@@DerNebelKommt I used to to school with a few, a lot of em started learning programming from a young age and by the time they got to college they knew more than their CS professors.
Deadass, about 2014, I remember having a school laptop for homeschool that was blocked from most sites. I don't fucking know HOW, but in some odd way I went right through the firewalls and shit at twelve years old and I did it consistently. The guys that put the blockers up in the first place wanted to know who did it and if they could hire them. Obviously my mom said no, he's twelve. Which made the guys even more dumbfounded. Meanwhile I'm just sitting in class feeling awkward and embarrassed about the whole thing kinda of telling them how I did it. Again, I don't remember how but it dealt with choosing which software to update. Which I think overrode the current software of the laptop after an update so it'd be the same thing just without the block.
I’d like to think the headmaster still lives and will see this video. And with an angry iron finger pointing at her screen, she will shriek “I knew it was you!”
I'm so surpriseed how trusting schools are with their IT systems and networks, now granted, teachers are fossils and barely understand how picture work but the amount of presentations I had to show from a USB drive. The amount of attack vectors I had into this one single school would have basically given me root access in every system if I knew about it back then.
They were even more trusting back in the day. Way back in, oh, 2005 or so, I remember gaining control of my entire university's IT department because I was tired of the crusty old Win98SE systems we had that were infected to high hell, and just installed dualboot Linux on everything. The thing is, I was young and dumb at the time and didn't cover my tracks AT ALL - it'd have been simplicity itself to catch me. Nobody bothered because nobody cared; the local IT tech was lazy, security in the building was nonexistent and the students were happy they had *something* they could use to surf without instantly catching virtual chlamydia so nobody tattled on me. Ah, to relive those carefree times.
In our elementary school we had network folders in format *server\accouts\students\(student's name)\* and of course probably everyone tried to edit the path to somebody else's name and it gave access denied error. But for some reason it worked when shortcut was created for that. And not only to access other's private folders but the whole server to the root folder. Though our IT teacher was actually very skilled and he warned us that if we copy some bad files in public folder that everybody can access then there will be that person's name shown as creator of the file. So i knew that only thing that i could do was deleting files of kids that was pissing me off. :D
Reminds me of that time when I was somewhere between 5th and 7th grades. Our IT teacher was our headmistress who barely knew anything about PCs apart from the simplest MSPaint/Word exercises. So there I was one day, feeling bored in IT class because the cool kids always called dibs on the only PC that had GTA San Andreas installed. To kill boredom, I made a one-line batch file that ran shutdown.exe with a 1 second timer and the text "TROLOLOLOLO". I moved it to the Startup folder on XP as a dumb joke. I've even persuaded a few other friends to do the same prank on their computers. Not even a few hours passed when she stormed into English class and specifically told ME to come with her and fix what I've done. It wasn't hard to trace it back to me as I was the only XP aficionado in our class of ~28 kids. Apparently "I've ruined school property" and "the other kids can't even boot to the OS" now, and the next time "I'll have to answer the principal" yadda yadda... I kept a smug, shit eating grin on my face as I "fixed" all the computers within minutes (including the obligatory normal startup to fake-diagnose the problem with a puzzled "hmm" and a "hold my beer" attitude). Apparently she didn't even know that booting in Safe Mode meant that nothing apart from the basic necessities, not even stuff within the Startup folder, would run. It was fun while it lasted but I'll always remember the day I proved the IT teacher that she's not as much of a hot shit as she thought she was. It's not some super exciting story like Boris', plus we didn't even have access to a shared network in that school, but it's still a story I cherish and felt like sharing. My other favorite prank was creating folders with names referring to illegal material, keywords like "CP", "zoo" and such, then hitting Printscreen and deleting the folder for good. Crop the task bar in Paint, save the pic somewhere deep within the WINDOWS folder where it'll never be found, and set it as the background. Watching as the teacher furiously kept trying to select the fake folder with a puzzled face never got old in any of my schools.
A guy in my school was learning "programming". At age 15, before he changed school, he decided he was tired of the whole place and made a virus that deleted the system32 file from every computer that happened to come into contact with it. He then put it into every single computer in the whole school, and it somehow even made it into some teachers' personal computer. They realized what had happened at the start of the next year. Needless to say, we didn't have computers for the first 5 months of that year The thing is, the guy that did that was known as "the russian". I'm pretty sure him and Boris are related, guess being a tech savant runs in their blood
During IT classes in highschool the teacher used a program called something with Vision, where he could see all the screens of the students and see if they did what they were supposed to. Once my friend and I were writing a report in the computer room, my friend decided to log into the teacher computer with his own account. He then had access to the Vision software and kept annoying me. I knew I didn't have admin rights, but I knew I could take the right from myself to open said program. So I did and from then on my screen was always black for the teacher and I said I don't know why. :)
Fascinating how he remembers it. Imagine Boris waking up and being like "I remembered that story from 20 years ago I'm sure my fans want to know about it".
pff i did it at 12. so im far superior. then again my stepdad was a big shot in the industry and what i used according to him was basic kiddy shit. we even laughed for hours until he said : im not teaching you any more ''malicious'' stuff.
Boris! I have a similar story! When I was in high school in the early 2000's, I was a couple points away from failing a math class because I had simply not wanted to do the massive amount of annoying and unnecessary homework this particular teacher forced on us. My test scores were great, so I knew what I was doing, I just resented having my time wasted by this teacher who valued sheer volume of silly make-work over practical tests of my ability. So I'm about to fail a class I should have passed easily, was going to have to re-take, and was NOT happy about it. So, long story short I was also a smart little bastard, installed a key-logger on the teacher's computer during lunch break, got the password for her electronic grading program that was networked into the school system, and altered things JUST enough that I barely passed, but not enough to be noticeable. The teacher never did notice, and I passed with a D. Funny enough, since I never legally passed that math class I should never have legally graduated high school, and therefore my current computer tech degree isn't valid either, but at this point nobody can do anything about it. Stay cheeky! ;)
@@taraskhan475 they probably left it logged on during lunch the student then downloaded and ran the logger off a stick or internet download in a hidden folder
@@taraskhan475 I had a buddy (works for Google now, REALLY smart guy) who had one on a disk. I don't know where or how he got it. This would have been around 2003 in the U.S., so they were readily available and you could download pretty much anything via the school's computer lab. Like Boris mentions in the video, the early 2000's were a hacker's playground because people just weren't as conscious about cybersecurity. The teacher in question only had her grading network login password protected, but not her PC itself, so all I had to do was insert the disk, transfer the log script to an unobtrusive folder, wait a day, come back and get the log file off her machine, and read through the log file until I found the username and password. How did I find just two small sections in all the other logged strokes? I did a text search using the first 4 letters of the teacher's last name. It's a no-no nowdays, but back then the teachers had all or part of their real last names as part of their network usernames. So finding "Jones13Alg" was obviously a userame, and what followed would be the password, naturally. And once I had her credentials by logging the keystrokes on her personal computer, I could log on to the grading network via any OTHER computer running the grading software in the school. So I could take my time messing around learning the grading software from the safety of the computer lab on lunch break without having to risk breaking back into places I wasn't supposed to be and getting caught.
Also high schools can be oddly petty about these things sometimes, even revoking diplomas decades after the fact So, just make sure that this comment isn't in any way traceable back to you irl
I remember once at my school the IT teacher decided to teach us the different parts that make up a computer, they disassembled a desktop to show us the individual parts like CPU, Ram..., By the time the lesson ended half of all the Ram was missing and 2 CPUs were no where to be found, my classmates stole them not even knowing what they were worth, it's funny because those were Pentium 3 CPUs (At the time those were top notch and very expensive) and they just played with them and tossed them in the trash, i managed to salvage one and sold it for 200 bucks to a local store i used to know the owner of, and that's how i became the richest kid in class...and Almost got expelled for stealing School equipment.
By the early 2000's, my bedroom was filled with old computers (hand-me-downs from family and friends) that I learned computers on. Everything from 8088's to a couple early Pentiums. By the time I was Boris' age, I was already building my own file/print servers running an academic licence of Server 2000 (my mom was going through her second round of college to go into IT, so she had a copy). I really regret getting rid of those IBM 5150 and 5160's that I had, because those are pretty valuable in retro computing these days. Fortunately, I kept my childhood Tandy 1000HX, which still works!
in my freshmen high school year (so last year) we had a bunch of those older dell optiplex sff pcs that have 4th gen i5 cpus each. me and my friend smuggled about 6 4gb ddr3 ram sticks, 3 i5 4570s, and a few hard drives. the classes were small for that class and there were some spots that nobody sat in. i still don’t think anyone has figured it out that some of the pcs have been completely skeletonized of everything valuable. i ended up building a few low end computers with those parts and some spare parts, and probably made about 750ish usd from the whole operation lol.
Had a buddy in high school who hacked into the computer system (this was back in 2005ish)to try and change a girl's grades he had a crush on to improve the grades. He did manage to change the grades, he didn't win her heart though. He went to "alternative school" (aka jail school for delinquents) til he graduated. He now works for the CIA in Washington DC.
I once have been trying to change my laptop's font and came across a script that would allow me to do that. Then, one day i copied the file onto my tablet and brought it to school. I copied it onto the teacher's laptop in my class and have run the program, with the target font being *wingdings.* It requires a restart for the change to take place, so it took half a week for it to be noticed. Due to that our history class have been canceled. A couple days later when the issue have been fixed, my teacher asked me if that was me who did it. I got scared and quickly answered no.
I can just imagine the history teacher seeing the Wingdings when loading some kind of document and thinking that an alien martian has hacked the systems. Would make for an interesting semester lol
A friend of mine once unleashed a thousand page word document consisting entirely of the word "giggity" to every printer in the entire school district because it was in huge font. It cost the district tens of thousands of dollars. He was promptly expelled.
You know, expelling a kid because you are too stupid to figure out how to kill a print command is some BS. They literally punished him for embarrassing them
@@thedutchwolf9747 It was just meant to be the library printer, but it sent the job to other printers in the school when the ink ran out, and then somehow the whole district after those were also depleted.
@@SharpForceTrauma why was that even possible in the first place? It shouldn’t be like that. That was more poor IT management than the fault of your friend and shouldn’t expel him… Usually it should be so that for example every PC in the Libary can only access the library’s printer in the network and so on with an printer in the class…. But that sounds like that happened a while ago and nobody would have said that this could happen to anyone on accident and the IT was poorly configured.
@@Beencheeling sorry for having to correct you, but C++ is a compiled language so you would call that a binary. a script is when you write it in an interpreted language
this was a great story when i took a computer class one day the teacher let us do whatever we wanted so everyone just watched youtube videos after awhile the teacher was surprised no one caused a red screen which happens when you look up explicit content he explained that certain colors will trigger the red lockout screen so three people started looking up orange and red cars and all three got red screened if it happens four times the teacher gets in trouble so we stopped although he still had to explain what happened but being an awesome teacher he didn't rat on anybody RESPECT
As an "IT guy" I can only imagine, that what Boris really did, did not crash anything. It might have been just a coincidence that at the exactly same time someone else did something serious, and as he mentioned that there were no restrictions on file permitions, hence the effect...
I was wondering if Boris & his buddy accessed the same file simultaneously, though that would likely only have crashed Word. One of the other kids might have been opening system files, in Word, to find out what was on them, then either saved the file or Word auto-saved on close. That would have fudged the network file
I thought since they had read/write access and he said the file was full of gibberish, that they edited some key file of the network as text file and overwrote it, thus crashing everything
Crusty old Windows network shenanigans. It was always a ticking time bomb back then. Nobody had to have done anything wrong or unusual for it to just randomly crap up.
I have a somewhat similar story, but it involves a company server, a remote location, and the forbidden access to Duke Nukem 3D on one of the PCs. And how I circumvented that restriction with a "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written," moment.
Deploying videos whenever you want to instead of becoming enslaved to a whimsical algorithm is the way to go. Kudos...I just hope you finally figured that out.
I did something similar with my mates in school. Except no crashing systems. The boys (basically the collective of all male students in a class that basically forms a gang) were in the back and chilling when one of them went to the bathroom but left his laptop open. One of my friends ran over and was doing something, and then ran back loosing his shit with giggles. We all nearly died after he told us he set 2000 pages of this shirtless shrek meme we made earlier that day, to the library printer. He came back, and it took our collective effort not to lose it, but things calmed down after 15 minutes with nothing. Next minute, principle storms in and the IT admin behind her, calls out the kid and he walks out being confused. Me and the boys are rocking in our chais trying not to laugh our asses off, before promptly loosing it once they left. They had walked around the side of the classroom so we ran to the far right wall and looked over the loovers and listened in. The kid was being threatened with "severe consequences" and "academic misconduct". He pleaded innocent but was put on a final warning. We all nearly fell off the benches as they came back to the class and we quickly got to our desks again, the kid came in and stared at us and we lost it. "Aw you fuckin dickheads, the lot of ya." He yelled at us and the teacher quickly yelled at him for swearing, we lost it even harder then before as he sat beside us in the backrow. Best memory.
A kid in our class thought "what is this switch on the back?" He flipped it and sparks and smoke came from the computer. We have 240V mains power here so computer power supplies have a switch to switch it to 110V or 240V. You can guess the rest.
eyy i remeber my friend doing the exact same thing in school when we were like 10. just heard a bang and then the whole classroom smelled like firecrackers.
Statute of limitations to the rescue! 😅 The crash happened when Boris was 13. Very likely he's over 23 now, so whatever happened would have happened over 10 years ago. While the times vary by jurisdiction, 10 years is a plenty of time for that. (I'm not a lawyer, just an individual using logic.)
Who said they were going to use legal means of getting him? Maybe they became master hackers and are now trying to sabotage his vodka cooled technology. I also don't know what the statute of limitations of whatever country he grew up in is.@@enginerd80
@@enginerd80crashing school system isn’t really illegal tho, the teachers probably thought Boris or his companions ran some weird capitalist virus or overwrote files with the intent to destroy, if Boris came clean saying he accidentally wrote in English they would most likely understand it was a mistake not active goal to crash or destroy.
i remember taking a screenshot of the desktop with all icons, deleting them and using the screenshot as wallpaper. then moving the taskbar to the top of the display, making it disappear and innocently telling the teacher "i think something is wrong" and watching him lose his shit. good old times😂
Myself and friends were called up for similar hijinks, netsend and other network tools also booting from diskette. For visual effect they had a file on each of us. Really felt like the interrogation in the matrix, perhaps they just watched it too. All of us are now IT professionals one kind or another, all the teachers still struggle to change audio input source on teams. We're not bad kids, we help them when we see this
I remember always being kinda freaked out about adults having to blame some kid or something when some technical problem came up which was often just some software bug or unreliability in the system, and most of us not even knowing this was the case and kinda internalizing that we did something wrong, even if it wasn't necessarily anybody's fault.
I got into trouble at school because I clicked backwards on a network share enough times to show every PC on the domain (just a list view, I know now that there were possibilities for mischief if servers were discoverable, but at this point I was just a kid enamoured with being able to see every PC in one place). The teacher saw my screen and gave me detention. Funnily enough, my first IT job was at the very same school years later, with the same network manager. As scary as he was when I was a kid, he was actually a really awesome guy.
Reminds me of 1st year in highschool when we would receive english assignments in Google docs and go over them as a class. Docs was still primitive at this time, and I noticed that the chat function didn't have a text limit. I found a website with the fall of the house of Usher by Poe and copied the entire thing to clipboard, then pasted it in chat to see what would happen. Everyone viewing the document had to restart their laptops and class was over. Unfortunately while the teacher had no idea there was a chat function, the IT person was competent enough to check the logs and inform them who dun it the next day.
As a recently graduated computer science student working in software engineering, this was thoroughly hilarious, and reminded me how one of my friends in college realized he had some kind of read access on the network to everyone (including the accounts of professors). He was sent to IT security and they gave him a job
16 years ago, I was known for being a 9 year old kid who liked computers a lot. I regularly got pulled out of class to come help fix something. Even fixed my school's network once; they put me in front of their main server, some UTP cables were not seated correctly (teachers missed that, idk how), put UTP cables in all the way and it all worked again. :)
I just remembered: years later in grade 8, we found out what a fork bomb is. So naturally, with a few friends we put %0|%0 in a Batch script (don't ever run this, you'll regret it) and let it rip on some of the school's terminals. What we didn't realize was that all these terminals "lived" on a main server that was now doomed to crash, all of it's resources were rapidly depleting. It took barely 3 minutes and every. single. screen. in the school went dark. Uh oh, what have we done. All of us went back to class and never heard anything of it.
At my elementary school, we used to have virtual PCs running on thin clients, with each classroom having one "server". At some point I found out how to make batch files, so I started messing around. Eventually I created a batch file which kept on opening itself until it overloaded the memory. I didn't understand the way our network worked yet, so I accidentally crashed every computer in my class because I overloaded the server...
My mother learned the ins and outs of MS DOS, back in the '80s, and was an early adopter of pretty much everything computer-related, including early internet Multi-User Dungeon games, (or MUD,) and PC's in general. Basically extremely early, text-based MMOs. She told me of one time where she used the local connection to other computers to do something of a network hack, making every PC in the office display a message, saying something along the lines of "This PC will self-destruct in 20 seconds." After the 20 seconds were up, every computer shut down. Nothing else happened, though. Just a bit of silly office nonsense, and the PCs all ran normally afterward. Ma was cool. EDIT: Added some clarification.
My first computer experience was also with MS-DOS. I still have that machine too. A Tandy 1000HX, with DOS 2.11 baked into ROM, which was very convenient because that machine never came with a hard drive, and everything had to be run off of floppy.
Last year, I got ou IT class shut down for a year by changing all the shared files to say "HACK." And then IT was shut down for the rest of the year because they thought it was a real hack
The early 2000s were an amazing time for educational computer-ing in general. The teachers/admin knew it was important, knew that we should learn something about computers, knew that it wasn't all that hard to royally F things up, but also knew absolutely nothing about how to contain all of our curiosity and half-baked knowledge. For instance, I got a "broken" PC from school in the 5th or 6th grade that wouldn't successfully boot one year, brought it home (in a shopping cart I "borrowed" from the drug store), showed it to my dad. His first question was "did they try re-installing the OS?" Bewildered, I said I had no idea (bc I legitimately had no idea that could even be done). He came home the next day from work with an old copy of Windows 95 (they had recently upgraded to W98), a serial, and ten minutes later we had a new, fully functional PC. In any case, I applaud Boris, his young-slav hacking aptitude, and his ability to remain silent in the face of dimwitted tyranny. Bonus points for being able to quickly ascertain that the comrade standing next to him was more likely to take the fall.
I remember doing shit like this when I was like 10 in computer lab lmao. As soon as I found out I had read and write privileges in the entire network, I would put weird shit in other kids folders
Back when I was in school, the students and teachers had physically separated networks, but students were able to see into each other's folders if they knew where to look. That was a major oversight I decided to fix after I graduated and stayed on to help with IT work. We ended up replacing the two servers with a single server, and merging the two networks. I developed a VBS script to automate the creation of student and teacher Active Directory profiles, create folders, and set permission hierarchies so that students couldn't read or write each other's folders (or even see them), but teachers could.
The classic highschool prank. I did similar things too lmao. I made a simple virus that spam message box of my principal name is gay to every computer at school lol. Resulting I get detention for a week lol.
Ok, I have an extremely insane conspiracy theory. I believe Boris moved away from his country at a young age and spent a bunch of years in an English speaking country. If you watch his really really old videos, he's actually easier to understand than he is now. I honestly doubt his name is even Boris, what with his extreme dedication to privacy. And why would Slavic kids in a poor former Soviet backwater speak English? I have very little evidence for this, but little things like this very American sounding word just add up to something being fishy for me
@@LieutenantD4 Yeah, it wouldn't bother me per say if it were 100% an act. UA-cam has definitely created some stuff blurring that line between fact and fiction. But I would say he never openly suggests it's just a character so many people would likely feel very angry and betrayed were I proven right somehow.
Reminds me of when they put me in computer class, IT teacher hadn't taught me computer stuff before, but they knew me from other classes, and literally, in front of the whole damn computer class, just went ''everyone except Mirvra open up this document ok?'' then comes over to me and tells me ''alright so, you're already getting the best grade I can give in this class, so just play some games or something to kill the time ok? Unless you want to redo some stuff?'' Note, I am NOT some computer genius, most of you are way better than me. BUT, at the time most kids didn't know how to turn computers on, meanwhile I literally grew up in a room filled with 3 PC's running Windows 95/98. To me the idea we needed computer classes at all was confusing as heck, since I just assumed everyone had computers.
I got all the hand-me-down computers from family an friends in the early aughts. Everything from 8088's to early Pentiums, which I got to take apart and put back together. Best computer learning experience one could ask for, even if my room had become a computer graveyard.
@@BlackEpyon i was born in 96' and i have a bunch of old computers that mainly use windows xp and vista and a singular computer that runs msdos a dell computer corporation d333 produced in 1990 it has a intel 386 running at 16mhz at the time the computer was created dell was about 6 years old and now it's 30 something still works i figured out how antenna tv's work just to see that the computer still works as the monitor that went with it is dead but seems to have some life in it still i had to use a old black and white set to see the picture also they still use the analog systems despite turning them off i found a advert that says it has a max of 6mb static ram and 10mb dynamic ram but it originally came with 1mb of ram apparently the one i have originally cost about 5k and was used primarily in cad software work my maternal grandfather used to work in cad design back in the 70's and later upgraded to this computer of course he kept it and later gave it to me along with the original keyboard
@@slycooper1001 Born in '87. My first computer was my dad's Tandy 1000 HX. 8 MHz 8088. No hard drive, only dual 720k floppies. I still have it, and it still works.
This fun story deserves a full animation of it! You and your 4 other classmates were solid. Instead of usual punishment they could have recruited you guys instead.
Reminds me of the time the IT guy at my old high school crashed the entire network and delayed the start of classes for a week cause he installed a virus on the network that kept crashing the school network every time they did a fresh network wide reinstall of windows from the image....turned out the virus was on the image itself and was on there cause he made the windows image at home on a pc he didn't realize was infected. Best part? years later that same IT guy was one of my IT instructors in college. Go figure
If I didn't know my Best friend Dima well enough to recognize him even with a balakava on, and also know that my name isn't maxim, i would've thought you're telling my story of what happened in pc class i was in
Lmao, We all had tight sec on our systems back when I was in high school... However after going to Tech I ended up with a flashdrive and *It* I put games on... still have it to this day.. Powder Toy Portable was a goooood time waster... and also the entirety of Half Life Source.
lmao something like this happened to me, the teacher was teaching us how to make folders but me and my friend already knew all that, so we kept deleting every folder anyone made in the drive so that they think they are doing it wrong, we accidentally deleted the folder that contained all our class's projects since the start of the year
Nicely done sir! reminds me of when I was 16 when I found out what an MP3 was. (mid 90s) So once I figured out how they worked, I started getting my friends to give me their CDs. I began to rip/compress them, and then stored them on my network drive. This way we could listen to them on any computer in the school. After some time, each computer class got a talking to about 'proper' use of the school network, and that 'only school assignments' should be stored on your network drive. Then I got called down to the office. They weren't happy with the fact I chewed up all the available space on the server with these tracks and applications...:3
Reminds me of incident back in my highschool. Someone changed the setting of powersupply . Yes it is back in the day where there is a setting for voltage. The smoke smell like peanuts.
You'd be in Europe then? In North America, changing the voltage setting would just mean that it's only getting half the voltage it needs, and wouldn't even power on.
As the former school IT guy, I can guarantee you that teachers never think about setting read/write permissions on student folders. In high-school, I was the one creating student active directory profiles, and linking them to the student's data folder, because the vice principle (who was supposed to be in charge of IT) never had the time. After I graduated, I stayed on to help with IT work, and developed a visual basic script to automate the process of creating the profiles and folders, and setting permission hierarchies so that students couldn't see into each other's profiles, but teachers could.
Never had i seen a storytelling channel that was diffused from the rest. Your story actually sounded REAL and BELIEVABLE, and i don't know, there's something about your voice that makes me want to just keep watching this +1 sub, +1 like I hope to see more stuff like this!
I was 14 when I accidentally made a zip bomb. I was bored and got curious how far i can compress a file. Turned it into an exe file for instant unzipping thinking I'd easily come back to the file it contains. iirc another student from a different shift turned executed the zip file out of curiosity and crashed the computer. Thank goodness the lab's standard procedure for such things was to format the drive so I got away with it. I only became aware of the zip bomb later that school year when my professor told us about the new computer lab policies 😅
It makes things very easy for the IT guys when they have imaging software set up. We used Ghost for a while, until I got Windows Deployment Services set up. Where I had to spend MY time was repairing all the student laptops the kids kept abusing. Picking keys, wrecking the hinges, etc. I was in at least twice a week, and every time I'd walk in, there'd be a stack of laptops for me to fix.
Awesome format! Love it! I have been following your channel since before you started to feel like you were not happy, I’m glad it’s gotten better and I hope you keep doing whatever it is you want to upload, since those are always the videos with a soul, the videos I love to watch the most.
I had a similar experience in computer class...well the part where I already knew the basics while everyone else was struggling to open a program on the desktop itself.
Remembering a friend's story now about hacking school grades, kid meant to change all his grades to A's in the district-wide servers (California bay area, chances are these were some of the largest/most complicated school IT systems at the time-00's). Kid accidentally changed ALL the kids grades to all As. I believe he also had some registry/log edits in place to scrub any recovery assets as well. He got very expelled, but i believe a teacher or parent got in contact to connect him with mentors. For reference, district probably had ~50 schools of densely populated classes. Thousands of grades to recover. I believe the only saving grace was many hard copy grade logs still being around.
I remember doing the same sort of thing back in school with some bat files. Later on, I switched schools and was more or less responsible for IT there as there wasn't too many of the teachers who even knew how computers worked. Good times. Also, holy shit, Boris was hiding black bars behind his glasses all this time!
LOL... I had a job at an ISP helpdesk in college. I always had my badge because the job was two streets away from college so I just went there after classes. One day I got to class and the network was down. So I walked over to IT, and saw three guys staring at a screen, trying to figure out what was wrong. I flashed my (totally worthless, but impressive looking ISP badge) and fixed it. (They has swap, OS and storage on the same partition. Swap files had filled up the partition. Deleted old swap files, set a totally unused partition to swap space... beginner stuff.) AS thanks, from that moment on, any issue the system had was blamed on me, and I only survived there because through sheer luck I could prove each time I hadn't been in the building.
I love how the "post-soviet eastern Europe" countries are so similar between each other (and themselves through time) that this could have happened in any of them from the soviet era until today... Slavs truly being either 0day experts or unable to turn PC on and there being nothing between is so funny sometimes.
Bro all computer teachers are like this. Even today 2023. When I go to computer lab, the (very unfortunately) -1 IQ computer teacher always roams around and shows bossiness. And if one surpass him at coding, he just looks at the code for some time (understanding nothing for obvious reasons) and continues showing bossiness to the rest of the students, while completely ignoring the existence of that person.
And this is why you have to have one network for the school and a second separate one for IT students. And also an antivirus that doesn't sh*t itself over a silly little .txt file.
Funniest Boris childhood story yet! 😂😂👍🏼👍🏼 You are an excellent storyteller, thank you for sharing! And yes, instant messaging the other person next to you is a time honored tradition since even the 80s)))
Kind of an odd tactic to tell someone they’re going to get expelled and expecting them to come forward after that… They could have just asked if anyone did something weird and asked for help fixing it, it’s not like it was really a malicious crime that required punishment.
Boris if you need some more ideas for videos look at the book "Homemade Russia". It's a bunch of weird home made things made in post soviet russia. Like one guy made a radio reciever by welding a bunch of forks together, following instructions from a magazine. Maybe you can make a computer from a bunch of old microwaves or something.
Modern microwaves have CPUs of tiny processing capacity so it's theoretically possible if you find out how to reprogram them, to make them run your own code. Maybe with a bunch of them stacked, you could run some sorta old OS
Remembered doing some pc "hijacking" shenanigans back in 2015 or something, was about 14 years old that time. In my high school ICT class, every table has a single system unit with 8 to 10 Thin Client and a special Windows 8 OS installed (RDP or sharepoint, dunno the name, forgot), and every table's system unit is linked to another system unit which the teacher uses. IP addresses are predictable, and the user accounts in every system units were also predictable, and after some experimentations, me and the boys managed to log on PCs from a different table, lol. Then tomfoolery happened. We "hijacked" some PCs that schoolmates are using, then doing some trolling on their documents lmao, and even changing desktop backgrounds with random doodles from Paint. Weeks later, someone snitched on me. Got scolded and told to fix my mess (which is just resetting user accounts, no big deal). I even made "secret" accounts in those PCs with names going by "System Update" or "Dell Bios Update"
This was a truly fascinating story, very fun to listen to, thank you Boris 😄 I managed to spread a file in school among my classmates that relentlessly opened and closed the CD-ROM hatch, it was hilarious while it lasted 😂
I got kicked out of my schools IT class, not because I was some elite hacker like Boris, but because I couldn't figure out how to program shit. When everyone else had finished their first workbook exercises I was still on the first page. So they kicked my caveman arse into the wood and metal workshop 2 years before I was supposed to be there and I did fine.
the network crash might be the same reason for "Bush hid the facts","this app can break", "four tre tre fives" (4 letter word 3 letter word 3 letter word 5 letter word) when you save it converts to chinese letters (corrupts) and the network drive crashes (fixed in windows vista and later)
Boris singlehandedly crashing an army of Windows 9x/NT 4 computers is a skill few people have.
Ha godem
Possibly it was Workgroups? Yes.....I am very old.
Probably a KGB agent
Windows 95 networks were more than capable of crashing themselves. I'm surprised they got more than 4 edits and saves of the same file in...
Yea but it was the early days of the PC so it was caca😅
There are two types of hackers:
1- those who trained for years in the most advanced institute in the world.
2- Boris
Most Hackers that I have met are self-taught.
@@nandayanehow many have you met?
@@DerNebelKommt I used to to school with a few, a lot of em started learning programming from a young age and by the time they got to college they knew more than their CS professors.
more like "2 types of professional hackers"
Deadass, about 2014, I remember having a school laptop for homeschool that was blocked from most sites. I don't fucking know HOW, but in some odd way I went right through the firewalls and shit at twelve years old and I did it consistently. The guys that put the blockers up in the first place wanted to know who did it and if they could hire them. Obviously my mom said no, he's twelve. Which made the guys even more dumbfounded. Meanwhile I'm just sitting in class feeling awkward and embarrassed about the whole thing kinda of telling them how I did it. Again, I don't remember how but it dealt with choosing which software to update. Which I think overrode the current software of the laptop after an update so it'd be the same thing just without the block.
I’d like to think the headmaster still lives and will see this video. And with an angry iron finger pointing at her screen, she will shriek “I knew it was you!”
She would be screaming in the most shrill voice "BOORRIISSS BLLLLLYYYYT". And then her heart stops and a flat line in hospital
damn bruh, I don't know how old Boris is , but if he say the headmaster was 60y/o when he was 13 imagine how old she's now
She would be about 80 now so it is possible
She'll look like that one shriveled up bitch from the Spongebob chocolate episode.
@@mklaver31especially in Russia.
I'm so surpriseed how trusting schools are with their IT systems and networks, now granted, teachers are fossils and barely understand how picture work but the amount of presentations I had to show from a USB drive. The amount of attack vectors I had into this one single school would have basically given me root access in every system if I knew about it back then.
They were even more trusting back in the day. Way back in, oh, 2005 or so, I remember gaining control of my entire university's IT department because I was tired of the crusty old Win98SE systems we had that were infected to high hell, and just installed dualboot Linux on everything. The thing is, I was young and dumb at the time and didn't cover my tracks AT ALL - it'd have been simplicity itself to catch me. Nobody bothered because nobody cared; the local IT tech was lazy, security in the building was nonexistent and the students were happy they had *something* they could use to surf without instantly catching virtual chlamydia so nobody tattled on me. Ah, to relive those carefree times.
In our elementary school we had network folders in format *server\accouts\students\(student's name)\* and of course probably everyone tried to edit the path to somebody else's name and it gave access denied error. But for some reason it worked when shortcut was created for that. And not only to access other's private folders but the whole server to the root folder.
Though our IT teacher was actually very skilled and he warned us that if we copy some bad files in public folder that everybody can access then there will be that person's name shown as creator of the file. So i knew that only thing that i could do was deleting files of kids that was pissing me off. :D
Reminds me of that time when I was somewhere between 5th and 7th grades. Our IT teacher was our headmistress who barely knew anything about PCs apart from the simplest MSPaint/Word exercises. So there I was one day, feeling bored in IT class because the cool kids always called dibs on the only PC that had GTA San Andreas installed. To kill boredom, I made a one-line batch file that ran shutdown.exe with a 1 second timer and the text "TROLOLOLOLO". I moved it to the Startup folder on XP as a dumb joke. I've even persuaded a few other friends to do the same prank on their computers.
Not even a few hours passed when she stormed into English class and specifically told ME to come with her and fix what I've done. It wasn't hard to trace it back to me as I was the only XP aficionado in our class of ~28 kids. Apparently "I've ruined school property" and "the other kids can't even boot to the OS" now, and the next time "I'll have to answer the principal" yadda yadda... I kept a smug, shit eating grin on my face as I "fixed" all the computers within minutes (including the obligatory normal startup to fake-diagnose the problem with a puzzled "hmm" and a "hold my beer" attitude).
Apparently she didn't even know that booting in Safe Mode meant that nothing apart from the basic necessities, not even stuff within the Startup folder, would run. It was fun while it lasted but I'll always remember the day I proved the IT teacher that she's not as much of a hot shit as she thought she was.
It's not some super exciting story like Boris', plus we didn't even have access to a shared network in that school, but it's still a story I cherish and felt like sharing.
My other favorite prank was creating folders with names referring to illegal material, keywords like "CP", "zoo" and such, then hitting Printscreen and deleting the folder for good. Crop the task bar in Paint, save the pic somewhere deep within the WINDOWS folder where it'll never be found, and set it as the background. Watching as the teacher furiously kept trying to select the fake folder with a puzzled face never got old in any of my schools.
A guy in my school was learning "programming". At age 15, before he changed school, he decided he was tired of the whole place and made a virus that deleted the system32 file from every computer that happened to come into contact with it. He then put it into every single computer in the whole school, and it somehow even made it into some teachers' personal computer. They realized what had happened at the start of the next year. Needless to say, we didn't have computers for the first 5 months of that year
The thing is, the guy that did that was known as "the russian". I'm pretty sure him and Boris are related, guess being a tech savant runs in their blood
Maybe that's maksim
@@STRIGON_AB hold the phone. That's a good explaination
During IT classes in highschool the teacher used a program called something with Vision, where he could see all the screens of the students and see if they did what they were supposed to.
Once my friend and I were writing a report in the computer room, my friend decided to log into the teacher computer with his own account. He then had access to the Vision software and kept annoying me. I knew I didn't have admin rights, but I knew I could take the right from myself to open said program. So I did and from then on my screen was always black for the teacher and I said I don't know why. :)
Nah, that's just Elon Musk being rebellious.
@@playswithbladespuberty hits hard on 15😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fascinating how he remembers it.
Imagine Boris waking up and being like "I remembered that story from 20 years ago I'm sure my fans want to know about it".
And he would be right. :D
We do want to know about it, though! 🤣😁
Formative childhood memories. I still remember climbing those trees 20 years later
@@JohnSmith-NZ True. I still remember riding down the hill on large toy Tatra when I was little kid or rather the end of it. 😅
& we Do.
MORE! MORE!
Even at the age of 13, Boris was talented. Truly the greatest Slav to ever live.
pff i did it at 12. so im far superior.
then again my stepdad was a big shot in the industry and what i used according to him was basic kiddy shit.
we even laughed for hours until he said : im not teaching you any more ''malicious'' stuff.
true @scrollkeeper5272
@@miciso666sure buddy
lieraly born a slav hackerman
i misread as slave
Boris! I have a similar story! When I was in high school in the early 2000's, I was a couple points away from failing a math class because I had simply not wanted to do the massive amount of annoying and unnecessary homework this particular teacher forced on us. My test scores were great, so I knew what I was doing, I just resented having my time wasted by this teacher who valued sheer volume of silly make-work over practical tests of my ability. So I'm about to fail a class I should have passed easily, was going to have to re-take, and was NOT happy about it.
So, long story short I was also a smart little bastard, installed a key-logger on the teacher's computer during lunch break, got the password for her electronic grading program that was networked into the school system, and altered things JUST enough that I barely passed, but not enough to be noticeable. The teacher never did notice, and I passed with a D. Funny enough, since I never legally passed that math class I should never have legally graduated high school, and therefore my current computer tech degree isn't valid either, but at this point nobody can do anything about it. Stay cheeky! ;)
LMAO, but how do you manage to dowload a key logger?
@@taraskhan475 they probably left it logged on during lunch the student then downloaded and ran the logger off a stick or internet download in a hidden folder
@@taraskhan475 I had a buddy (works for Google now, REALLY smart guy) who had one on a disk. I don't know where or how he got it. This would have been around 2003 in the U.S., so they were readily available and you could download pretty much anything via the school's computer lab. Like Boris mentions in the video, the early 2000's were a hacker's playground because people just weren't as conscious about cybersecurity. The teacher in question only had her grading network login password protected, but not her PC itself, so all I had to do was insert the disk, transfer the log script to an unobtrusive folder, wait a day, come back and get the log file off her machine, and read through the log file until I found the username and password. How did I find just two small sections in all the other logged strokes? I did a text search using the first 4 letters of the teacher's last name. It's a no-no nowdays, but back then the teachers had all or part of their real last names as part of their network usernames. So finding "Jones13Alg" was obviously a userame, and what followed would be the password, naturally. And once I had her credentials by logging the keystrokes on her personal computer, I could log on to the grading network via any OTHER computer running the grading software in the school. So I could take my time messing around learning the grading software from the safety of the computer lab on lunch break without having to risk breaking back into places I wasn't supposed to be and getting caught.
Also high schools can be oddly petty about these things sometimes, even revoking diplomas decades after the fact
So, just make sure that this comment isn't in any way traceable back to you irl
being untraceable is impossible on the internet. but i doubt they'll read this comment so no big deal@@Xnoob545
I like to imagine picture Boris waking up, thinking “Oi cyka, I did side quest at 13! New story time for fellow comrades”
I remember once at my school the IT teacher decided to teach us the different parts that make up a computer, they disassembled a desktop to show us the individual parts like CPU, Ram..., By the time the lesson ended half of all the Ram was missing and 2 CPUs were no where to be found, my classmates stole them not even knowing what they were worth, it's funny because those were Pentium 3 CPUs (At the time those were top notch and very expensive) and they just played with them and tossed them in the trash, i managed to salvage one and sold it for 200 bucks to a local store i used to know the owner of, and that's how i became the richest kid in class...and Almost got expelled for stealing School equipment.
By the early 2000's, my bedroom was filled with old computers (hand-me-downs from family and friends) that I learned computers on. Everything from 8088's to a couple early Pentiums. By the time I was Boris' age, I was already building my own file/print servers running an academic licence of Server 2000 (my mom was going through her second round of college to go into IT, so she had a copy). I really regret getting rid of those IBM 5150 and 5160's that I had, because those are pretty valuable in retro computing these days. Fortunately, I kept my childhood Tandy 1000HX, which still works!
Did u ever screw around with a commodore 64?
in my freshmen high school year (so last year) we had a bunch of those older dell optiplex sff pcs that have 4th gen i5 cpus each. me and my friend smuggled about 6 4gb ddr3 ram sticks, 3 i5 4570s, and a few hard drives. the classes were small for that class and there were some spots that nobody sat in. i still don’t think anyone has figured it out that some of the pcs have been completely skeletonized of everything valuable.
i ended up building a few low end computers with those parts and some spare parts, and probably made about 750ish usd from the whole operation lol.
@@mexx69sooo... just stealing?
@@JukoYT yep
Had a buddy in high school who hacked into the computer system (this was back in 2005ish)to try and change a girl's grades he had a crush on to improve the grades. He did manage to change the grades, he didn't win her heart though. He went to "alternative school" (aka jail school for delinquents) til he graduated. He now works for the CIA in Washington DC.
crush turns man into cia operative
ask him if 9/11 was an inside job
Damn
Holy shit
breakup so bad he got turned into a secret agent 😭
This is like a grandfather telling his grandchildren about how he fought in the Somme. This was brilliant
Got a genuine laugh out of me
So true
I once have been trying to change my laptop's font and came across a script that would allow me to do that.
Then, one day i copied the file onto my tablet and brought it to school. I copied it onto the teacher's laptop in my class and have run the program, with the target font being *wingdings.*
It requires a restart for the change to take place, so it took half a week for it to be noticed. Due to that our history class have been canceled.
A couple days later when the issue have been fixed, my teacher asked me if that was me who did it. I got scared and quickly answered no.
woah!
my favourite font. wingdings!
Uff.. You got mexsweating at "wingdings"
I can just imagine the history teacher seeing the Wingdings when loading some kind of document and thinking that an alien martian has hacked the systems. Would make for an interesting semester lol
You've brought back sweet, sweet memories of computer hijinks from when I was in college around 1980!
A friend of mine once unleashed a thousand page word document consisting entirely of the word "giggity" to every printer in the entire school district because it was in huge font. It cost the district tens of thousands of dollars. He was promptly expelled.
You know, expelling a kid because you are too stupid to figure out how to kill a print command is some BS. They literally punished him for embarrassing them
LMAO
The actual fu-, Your friend is a menace
@@thedutchwolf9747 It was just meant to be the library printer, but it sent the job to other printers in the school when the ink ran out, and then somehow the whole district after those were also depleted.
@@SharpForceTrauma why was that even possible in the first place? It shouldn’t be like that. That was more poor IT management than the fault of your friend and shouldn’t expel him… Usually it should be so that for example every PC in the Libary can only access the library’s printer in the network and so on with an printer in the class…. But that sounds like that happened a while ago and nobody would have said that this could happen to anyone on accident and the IT was poorly configured.
"It was early 2000s, there was 30 computers total in the whole Eastern Block" got me laughing.
Edit: Mamo I'm famous!
As a Czech, I can confirm this situation is still ongoing
@@mattynek2as a Pole, I can confirm we made progress.
@@polishscribe674
Poland has as many computers as Germany. Stop lying. We are too western now.
@@modmaker7617 well, I said we made progress didn't I?
@@polishscribe674 There's a difference between "computer" and "toaster", though
Perfect, as expected. All true slavs are expected to be professional hackerman by at least age 15
Been playing online PC gaming since 1999. Can confirm. Since then it's hackers/cheaters have only gotten worse.
Fr bro i got a friend Egor and he does big ass scripts in uh C++ and he uses Linux like a chad
@@Beencheeling sorry for having to correct you, but C++ is a compiled language so you would call that a binary. a script is when you write it in an interpreted language
@@bedwar12494 Yeah, but still
I thought he would have written an epic program that would single-handedly crashed every computer
But he really edited a word file
Me 2 lol
@@gp37521 lol
@@Rezznar
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I thought that he was gonna put a virus in the file, and later that week, open that file from every computer. He didn't, but it was still funny!
@@gp37521 yep!
this was a great story when i took a computer class one day the teacher let us do whatever we wanted so everyone just watched youtube videos
after awhile the teacher was surprised no one caused a red screen which happens when you look up explicit content he explained that certain colors will trigger
the red lockout screen so three people started looking up orange and red cars and all three got red screened if it happens four times the teacher gets in trouble
so we stopped although he still had to explain what happened but being an awesome teacher he didn't rat on anybody
RESPECT
As an "IT guy" I can only imagine, that what Boris really did, did not crash anything. It might have been just a coincidence that at the exactly same time someone else did something serious, and as he mentioned that there were no restrictions on file permitions, hence the effect...
I was wondering if Boris & his buddy accessed the same file simultaneously, though that would likely only have crashed Word. One of the other kids might have been opening system files, in Word, to find out what was on them, then either saved the file or Word auto-saved on close. That would have fudged the network file
Maksim accidentally deleted something within the network that broke the whole system.
I thought since they had read/write access and he said the file was full of gibberish, that they edited some key file of the network as text file and overwrote it, thus crashing everything
Probably a data race on the server's network service?
Crusty old Windows network shenanigans. It was always a ticking time bomb back then. Nobody had to have done anything wrong or unusual for it to just randomly crap up.
I have a somewhat similar story, but it involves a company server, a remote location, and the forbidden access to Duke Nukem 3D on one of the PCs. And how I circumvented that restriction with a "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written," moment.
Deploying videos whenever you want to instead of becoming enslaved to a whimsical algorithm is the way to go. Kudos...I just hope you finally figured that out.
I did something similar with my mates in school. Except no crashing systems.
The boys (basically the collective of all male students in a class that basically forms a gang) were in the back and chilling when one of them went to the bathroom but left his laptop open.
One of my friends ran over and was doing something, and then ran back loosing his shit with giggles.
We all nearly died after he told us he set 2000 pages of this shirtless shrek meme we made earlier that day, to the library printer.
He came back, and it took our collective effort not to lose it, but things calmed down after 15 minutes with nothing.
Next minute, principle storms in and the IT admin behind her, calls out the kid and he walks out being confused.
Me and the boys are rocking in our chais trying not to laugh our asses off, before promptly loosing it once they left.
They had walked around the side of the classroom so we ran to the far right wall and looked over the loovers and listened in. The kid was being threatened with "severe consequences" and "academic misconduct". He pleaded innocent but was put on a final warning.
We all nearly fell off the benches as they came back to the class and we quickly got to our desks again, the kid came in and stared at us and we lost it.
"Aw you fuckin dickheads, the lot of ya." He yelled at us and the teacher quickly yelled at him for swearing, we lost it even harder then before as he sat beside us in the backrow.
Best memory.
Caught so off guard by the Aussie swearing 😂
Pfp checks out
This is the first video i watched on this channel, AND BORIS YOU MADE MY GODDAMN DAY, will binge every video
You will never be bored
A kid in our class thought "what is this switch on the back?" He flipped it and sparks and smoke came from the computer. We have 240V mains power here so computer power supplies have a switch to switch it to 110V or 240V. You can guess the rest.
25v on the 12v rail
Some of the computers at my high school were prone to being killed by normal USB stick, as smoke and sparks killed.
eyy i remeber my friend doing the exact same thing in school when we were like 10. just heard a bang and then the whole classroom smelled like firecrackers.
oh my god that happendd in our school as well, so much our teacher threatened to kill us if we wver touched that switch
thats how i unfortunately killed my first pc....
Plot twist: The Headmaster and/or IT teacher has been tracking the kids all these years, just waiting for one of them to confess.
Statute of limitations to the rescue! 😅
The crash happened when Boris was 13. Very likely he's over 23 now, so whatever happened would have happened over 10 years ago. While the times vary by jurisdiction, 10 years is a plenty of time for that. (I'm not a lawyer, just an individual using logic.)
Who said they were going to use legal means of getting him? Maybe they became master hackers and are now trying to sabotage his vodka cooled technology. I also don't know what the statute of limitations of whatever country he grew up in is.@@enginerd80
@@enginerd80crashing school system isn’t really illegal tho, the teachers probably thought Boris or his companions ran some weird capitalist virus or overwrote files with the intent to destroy, if Boris came clean saying he accidentally wrote in English they would most likely understand it was a mistake not active goal to crash or destroy.
@@enginerd80 Nah dude he will totally get expelled now.
yes
Another story time with Boris which can be made even better while drinking. 🍺
funny that your currency is called php in this context
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"Blin" means pancake. We sometimes use it as a substitute for curse words and that's why he says that
i remember taking a screenshot of the desktop with all icons, deleting them and using the screenshot as wallpaper.
then moving the taskbar to the top of the display, making it disappear and innocently telling the teacher "i think something is wrong" and watching him lose his shit.
good old times😂
lmao
Myself and friends were called up for similar hijinks, netsend and other network tools also booting from diskette.
For visual effect they had a file on each of us. Really felt like the interrogation in the matrix, perhaps they just watched it too.
All of us are now IT professionals one kind or another, all the teachers still struggle to change audio input source on teams.
We're not bad kids, we help them when we see this
I remember always being kinda freaked out about adults having to blame some kid or something when some technical problem came up which was often just some software bug or unreliability in the system, and most of us not even knowing this was the case and kinda internalizing that we did something wrong, even if it wasn't necessarily anybody's fault.
My favourite part was when Boris said "It's Borising time" and Borised around in the entire Computer lab.
same
Why is this meme coming back?
I dunno @@sinisterthoughts2896 but I'm here for it
@@sinisterthoughts2896because its back
Truly a Boris moment
headmaster : who did it?
boris : i'm a cold stone wall cy-
vadim : ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BORIS
I got into trouble at school because I clicked backwards on a network share enough times to show every PC on the domain (just a list view, I know now that there were possibilities for mischief if servers were discoverable, but at this point I was just a kid enamoured with being able to see every PC in one place). The teacher saw my screen and gave me detention.
Funnily enough, my first IT job was at the very same school years later, with the same network manager. As scary as he was when I was a kid, he was actually a really awesome guy.
Reminds me of 1st year in highschool when we would receive english assignments in Google docs and go over them as a class. Docs was still primitive at this time, and I noticed that the chat function didn't have a text limit. I found a website with the fall of the house of Usher by Poe and copied the entire thing to clipboard, then pasted it in chat to see what would happen. Everyone viewing the document had to restart their laptops and class was over. Unfortunately while the teacher had no idea there was a chat function, the IT person was competent enough to check the logs and inform them who dun it the next day.
Somehow the out of focus camera makes the story time even funnier, hah! Boris was too powerful for those old school computers lmaooo
the camera was drunk, is all
As a recently graduated computer science student working in software engineering, this was thoroughly hilarious, and reminded me how one of my friends in college realized he had some kind of read access on the network to everyone (including the accounts of professors). He was sent to IT security and they gave him a job
Let's be fair. Those computers probably had 200 mb of storage
Boris you are like a hug from my family. Rare but when needed it is given.
16 years ago, I was known for being a 9 year old kid who liked computers a lot. I regularly got pulled out of class to come help fix something. Even fixed my school's network once; they put me in front of their main server, some UTP cables were not seated correctly (teachers missed that, idk how), put UTP cables in all the way and it all worked again. :)
I just remembered: years later in grade 8, we found out what a fork bomb is. So naturally, with a few friends we put %0|%0 in a Batch script (don't ever run this, you'll regret it) and let it rip on some of the school's terminals. What we didn't realize was that all these terminals "lived" on a main server that was now doomed to crash, all of it's resources were rapidly depleting. It took barely 3 minutes and every. single. screen. in the school went dark. Uh oh, what have we done. All of us went back to class and never heard anything of it.
Yep...that's right up there with "did you check if it's plugged in?" & "did you try Rebooting?"
At my elementary school, we used to have virtual PCs running on thin clients, with each classroom having one "server". At some point I found out how to make batch files, so I started messing around. Eventually I created a batch file which kept on opening itself until it overloaded the memory. I didn't understand the way our network worked yet, so I accidentally crashed every computer in my class because I overloaded the server...
Are you talking Active Directory running on normal PCs, or actual "thin-client" PCs that have barely enough power to turn the lights on?
@@BlackEpyon Actual thin clients. The boxes you screw against the back of your monitor that are barely big enough to fit the connectors.
@@laurensnieuwland4657blud i bet you could do the same by opening 5 chrome tabs
You may have done a accidental DDoS on a school computer system.
You may have done a accidental DDoS on a school computer system.
My mother learned the ins and outs of MS DOS, back in the '80s, and was an early adopter of pretty much everything computer-related, including early internet Multi-User Dungeon games, (or MUD,) and PC's in general. Basically extremely early, text-based MMOs.
She told me of one time where she used the local connection to other computers to do something of a network hack, making every PC in the office display a message, saying something along the lines of "This PC will self-destruct in 20 seconds." After the 20 seconds were up, every computer shut down. Nothing else happened, though. Just a bit of silly office nonsense, and the PCs all ran normally afterward.
Ma was cool.
EDIT: Added some clarification.
My first computer experience was also with MS-DOS. I still have that machine too. A Tandy 1000HX, with DOS 2.11 baked into ROM, which was very convenient because that machine never came with a hard drive, and everything had to be run off of floppy.
Last year, I got ou IT class shut down for a year by changing all the shared files to say "HACK." And then IT was shut down for the rest of the year because they thought it was a real hack
"i was not dangerous, i was the danger"
-boris
The early 2000s were an amazing time for educational computer-ing in general. The teachers/admin knew it was important, knew that we should learn something about computers, knew that it wasn't all that hard to royally F things up, but also knew absolutely nothing about how to contain all of our curiosity and half-baked knowledge. For instance, I got a "broken" PC from school in the 5th or 6th grade that wouldn't successfully boot one year, brought it home (in a shopping cart I "borrowed" from the drug store), showed it to my dad. His first question was "did they try re-installing the OS?" Bewildered, I said I had no idea (bc I legitimately had no idea that could even be done). He came home the next day from work with an old copy of Windows 95 (they had recently upgraded to W98), a serial, and ten minutes later we had a new, fully functional PC.
In any case, I applaud Boris, his young-slav hacking aptitude, and his ability to remain silent in the face of dimwitted tyranny. Bonus points for being able to quickly ascertain that the comrade standing next to him was more likely to take the fall.
I remember doing shit like this when I was like 10 in computer lab lmao. As soon as I found out I had read and write privileges in the entire network, I would put weird shit in other kids folders
Back when I was in school, the students and teachers had physically separated networks, but students were able to see into each other's folders if they knew where to look. That was a major oversight I decided to fix after I graduated and stayed on to help with IT work. We ended up replacing the two servers with a single server, and merging the two networks. I developed a VBS script to automate the creation of student and teacher Active Directory profiles, create folders, and set permission hierarchies so that students couldn't read or write each other's folders (or even see them), but teachers could.
The classic highschool prank. I did similar things too lmao. I made a simple virus that spam message box of my principal name is gay to every computer at school lol. Resulting I get detention for a week lol.
How you do that?
@@Reyfan601 Send some emails. Not complicated at all.
@@attilavs2he said program that spams message boxes not emails
you can also do this just make sure you're in the same network as the other computers
open cmd
type msg * (your message here)
have fun
@@troxical3341 afaik msg doesnt work any more
Boris singlehandedly beat every hacker in movies
When you're such a good programmer that you can code a virus just with one sentence of plain text.
4:00 I love how Boris just went full American for one word.
oh my god, you're right!
Ok, I have an extremely insane conspiracy theory. I believe Boris moved away from his country at a young age and spent a bunch of years in an English speaking country. If you watch his really really old videos, he's actually easier to understand than he is now. I honestly doubt his name is even Boris, what with his extreme dedication to privacy. And why would Slavic kids in a poor former Soviet backwater speak English?
I have very little evidence for this, but little things like this very American sounding word just add up to something being fishy for me
@@skeetsmcgrew3282because it's just his youtube character, simple
@@LieutenantD4 Yeah, it wouldn't bother me per say if it were 100% an act. UA-cam has definitely created some stuff blurring that line between fact and fiction. But I would say he never openly suggests it's just a character so many people would likely feel very angry and betrayed were I proven right somehow.
Reminds me of when they put me in computer class, IT teacher hadn't taught me computer stuff before, but they knew me from other classes, and literally, in front of the whole damn computer class, just went ''everyone except Mirvra open up this document ok?'' then comes over to me and tells me ''alright so, you're already getting the best grade I can give in this class, so just play some games or something to kill the time ok? Unless you want to redo some stuff?''
Note, I am NOT some computer genius, most of you are way better than me. BUT, at the time most kids didn't know how to turn computers on, meanwhile I literally grew up in a room filled with 3 PC's running Windows 95/98. To me the idea we needed computer classes at all was confusing as heck, since I just assumed everyone had computers.
I got all the hand-me-down computers from family an friends in the early aughts. Everything from 8088's to early Pentiums, which I got to take apart and put back together. Best computer learning experience one could ask for, even if my room had become a computer graveyard.
@@BlackEpyon i was born in 96' and i have
a bunch of old computers that mainly use windows xp and vista and a singular computer that runs msdos
a dell computer corporation d333 produced in 1990
it has a intel 386 running at 16mhz
at the time the computer was created dell was about 6 years old
and now it's 30 something
still works
i figured out how antenna tv's work just to see that the computer still works
as the monitor that went with it is dead but seems to have some life in it still
i had to use a old black and white set to see the picture
also they still use the analog systems despite turning them off
i found a advert that says it has a max of 6mb static ram and 10mb dynamic ram
but it originally came with 1mb of ram
apparently the one i have originally cost about 5k
and was used primarily in cad software work
my maternal grandfather used to work in cad design back in the 70's and later upgraded to this computer of course he kept it and later gave it to me along with the original keyboard
@@slycooper1001 Born in '87. My first computer was my dad's Tandy 1000 HX. 8 MHz 8088. No hard drive, only dual 720k floppies. I still have it, and it still works.
This fun story deserves a full animation of it! You and your 4 other classmates were solid. Instead of usual punishment they could have recruited you guys instead.
legend says they still use the same computers to this day
Reminds me of the time the IT guy at my old high school crashed the entire network and delayed the start of classes for a week cause he installed a virus on the network that kept crashing the school network every time they did a fresh network wide reinstall of windows from the image....turned out the virus was on the image itself and was on there cause he made the windows image at home on a pc he didn't realize was infected. Best part? years later that same IT guy was one of my IT instructors in college. Go figure
you installed unpatched stalker games in all of them, "X-RAY ENGINE HAS STOPPED RESPONDING!"
If I didn't know my Best friend Dima well enough to recognize him even with a balakava on, and also know that my name isn't maxim, i would've thought you're telling my story of what happened in pc class i was in
I remember on our school network there was 1 folder on the network drive everyone had read/write perms to, so it was filled with games
Lmao, We all had tight sec on our systems back when I was in high school... However after going to Tech I ended up with a flashdrive and *It* I put games on... still have it to this day..
Powder Toy Portable was a goooood time waster... and also the entirety of Half Life Source.
There are 2 types of masters
1: The one that is good at everything and creates more stuff from one single thing
2: Boris
Only experience i had, related to someone “crashing” pc’s, was when someone took a monitor and broke the bathroom sink with it
Boris: "penis" if far too a vulgar word on school property.
Also Boris:
B A L L S
_b a l l s_
@KimKhan My thoughts, exactly 😅.
2:13 "barely ran Doom" ...shit man you didn't have to roast your old computer that hard
Those systems were out there.
You’re an amazing storyteller, Boris!
I'm glad you didn't give up. Glad to see you still going stronk
lmao something like this happened to me, the teacher was teaching us how to make folders but me and my friend already knew all that, so we kept deleting every folder anyone made in the drive so that they think they are doing it wrong, we accidentally deleted the folder that contained all our class's projects since the start of the year
Nicely done sir! reminds me of when I was 16 when I found out what an MP3 was. (mid 90s) So once I figured out how they worked, I started getting my friends to give me their CDs. I began to rip/compress them, and then stored them on my network drive. This way we could listen to them on any computer in the school. After some time, each computer class got a talking to about 'proper' use of the school network, and that 'only school assignments' should be stored on your network drive.
Then I got called down to the office. They weren't happy with the fact I chewed up all the available space on the server with these tracks and applications...:3
Reminds me of incident back in my highschool. Someone changed the setting of powersupply . Yes it is back in the day where there is a setting for voltage. The smoke smell like peanuts.
You'd be in Europe then? In North America, changing the voltage setting would just mean that it's only getting half the voltage it needs, and wouldn't even power on.
@@BlackEpyonI mean basically all of the world uses 240V not just Europe
As the former school IT guy, I can guarantee you that teachers never think about setting read/write permissions on student folders. In high-school, I was the one creating student active directory profiles, and linking them to the student's data folder, because the vice principle (who was supposed to be in charge of IT) never had the time. After I graduated, I stayed on to help with IT work, and developed a visual basic script to automate the process of creating the profiles and folders, and setting permission hierarchies so that students couldn't see into each other's profiles, but teachers could.
I did destroy an old class computer just by pressing enter a hundred thousand times.
Play harder, not smarter.
Never had i seen a storytelling channel that was diffused from the rest. Your story actually sounded REAL and BELIEVABLE, and i don't know, there's something about your voice that makes me want to just keep watching this
+1 sub, +1 like
I hope to see more stuff like this!
Immediate like and comment for Comrade Boris. The tales from the Motherland always warm the people's hearts.
I remember i crashed a pc by making every IT student's first time error with a loop. forgetting a 'break' on the loop.
I was 14 when I accidentally made a zip bomb. I was bored and got curious how far i can compress a file. Turned it into an exe file for instant unzipping thinking I'd easily come back to the file it contains. iirc another student from a different shift turned executed the zip file out of curiosity and crashed the computer. Thank goodness the lab's standard procedure for such things was to format the drive so I got away with it. I only became aware of the zip bomb later that school year when my professor told us about the new computer lab policies 😅
It makes things very easy for the IT guys when they have imaging software set up. We used Ghost for a while, until I got Windows Deployment Services set up. Where I had to spend MY time was repairing all the student laptops the kids kept abusing. Picking keys, wrecking the hinges, etc. I was in at least twice a week, and every time I'd walk in, there'd be a stack of laptops for me to fix.
Awesome format! Love it! I have been following your channel since before you started to feel like you were not happy, I’m glad it’s gotten better and I hope you keep doing whatever it is you want to upload, since those are always the videos with a soul, the videos I love to watch the most.
I had a similar experience in computer class...well the part where I already knew the basics while everyone else was struggling to open a program on the desktop itself.
Remembering a friend's story now about hacking school grades, kid meant to change all his grades to A's in the district-wide servers (California bay area, chances are these were some of the largest/most complicated school IT systems at the time-00's).
Kid accidentally changed ALL the kids grades to all As. I believe he also had some registry/log edits in place to scrub any recovery assets as well. He got very expelled, but i believe a teacher or parent got in contact to connect him with mentors.
For reference, district probably had ~50 schools of densely populated classes. Thousands of grades to recover. I believe the only saving grace was many hard copy grade logs still being around.
That's why my school had rotating backups that got swapped out every night.
What an absolute legend lol 😂
I love how this 'origin story of the local IT knower' happens everywhere 😂
I remember doing the same sort of thing back in school with some bat files. Later on, I switched schools and was more or less responsible for IT there as there wasn't too many of the teachers who even knew how computers worked. Good times.
Also, holy shit, Boris was hiding black bars behind his glasses all this time!
B A L L S
the Headmaster watching this
Lol😅
LOL... I had a job at an ISP helpdesk in college. I always had my badge because the job was two streets away from college so I just went there after classes. One day I got to class and the network was down. So I walked over to IT, and saw three guys staring at a screen, trying to figure out what was wrong. I flashed my (totally worthless, but impressive looking ISP badge) and fixed it. (They has swap, OS and storage on the same partition. Swap files had filled up the partition. Deleted old swap files, set a totally unused partition to swap space... beginner stuff.) AS thanks, from that moment on, any issue the system had was blamed on me, and I only survived there because through sheer luck I could prove each time I hadn't been in the building.
I love how the "post-soviet eastern Europe" countries are so similar between each other (and themselves through time) that this could have happened in any of them from the soviet era until today...
Slavs truly being either 0day experts or unable to turn PC on and there being nothing between is so funny sometimes.
Such a cute origin story, smol boris computer cheeky breeky
Bro all computer teachers are like this. Even today 2023. When I go to computer lab, the (very unfortunately) -1 IQ computer teacher always roams around and shows bossiness. And if one surpass him at coding, he just looks at the code for some time (understanding nothing for obvious reasons) and continues showing bossiness to the rest of the students, while completely ignoring the existence of that person.
And this is why you have to have one network for the school and a second separate one for IT students.
And also an antivirus that doesn't sh*t itself over a silly little .txt file.
Funniest Boris childhood story yet! 😂😂👍🏼👍🏼 You are an excellent storyteller, thank you for sharing!
And yes, instant messaging the other person next to you is a time honored tradition since even the 80s)))
'They got nothing on me cyka!' , lmao boris was born savage.
I love this guy's voice.
Kind of an odd tactic to tell someone they’re going to get expelled and expecting them to come forward after that… They could have just asked if anyone did something weird and asked for help fixing it, it’s not like it was really a malicious crime that required punishment.
Boris if you need some more ideas for videos look at the book "Homemade Russia". It's a bunch of weird home made things made in post soviet russia. Like one guy made a radio reciever by welding a bunch of forks together, following instructions from a magazine. Maybe you can make a computer from a bunch of old microwaves or something.
Modern microwaves have CPUs of tiny processing capacity so it's theoretically possible if you find out how to reprogram them, to make them run your own code. Maybe with a bunch of them stacked, you could run some sorta old OS
A computer no, but you can totally use old microwaves to make an EMP gun. I think Kreosan had a few videos where they did that.
Remembered doing some pc "hijacking" shenanigans back in 2015 or something, was about 14 years old that time.
In my high school ICT class, every table has a single system unit with 8 to 10 Thin Client and a special Windows 8 OS installed (RDP or sharepoint, dunno the name, forgot), and every table's system unit is linked to another system unit which the teacher uses.
IP addresses are predictable, and the user accounts in every system units were also predictable, and after some experimentations, me and the boys managed to log on PCs from a different table, lol. Then tomfoolery happened. We "hijacked" some PCs that schoolmates are using, then doing some trolling on their documents lmao, and even changing desktop backgrounds with random doodles from Paint.
Weeks later, someone snitched on me. Got scolded and told to fix my mess (which is just resetting user accounts, no big deal). I even made "secret" accounts in those PCs with names going by "System Update" or "Dell Bios Update"
Story time with Boris, this will be a good day.
“B a l l s”
-Young Boris
i would have probably expected boris to crash a truck into the IT room
Большое спасибо товарищ Борис! Родина вас не забудет !
This was a truly fascinating story, very fun to listen to, thank you Boris 😄 I managed to spread a file in school among my classmates that relentlessly opened and closed the CD-ROM hatch, it was hilarious while it lasted 😂
Boris was crashing every school computer at age 13 while I was still learning how to start a computer at age 13, absolute chad
I got kicked out of my schools IT class, not because I was some elite hacker like Boris, but because I couldn't figure out how to program shit. When everyone else had finished their first workbook exercises I was still on the first page. So they kicked my caveman arse into the wood and metal workshop 2 years before I was supposed to be there and I did fine.
the network crash might be the same reason for "Bush hid the facts","this app can break", "four tre tre fives" (4 letter word 3 letter word 3 letter word 5 letter word) when you save it converts to chinese letters (corrupts) and the network drive crashes (fixed in windows vista and later)
thanks for the tutorial! this will come in great use