Netbus and BO got me in so much trouble as a kid (though honestly I probably should have gotten in a lot more trouble).
At school, all the windows machines were locked down with a "security" application called Fortress. I started selling boot floppies that would disable Fortress to teachers, and might have loaded a few of those up with the aforementioned toys.
At home, I don't think I paid for internet access at all until well after college. A port scan of local ISP networks usually yielded someone infected with netbus or bo, and I could snarf their dialup credentials.
While those exploits probably should have landed me in jail, the worst that happened to me was an expulsion as a result of somebody else bulk changing logo.sys across school.
That really is mischievous, as a kid I'd play around on the schools computers which I felt were fair ground, though the headmaster would probably disagree. The only time I was really confronted was when I was warcycling around town, found an open WLAN and just browsed for a little while, and then the owner of the house came out and chased me away haha.
I'd often read phrack even though I didn't really understand programming yet, but there was this one issue that detailed how to trick a bottle recycling machine into giving you unlimited receipts, my local supermarket had the exact machine and I was thinking about doing it to see if it would work, but chickened out because I realized I'd actually be stealing from the owner of the supermarket who everyone in the town was on first name basis with. I always believed everything in the digital was sort of fair play and was really shocked when people started going to jail even for the dumbest thing like grey hat url injection.
There were tons of windows 95/98 computers with network shares exposed to the internet with no or weak passwords. It was really convenient to get their stored password list.
Def. kept a list of us/pws for the local dial-up. Totally was at a good friend's house years later and discovered his dial-up username was one of my list I used often. rofl, that killed me at the time. I never told him!
At school, all the windows machines were locked down with a "security" application called Fortress. I started selling boot floppies that would disable Fortress to teachers, and might have loaded a few of those up with the aforementioned toys.
At home, I don't think I paid for internet access at all until well after college. A port scan of local ISP networks usually yielded someone infected with netbus or bo, and I could snarf their dialup credentials.
While those exploits probably should have landed me in jail, the worst that happened to me was an expulsion as a result of somebody else bulk changing logo.sys across school.