Back in college, the old AppleTalk protocol did auto-discovery, so you could open up the Chooser and see virtually all of the Macs on campus. A lot of people didn’t understand network security, or were lazy, so they’d share their drives with guest access.
This was way too easy, so for maximum deviousness and WTF’ery, I’d just make edits to a file here and there.
Reminds me on the days when Windows XP home edition had an Administrator account without a password and also had the drives shared by default. That got really stupid when the cable company in our country didn’t provide a router so a lot of home PC’s were connected to the Internet with a public IP without any protection.
So it was really easy to search through the IP range of the cable provider and have direct access to pretty much every file on such home machines.
Back in college, the old AppleTalk protocol did auto-discovery, so you could open up the Chooser and see virtually all of the Macs on campus. A lot of people didn’t understand network security, or were lazy, so they’d share their drives with guest access.
This was way too easy, so for maximum deviousness and WTF’ery, I’d just make edits to a file here and there.
Reminds me on the days when Windows XP home edition had an Administrator account without a password and also had the drives shared by default. That got really stupid when the cable company in our country didn’t provide a router so a lot of home PC’s were connected to the Internet with a public IP without any protection.
So it was really easy to search through the IP range of the cable provider and have direct access to pretty much every file on such home machines.