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Hi guys.
I am writing this because I urgently need all the help I can find.
I am being accused for trolling the school's website.
I have been doing some research and if I am correct, you can only be certain that a person has been doing, in this case -the trolling - if ...well if that persons admits it or gives himself away or maybe if they track the ip address back.
I wanted to know, if (assuming that the ip address method is correct) doing this tracing goes against privacy rights or not.
Please help me, because if I don't find a way around this I won't be able to graduate, thanks

You should probably try to work this out with the administration. If you're being wrongly accused of this, then you should plead your case and an IP trace would hold no danger for you.
I don't think IP tracing is against any privacy policy, especially in schools. Schools have extra permissions in certain cases, such as risk of weaponry or suspected drugs, that allow them to search lockers, bags and purses if the conditions for a search are met.

thank you very much. It seems my only option is to explain that it was just a misunderstanding.

Best of luck, cachiporrin!

Pretty much. Honesty is the best route, most of the time.

Absolutely.

Certainly in cases where you aren't guilty.

Although if you are guilty...

Hush, let us not speak of that

I did something similar at my old school. Less severe, but still. They had a network drive for students to back up their schoolwork on(from the school laptops, which students "rented"), and every morning, everyone in the entire school re-copied all of their faggot files, wasting shitloads of time and bandwidth. I though I could do better, so I wrote a simple batch file to run in the background and auto-backup new or changed files. The tech team at that school, called the "Swap Shop" found this, assumed I was making a virus or something(to be fair, I had "hacked" into the local administrative account on the school laptop before), so they deleted it. I remade it, and a few more times they deleted it, so I remade it and titled it "AUTO BACKUP DO NOT DELETE," but again, the idiots deleted it. I got angry at them, and made a hundred or so copies all over the place titled "The Swap Shop People are Retarded." They couldn't do anything to get me in trouble, but they did take the time to delete every copy, and disable the ROBOCOPY command I was using. I did install some remote control software on a bunch of other kids' laptops, and I trolled the fuck out of them(they found out it was me pretty quickly, but I still trolled them), but I was never caught doing this.

Tl;Dr I messed with the tech team and didn't get in trouble. Trolling the school website should get you a nice long detention at most, causing you to not graduate is ridiculous, and you should probably go to a different school as soon as possible, regardless of whether or not they let you off. If you did troll it, tell us, we'll still help as much as we can, and I will probably find it amusing. I'm not accusing you though, just wondering.

Shouldn't you have like, you know, explained to the derptastic swap team that you had automated a tedious process?
Ah well, who the fuck cares anyways.

But yeah. If you did it, telling us will likely only result in lulz and shared internet stories that we can all look back. If they do prevent you from graduating, as adwuga said, find a more reasonable school.

Korban3 wrote:Shouldn't you have like, you know, explained to the derptastic swap team that you had automated a tedious process?
Ah well, who the fuck cares anyways.

It was my last year there, I thought I had might as well just insult them.

But back to the matter at hand:

I enjoyed adwuga's story so much that I decided to share my own.
A couple months ago I very nearly got in serious trouble for decrypting the passwords to every computer on my school system's network. The only reason I did it was because I needed administrative rights to fix a computer at my internship, but of course thats no excuse to do illegal things. My friend got overexcited and told too many people about it, so I got to have a nice chat with the administration. Luckily, the people higher up in the IT department didn't seem to care, so I got scot free.

I wish my school was that nice...




I would DESTROY them!

I used to check the desktops of school computers for poorly written papers and then correct the whole thing and lock it after changing the title to something like "I R A STOOP ED"

That is literally the nicest way of insulting someone ever.