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[Carde]

I never trust any piece of software to do what it should

But yeah I make lots of versions, save all the time and make backups of anything I really need to keep around. Lesson learned when a critical excel file at work got corrupted and learned that IT doesn't run backups......... (50+billion dollar company and they don't run backups.................).

[chaitanya]

Hahahaha Our school started using Softwares to keep track of attendance after Attendance Registers went missing from the school record room two years back...

[Carde]

Pffft lets see middle school IT:

It took us about 30 seconds to guess the Admins PW and from there things went south fast as we spammed all PCs in the school with messages you have to close before you can do anything else (and you can send them a heck of a lot faster than you can close them). So that was just fun.

My brief period studying however was different as well it was what we call a higher school literally translated (it is a skill level below university). There we had the issue that everyone was clogging up the network watching shit on youtube, so we hacked the network, blocked youtube so that we could download the programs we needed for our assignments and than unblocked it again.

I hope that these days they take security a bit more serious cause it was a joke 8 years ago.

[Unknown98]

When I was in high school we set up a LAN network and played halo lol. Teachers didn't care as long as we finished our assignments first.

[Aussie]

My high school doesn't even have a wifi password, just a certificate that you need the school email address to get. They also attempt to use netspace but don't block VPNs, and don't really police the rules. But I'm certainly not compaining.

[Unknown98]

What's netspace? My high school had this siren thing that went off (if you had your volume turned on) whenever you visited a website they didn't like. Actually I don't think they had public WiFi at all until my junior or senior year... although it wasn't much of a problem because almost nobody had phones that could connect to the internet back then.

[POTKC]

My school's wifi allows teachers to monitor student's laptops remotely (yes, they give us laptops, that's a big plus). People quickly found that getting onto the guest wifi network (as opposed to the student's wifi network) made all monitoring impossible. So the school spent a month remaking the wifi network into a new login system (not just a password, we have usernames and stuff now), so they could see who is connected and also changed the password of the guest wifi. It took approximately two days for someone to get their father (who was in for a meeting about something, don't know the story behind that) to ask for the wifi password, then get it from him. Now everybody knows the new password.

And on an unrelated note - my school's wifi safety thingy (fortiguard I think it's called) blocks any webpage about paganism, even if it's on an educational website or a revision guide site or whatever, citing "Alternative Beliefs" as the reason. Other sites are censored because of "Alcohol", "Violence", "Nudity", and other less-movie rating sounding things, but...why is "Alternative Beliefs" even inside the code of that thing as a potential reason for censorship?

[Carde]

Brainwashing honestly.

[Aussie]

What's netspace? My high school had this siren thing that went off (if you had your volume turned on) whenever you visited a website they didn't like. Actually I don't think they had public WiFi at all until my junior or senior year... although it wasn't much of a problem because almost nobody had phones that could connect to the internet back then.

Almost forgot not everyone is Australian.

It's just a government-run internet filter which they use it schools. It doesn't cause a siren though, it just blocks the page with a 'This site is not able to be accessed' page and lets you do whatever after that.

[Unknown98]

Lol, ah okay. Figured it was something along those lines.