LadyButterfly she/herFeb 5
Anyone find this? I'm old so don't
Show threadSoleosFeb 5
Depends, in some technical fields it’s starting to flip because kids don’t need to learn computer skills as much when they just use iPhones and tablets that “just work”.
Show threadhOrni
Yeah. My friend from high school works in high school. Among others he teaches IT. Compared to today’s kids we were hackers. We knew how to crack a game, install a driver, replace some hardware. Today’s kids don’t know how to download a file.
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Show threadJoshCodesFeb 5

I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

  • fill a word document with nonsense
  • open word document in hex editor
  • corrupt file through some means she googled
  • submit the file to our submission system
  • wait for teacher to open the file, get ‘corrupted’ message

She’d do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she’s in infosec.

Show threadEmiFeb 5
Our IT teacher knew if we did something late because he would look at when the file was last edited. We had a great IT teacher that also wanted to teach us how to think instead of just teaching basic word and excell.
Show threaddarkdemizeFeb 5
Couldn’t you then just change the system clock before editing the file? Or hell, is the metadata able to be altered by the user?
Show threadGrailFeb 5
The server logs the submission time
Show threadjayciferFeb 5
Right, but in case the teacher knows the submission time will be late because they asked for an additional submission after the due date.
Show threadbitjunkieFeb 5
  • fill a word document with nonsense

I mean this is like 90% of college even when you’re not gaming the system

Show threaddev_nullFeb 5
Well, not everyone knew how to crack a game, but many did know how to use an existing crack for a game