Can I get caught?

[tlarkin]

It's hilarious, but I have to say I'm not surprised.

Technically since OS X is Unix and Unix is so bad ass, I can control the camera from the command line. I could feasibly send some unix commands via script or over ssh or whatever that could turn it on and take pictures....

I of course don't have the hours that would take to fiddle with it, but it could be a pretty funny prank

 

[Cromewell]

If all of them had a direct connection to the internet that means that every client machine in your network would have a public IP, which I know for a fact is never the case.

Me and my 10.10.*.* IP address agree.

We have some paranoid users at my work that put tape over the built in web cam in their laptops because they think we spy on them through the web cam, LMAO.....

Were I used to work we had some Dells that had an issue with USB mouses, the pointer would occasionally skip off to some extreme end of the screen. One guy I worked with was convinced that this was actually the company taking a screenshot of what you were doing.

 

[tlarkin]

Well I have fought tooth and nail with users before over control of the mouse so that could have been true. It gets fun when I use the say command.....

Of course I never cross the line, but I do like to have a bit of humor when I work.

 

[Cromewell]

True enough it could have been but when I hooked a PS/2 mouse up it never happened.

Of course I never cross the line, but I do like to have a bit of humor when I work.

You have to, you'd go insane if you didn't

 

[tlarkin]

If you have access to a mac, you should open up terminal and play around with the say command. It can get quite fun.

If a user is not letting me control their desktop I will send a say command, and usually add in something like this

say 'Please run the update on your computer, and obey the robot god!'

harmless fun if you ask me.

 

[Respital]

Does the say command work on PCs?

If so can you provide an example?

Thanks!

 

[Cromewell]

Does the say command work on PCs?

Yes and no. It can easily be disabled but 'net send' can send messages to networked Windows machines.

 

[tlarkin]

Yes and no. It can easily be disabled but 'net send' can send messages to networked Windows machines.

Well the Mac version is text to speech, so it actually talks to you, and the command line is never shown the user doesn't know that I am sending them a command.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

My school and last job all directly connected to ethernet ports in the walls.

*ahem* orly? Like 0mega said, those ethernet ports somehow end up being connected to a router through which all the internet traffic goes...

They don't usually go through the server, but they go through a firewall which keeps records of website hits, internet traffic per device, history, etc.

I would've thought the traffic usually goes through some sort of proxy... it does in our school at least. Oh, well...

 

[Geoff]

I would've thought the traffic usually goes through some sort of proxy... it does in our school at least. Oh, well...

It was just your phrasing, when you say "go through" It leads me to believe that you meant all the traffic physically goes through the server before it reaches the internet, usually you have your servers on a switch or router which then go out to the internet. You don't want the network to completely shutdown if the server that all network traffic went through died.