• JoshCodes@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

    • fill a word document with nonsense
    • open word document in hex editor
    • corrupt file through some means she googled
    • submit the file to our submission system
    • wait for teacher to open the file, get ‘corrupted’ message

    She’d do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she’s in infosec.

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      Our IT teacher knew if we did something late because he would look at when the file was last edited. We had a great IT teacher that also wanted to teach us how to think instead of just teaching basic word and excell.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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      • fill a word document with nonsense

      I mean this is like 90% of college even when you’re not gaming the system