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That’s great. I have similar stories.

I burned some CDs with an autorun executable written in VB6 that would play a certain Rick Astley number at maximum volume until the user logged off. Left them lying around with various enticing labels. The result was as predicted. Unfortunately, as in your case, I failed to realize that the list of students likely to do such a thing was a very short one indeed.

Later on in my school clown career, I reconfigured the printers to add a giant “CONFIDENTIAL” watermark across every page. This was the day before an important coursework deadline. That one did not go as planned: clients that had cached the malicious settings kept sending them back to the print server, and it couldn’t be fixed until everyone went home for the day.



Rookie mistake, you gotta make sure to have a plausible patsy before making these shenanigans.




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