Some of the rubbish he comes out with that he's learnt in IT class at school is frightening. His idea of how servers and internet connections are made as taught at school compared to actual reality was one cause for concern.
He'll tell me that his teacher says that something isn't impossible and that he's asked his teacher who's said I'm wrong, so I say, "come here" and <Click>, <Click>, <Tyoe>, <Type>, <Click>, <Click> later, and behold, the impossible has just been performed!!
That's why I keep telling him that is why I'm an electronics engineer and not an IT teacher. I know a hell of a lot more about computers. I fail to find them exciting after so many decades of exposure.
When I was a mature student at university, back in 1996, old Mac Plusses were being used as doorstops to the labs and computer suites on the engineering floor.
There were two nteworks at the time in play, the PC one and the Mac one. The PC one was the one that was always offline being fixed or crashed. I signed up for the Mac one from day one and it ran faultlessly for the 3 years I was there. A hell of a lit of students defected and discovered Macintoshes in the forst 6 months of the year.
Needless to say, I hacked the system and stored all backed up work on every machine and server in the engineering house using an encrypted archiver and then making the resultant file a hidden *.DLL stashed inside a ligitimate programme. No system has any defence from having software and licences cloned by an archiver package and someone who knows how to use one. Hence why they're banned from use inside any government facility, especially millitary. I demonstated the powers ARJ to a security manager at an MOD place once and he was horrified how it sought out and cloned a list of files within 10 seconds from the network without ringing any bells or whistles.
Anyone else ever hacked systems using archivers, etc., just for research experimentation purposes, of course??
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