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Back in the day I made a near-perfect copy of the RM (UK school IT supplier) login page in Visual Basic 6, and had it run on computers with RunServices registry entry. Had a team of mates with custom floppy disks going around installing it on as many PCs as we could. It would log the supplied user/pw to disk, then display the "wrong password" error, then quit, then exposing the real login screen.

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What did you do with the passwords you captured? Sounds unethical... You'd definitely be facing criminal charges if you got caught doing this today I'd imagine.

> Criminal charges

Heh, I don't think so. Teachers don't like to send their pupils to court for silly things. They'd just get told why not to do it again and probably get some detention and stuff.

At a uni, the consequences might be more severe.

Yeah it's not like you did anything illicit like change grades or wreak havoc on the network by mass formatting computers, unless you intentionally left out those parts ;)

As long as you do not start a thermonuclear war with Russia you should be ok.

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