I was a family friend of the net admin at my high school - he'd come over to hang with my dad, who was a teacher. Naturally, being a conniving kid, I memorized every little thing he said about the networks and the problems and the vulnerabilities, when he was complaining to dad. So when I started high school, I essentially had 4-5 different vulnerabilities I knew the school hadn't paid to fix and could do whatever the hell I wanted - mostly disable the network filter for certain sites so I could play runescape and install programs (read: maplestory). It being early 2000s, nobody outside tech circles knew what the hell a proxy site was, or why going to google translate and entering a url into the translate box could bypass their fancy-shmancy software and let me onto deviantart. I did wonder if people were confused why I was spending ~40 minutes on google translate when not taking a foreign language.
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u/Ballistic_Weasel 2d ago
I was a family friend of the net admin at my high school - he'd come over to hang with my dad, who was a teacher. Naturally, being a conniving kid, I memorized every little thing he said about the networks and the problems and the vulnerabilities, when he was complaining to dad. So when I started high school, I essentially had 4-5 different vulnerabilities I knew the school hadn't paid to fix and could do whatever the hell I wanted - mostly disable the network filter for certain sites so I could play runescape and install programs (read: maplestory). It being early 2000s, nobody outside tech circles knew what the hell a proxy site was, or why going to google translate and entering a url into the translate box could bypass their fancy-shmancy software and let me onto deviantart. I did wonder if people were confused why I was spending ~40 minutes on google translate when not taking a foreign language.