Let me tell you a story about "how curiosity killed the cat". I was at school one day during newspaper class (that takes place in the computer labs), bored like normal and decided to upload
my webpage there cause it was so big. At that time I had space at addr.com. Well, using the well-known flaw in Onguard using stuffit expander, I installed Transit (now known as Transmit), an
ftp program for mac. Now, this ftp program was one of those "mac friendly" ones, and had two sides. One side showing the contents of my hardrive, and the other showing the contents of the ftp site. Now, I was a little curiouse if OnGuard stoped other appllications from accesing the system folder. Obviously OnGuard didn't stop transmit. I was able to get into the system. Using my not so good senses I deleted the onguard preferences located in the top directory of the
system. Nothing imediantly happened, of course since OnGuard was running. I decided to ditch the idea of uploading my webpage and still with the idea of getting full acces privs. I restarted the
computer and to my suprise OnGuard was back to it's orginal state such as when you first install it. Since I have a copy of this software I knew that the default login was "administrator" and the
default password was blank. From there I created some new accounts etc. Well after fooling around etc I wanted to put it totally 100% back to normal. Now, I knew that the school had assimilator installed into the system folder and I had full privs. I decided to assimilate it back to normal. Well in the MIDDLE of assimilation the computer crashed. This left the applications, utilities and entire HD contents in the trash. The assimilator had tried to delete everything and
copy a fresh new copy of things from its main computer. Well the process got stoped in the middle and it left everything trashed. I was screwed. I thought nobody would find out and I decided
just to leave, it was time to go anyway. Well in the middle of global class the next day my teacher, Mrs.Knoflick told me to pack up my bag and go down to the office. Something was wrong I could tell. After I got down I saw my dad, the computer administrator, the headmaster, high school & middle school principal sitting in chairs. I sat down in the office immediantly while the computer administrator "Mr.Gilliam" pulled out log files. OnGuard keeps logs of every startup,
shutdown, copy, opening of an application, and lots more- he recovered it from the trash and had printed it out. Even an idiot could do that, but he made it seem like a major big problem. He told
the principals & headmaster that he had "Scanned the disk directory to try and find the bytes of data that the log files were stored in". They immediantly asked why and I said "curiosity". They
said I was expelled, and that over the summer they would think about letting me come back. It happened to turn out that I WAS allowed back. They had a whole sheet typed out full of rules...and this was
put on my permanant record file. I was banned from using any technology, including videocameras, VCR's, radios etc at school. This of course included all the computers, printers, etc. I also had to work for 20 days after school (25 detentions) to pay off my "$200 dollars worth of time and damage I made". Thats what got me angry. Mr.Gilliam had said it took him 2 hours to get the log files and restore the computer. I could have done it in 2 minutes, my granparants could have done it in 10 minutes. Mr.Gilliam was TRYING to get me into loads of trouble. I was not allowed to use the internet at home for 2 months, and at school. At least I was allowed back in and I am surviving it. So, thats my story- don't let curiosity kill you...it's a dangerouse thing. If I had done that anywhere else other than an educational system I could have been expolled from Japan. Maybe even sent to a Juvenile detentions center.
