He sent an email to the IT dept stating they had vulnerabilities in the system back in his freshman year and they never replied back so this was his response, months scanning the entire districts ports and writing scripts etc, preforming tests and dry runs on the system at night to exploit the system at the end of his Senior year. He detailed everything he did in a 26 page penetration test report and contacted the Administration immediately after the Rick Roll with the report - They ended up contacting his anon email and Thanked him and ended up setting up a zoom for him and his cohorts to debrief the School|Admins and the Districts IT team and worked together to fix the exploits. Evidently he's on a scholarship now at MIT. https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick
That entire post can be summed up with this this line:
Since freshman year, I had complete access to the IPTV system. I only messed around with it a few times and had plans for a senior prank, but it moved to the back of my mind and eventually went forgotten.
Everything else is classic know-it-all embellishment to make what they did sound more impressive. These are the type of kids that start believing that they're geniuses in high school because they don't see anyone else with programming knowledge. Usually they end up depressed once they begin college and realize that they're no longer the resident "hacker"
Yeah sure, best hack i ever came up with at high school during class, was to ask each classmate for one single page of refill pad each when i ran out, so i would end up with +- 32 pages and no one ever got pissed. :) ...
Wow that's amazing. I have seen this kind of thing happen and the outcome was completely different.
Yeah completely agree - Good on him for being so thorough with the documentation etc and purposely seeking to avoid disruption of any actual school time or end of year standardised tests etc - totally could of been 'unauthorized use of School projection system - instant dismissal and Police investigation for Charges something something at some other leftist hellhole School district.
At my school they withheld diplomas for a couple of weeks after they kicked you out of the building so if you pissed them off right at the end they could still punish you.
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