mazzanet's Lair

Oh what a long time it's been. The last few weeks have been somewhat chaotic due to all the recent 'incidents' among other things. I haven't really found time where I could be bothered enough to post.
Now to the 'incident'.
On the Monday following my previous post, there was a meeting with the Senior Master, Sys Admin, Deputy Head (who was labeled 'neutral' and just wrote everything down), me and my mum. The meeting was basically to get the full story on what happened and to listen to the sys admin make up some bullshit laws. At this stage, he had no hard proof that it was me who even did anything. He also decided to involve some random other people (who had nothing to do with anything) and claiming they 'taught' me how to do it. I was told that other people will be interviewed and I'll have another meeting later in the week.
Everything seemed fine until Wednesday. Completely randomly, I was told to go to my Head of House's office when the day was about to begin. Upon arrival at his office I was told to get into the room next to it (but not visible from) and to stay there for the next 2 hours. I was literally 'locked and left' and wasn't informed of the reason I was there. After the 2 hours I was 'allowed' to have some recess before having another meeting. Apparently the purpose of this room-keeping was to 'stop me talking to others'. The reason for this was because the words of a teacher friend in an email showing their point of view were twisted to make it sound against me. I still don't get that. In the meeting, the sys admin's 'proof' was finally shown. Screenshots of the Documents And Settings folders on the servers. That's it. I had to really try to not burst out laughing. Also, my 'punishments' were handed down (which were decided by the sys admin, mind you). Banned from Theatre Tech, banned from the network until I'm back in Theatre Tech and rejected from getting merit certificates (and possibly/probably colours). Naturally I was very pissed off at this, and still am. After having a meeting with the head of Theatre Tech (on my own accord), who even said he felt the team is now weaker since I'm not in it (but can't do much about it), all I can say is that I hope something at Speech Night (big event I'm missing out on working on on the last day of the term) goes drastically wrong so I can point and laugh at the school/powers above/sys admin and tell them to go fuck themselves. I also have some emails from the sys admin to a friend he randomly tried to involve that is almost completely filled with bullshit. I might put it up publically sometime.

On other notes, a friend is currently in hospital with an exploded appendix, I visited her last night and she looked very dead but alive (she was on a morphine drip for a stage too, mmm morphine), exams start tomorrow and work's Christmas promo is starting today (85,000 flyers arrived today, in boxes of 500, yay.).

So look after yourselves, watch your mouths, stand for what you believe, do the best you can in exams and have a great night.

Really long time, no post. I've been tied up in heaps of stuff lately though.
Straight into it...
Last Sunday was the annual school fair. I arrived at a nice and early 9am to start setting up. Set up went pretty well, a few speakers around the place on hacked up wireless links. The best highlight of the day for me was the great food in the international food stalls section as well as spending the finale of the day with friends. Such a fun day.
Tuesday was jam-packed as well, the last social for the year. Rather than being organised by the SRC, this was organised by a group of friends who are going to Borneo, with all the money being fundraised. As usual I did all the music. The choice of music seemed to be good, though for next time I need to lay off on the trance.
Wednesday was also busy, Bendigo Cup day. I spent the morning and a bit of the afternoon at a friend's place at their birthday party. After the party (about 4:30) I went along to the cup to hang about with some other friends until about 7. A fun, tiring and hot day.
The rest of the past week was filled with the usual classes.
Now for my er dilema.
After numerous discussions I decided to tell someone high up about all the security flaws in the school network. On Thursday I had a casual chat to the Headmaster who looked shocked that there were problems and told me to see the Senior Master about it. So at lunchtime I had a meeting with him and gave him a live demonstration showing that anyone could get full administrator access very easily. He thanked me, while looking shocked at the password (quote: "123456? That's not a bloody password!"). After school I visited the sys admin and told him about all the other flaws, he thanked me and gave me his standard lecture saying that I wouldn't get away with it at uni - which he's already given me at least 3 times before. So everything seemed cool at the end of the day.
What I didn't tell anyone about was the account I created called 'davidhasselhoff' as a proof-of-concept that the account I found the password to was indeed an admin account.
On Friday, I checked all the flaws I found and they were *shock horror* fixed. In addition to that, davidhasselhoff's account was disabled - but not deleted. On later discussions I found out that the admin had (finally) found the account. At this point, my parents (who were working at the time) received a phone call from the Senior Master saying that I had 'hacked the network', that there will be a meeting on Monday with them to apparently discuss 'my future at the school' and that the school may think about getting the police involved.
After a stack of frantic discussions with various sources who are knowledgable in the area, I confirmed that what I have done, as far as the law is concerned, is indeed not hacking. I also had a discussion with a friend who is the sys admin at another local school (much bigger than mine. This particular school also happened to be the school mine 'steals' most of the IT setup ideas from, but sets them up quite badly) who also happens to be a friend of our sys admin and he said the whole situation is bullshit and he'll do what he can to help me out.
Moral of the story: If you find a flaw on a network and the sys admin hates you, don't tell anyone about it.

I also had to sprint 1.2km from home to the bus stop in 2 minutes first thing (without breakfast) in the morning today to get to work. My legs are sore.

Sleep well and look after yourselves (and don't dig yourselves into deep holes...).

Last editted: 00:14:55 Sun 13 Nov 2005

Another week goes by, and what a semi-crap week it has been. Summer seems to have arrived a bit earlier, the last few days have been scorchers - today hit 31C.

Nothing much of particular interest has happened over the past week. Thursday and Friday consisted of the usual classes. Saturday was spent working in the morning and then dashing up to Discovery at our 10th birthday celebrations. For the whole day admission was free, with a free barbecue lunch. When I walked in the door at 12:30, boy was it packed. I nearly had to fight through the crowd. Throughout the day we had the Mayor, random concillers and ministers from parliament, WIN TV, KLFM and various other 'important' people. At the end of the day we calculated that we had over 1200 through the doors and had over 300 people at any one time. It was very chaotic but worth it, we're hoping for a few new partnerships out of it.
Sunday was also spent working. Monday and Tuesday consisted of the usual classes, Tuesday being exceptionally hot.
Today I got around to fixing David Hasselhoff's home directory and mailbox. David Hasselhoff is a new user I have created on the network as a proof of concept of the complete lack of security as well as for humour and for the fun of it.

I could ramble on a bit longer but I really need more sleep, especially in this run-down state.

Good night and look after yourselves.