Jezik what kind of school do you go to?

middle school

somewhere in pennsylvania

[Nickelob Ultra]

Yeah, most schools are stuffty like that.  Or they are just really not thoughtful of the student body.  My middle school had laptops issued to all students (you kept them after leaving but you paid for them), and the wireless network was so loving slow it was unbelievable.  I reached the admin about it and he said that it is the highest speed Comcast gave, which was really loving fast even for a school.  Except apparently there were maybe 2 wireless access points in the building so half the school would be split on one or the other.

Thus, slow internet.

My high school, however, has the same internet plan but dozens of wireless access points.  If you don't know what I mean by "wireless access point", I basically mean a single point that a computer can connect to wirelessly.  All these points are under the same school network.  So everyone has fast internet <3

They haven't managed to block https:// for Facebook though  

[Hrvatski Jezik]

Your school is obviously dumb for using macs in the first place...

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another stuffposting PC fanboy that comes here merely to criticize my school?

given they are dumbasses for not hiding the passowrd hash file

but macs are just as good as any pc

[Kingdaro]

My school is pretty good at blocking anything and everything.

this.

[Mr.Noßody]

See, without a firmware password, I could boot into single-user mode, become root, make a network admin account, demote all the other admins, and become absolute autocrat. Not to mention that you could easily remote-hack them, as they don't even ban Terminal. Plus, I could forget with lots of stuff.

Well, why diddnt you? I would.

[Becquerel]

My school is pretty good at blocking anything and everything.

Also Nickelbob, you lucky sonofabitch. Here, there is absolutely NOTHING issued to the students like laptops, pens, not even graph paper. Lousy DODEA. >::::oC

I also feel you Hrvat.

[Hrvatski Jezik]

Well, why diddnt you? I would.

well i did hack it
right in front of him

he was like

HNNNNNGGGGGHHHH

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another stuffposting PC fanboy that comes here merely to criticize my school?

given they are dumbasses for not hiding the passowrd hash file

but macs are just as good as any pc

Argueable but I agree, this isn't a debate over comps now.

[Hrvatski Jezik]

Argueable but I agree, this isn't a debate over comps now.

this, folks

THIS.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Also Nickelbob, you lucky sonofabitch. Here, there is absolutely NOTHING issued to the students like laptops, pens, not even graph paper. Lousy DODEA. >::::oC

Private school, requires high standardized test scores (I scored in 99th percentile), roughly $18k a year.  I think it's a full-on $20k per year now though.

I go to a private high school now, ~$11k a year, not as high standards but still really great class selection and name.  It's got the most AP courses of any local high school.

[Lørd Tøny]

My school is pretty good at blocking anything and everything.

At my old school all you had to do was download firefox and everything was unblocked.