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Our school spent loads of money security their network with some Novel boot thingo. I bashed in some DOS interrupt keystrokes and was able to bypass it completely.

The whole class was playing networked DOOM about 10 minutes later.

I thought I was going to get suspended or expelled, but instead the teacher in charge of IT came to me and said "I know you did it, if you show me how you did it you wont get in trouble."

The look of disappointment on his face when he saw how easy it was... I'll never forget it. I wonder how much the school paid for that 'security' :)




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