Minh Duong: The Big Rick — How I Rickrolled an Entire School District and Got Away With It
A DEF CON 30 talk about a massive rickroll prank that spread across six high schools and more than 11,000 students in suburban Chicago.
A story of how boredom and curiosity escalated into a district-wide operation — and what it reveals about the security of school networks. Vulnerable networked projectors and poorly configured IoT devices became an improvised botnet, enabling coordinated control at scale. The talk also covers the operational security measures that helped avoid detection and disciplinary consequences.
A story of how boredom and curiosity escalated into a district-wide operation — and what it reveals about the security of school networks. Vulnerable networked projectors and poorly configured IoT devices became an improvised botnet, enabling coordinated control at scale. The talk also covers the operational security measures that helped avoid detection and disciplinary consequences.