What's your worst computer "crime"?

[Redman]

We all have our moments of doing something that is ... well ... naughty.
What is your worst crime?

Note: intended in good fun of course

My worst crime is that I once bough an official (OEM) Windows 2000 package.
Yes, I know ... but it was before I saw the light in 2003

[MikeTbob]

Wayyy back when Moby Dick was a minnow, I was young and dumb, didn't know nothing about the Internet. Well I decided I was going to try be a hacker. So I downloaded all the crap that I thought I needed, SANDRA, SATAN, blah blah blah, well I was at a friends house when I did this, and needless to say his ISP caught me doing all these port scans (I think I was reported) and in the end they ended up terminating his service.

Oh, and if purchasing MS products is/was a crime, ya'll need to lock me and throw away the key.

[RobinVossen]

I think that is my Project Odin.
I wrote a Trojan Horse that did work on the ICMP Packages.
I never did release it though.
Also I did well do some Bruteforcing on Passwords and well I kinda did lots of that stuff.
Since well I am a Student Security Engenier

[fingal]

I stole a document from someone's personal network drive. My motives were good (trying to defend someone) but in any case it was an encrypted file, and I gave up trying to crack into it. Looking back, I wouldn't do it again.

[techieMoe]

My worst crime is that I once bough an official (OEM) Windows 2000 package.
Yes, I know ... but it was before I saw the light in 2003

If the worst thing you did was buy a Microsoft product, you're pretty squeaky clean. I actually liked Windows 2000 Pro. Much better than 98 and Me (which were out at the same time). Of course, I never *bought* the thing. Read what you will out of that.

I also played with XP a few months before it was released...and I wasn't a beta tester. Then there's the various "programs" I "procured" at some shady LAN parties. I will of course deny any of this should push come to shove. All the related equipment and discs have since been destroyed, in pleasant little light shows with a microwave.

I may or may not have been involved in an incident regarding a school teacher's computer and some hard drive formatting utilities. The same is true regarding a very old PC at a previous job I had that "mysteriously" started going haywire and had to be replaced with something newer.

I also know nothing about a website that was started while I was in high school that had repostings of entries from the Anarchist's Cookbook. I may or may not have been responsible for disseminating various musical tracks from certain popular artists from 1995-1999.

I know nothing about a certain file that ended up on someone's desktop after they stupidly shared the entire C drive. It could have been worse, which is what the file said. It seemed to get the message across.

I may or may not have had an interesting high school and college experience.

[carlosponti]

my worst crime is that i used windows!

[genesus]

I may or may not be guilty of the exact same things that TechieMoe may or may not be guilty of. The same things that anyone who went to University and used computers extensively during the last 10 years may or may not be guilty of .

Also, I've been reading alot about DDoS lately, and pretty soon I may or may not be guilty of that

[Redman]

If the worst thing you did was buy a Microsoft product, you're pretty squeaky clean.

Heh heh ... as if I would confess real crimes here

Of the fun things I never did was hack into the ("secured") mainframe at college we only could use for schoolwork/text editing/printing/etc. When the teacher was out for an hour ("teaching another group, I'd be back in an hour") I did not slip a special floppy in and arrange things in such a way I could play F-16 Combat Pilot .... nope, wasn't me

[ryokimball]

Well, I've never paid for... well, much of anything really. 'Cept music. And a video game or two. The Windows things I've had have all been legal, but it might not have been a legal installation due to certain loss of long alphanumeric thingamagiggers. I once crashed a school computer so the teacher could get a new one --but he asked me to do it. Literally.
Umm... way back in the day (7th grade, I think) I was not allowed to use ANY school computers because I fixed something I shouldn't have fixed (never understood that; didn't keep me, anyways).
But honestly I can't think of anything unjustifiable (you can download songs if you have legally purchased them before, right?...). At least, nothing I will ever fess up to....
Oh, I "accidentally" downloaded the Simpsons movie in German, as soon as I got broadband, but that was just an "OMG, is it THAT easy to do?!" kind of thing.

[cousinlucky]

Being a computer illiterate I never paid for the XP version of windows that was on my computer when I bought it. I removed most of the programs because I did not want them. I bought and added " Easy Office " instead of using the microsoft office.

Looking back I suppose a lot of my former computer problems were caused by microsoft's " phone home " programs reporting that my computer was " off of the leash ".

The good thing is that I was forced into using Linux to use the Internet!!