I’ll start.

Laws:

Aggravated Digital Piracy. Downloading probably thousands dollars worth of content. yaRrr 🏴‍☠️ (btw, check out: [email protected] it’s blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

I flew a drone without FAA LAANC approval, and beyond “line of sight” rules. (I checked air radar online, there were zero flights near me at such low altitudes that I was flying my drone, so zero safety issues)

I sent a string of encrypted text over Ham Radio bands as a “proof of concept” for a off-grid comucation method. (Rattlegram is an app on Android and iOS, that can convert text to audio; Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) is an open source encryption app that can encrypt a string of plaintext into a string of ciphertext (this app is called “Paranoia Text Encryption” on iOS), you can copy-paste this ciphertext into Rattlegram and sent it over Ham Radio, then reverse the process on the other end. Voila, encrypted off-grid communications) Encryption over Ham Radio is illegal, but whatever lmfao, fuck the FCC.

A lot of jaywalking, because I was feeling suicidal and didn’t care. Never got a fine lol.

School rules:

Probably the most common is the no-phone rule. (don’t worry, my education was fine, didn’t miss anything important)

My high-school (in the USA) made you wear a tie, I often don’t until staff tells me to, then proptly take it off when they are out of sight. (It’s so fucking unfortable) Idk why they even have dress codes when my school was so “ghetto” af.

Workplace:

That no-phone rule again 🙃

Oh, I used a pen and wrote marxist shit on the bathroom walls at my workplace (I’m not even a marxist, I just wanna fuck shit up). Never got caught. Statute of limitations probably expired by now, can’t even sue me if they now found out who did it.

Websites: A lot of Terms of Service. A lot of community rules in forums.

What rules have you broken? 👀

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Software piracy in terms of what would have been the longest sentence.

    I almost cut a mechanics fingers off after he used an emergency stop as a LOTO. I would Probably not be guilty in the eyes of law or workplace safety rules but sure would have felt the worst if something bad happened.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    12 hours ago

    When I was a toddler, and my parents took me shopping, as soon as I got anywhere near the part of the store/shop that had bread, I’d always end up quickly stealing a baguette, opening it, and start eating it. By the time my parents paid for everything the baguette was nearly non existent. Of course my parents paid for the baguette in the end, but I’m pretty sure it’s against the rules to steal and eat one and then force your parents to pay for it. Little old toddler me didn’t care about the rules!

    I still absolutely love baguettes.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    20 hours ago

    The worst thing I’ve done is warn people not to admit to their crimes on a public internet forum.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      22 hours ago

      I mean… don’t announce that you’ve embezzeled millions of dollars from a big corp, nothing like that lol. That’d get you in real trouble.

      Nobody cares about pirates, they’d have to arrest the whole country.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Initiated a cyber-attack on the electronic infrastructure of a right wing extremist group, taking them offline.

    Back in Ye Olde BBS days, there was this group called “Oregons Citizen Alliance” run by this asshole named Lon Mabon.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Citizens_Alliance

    https://ballotpedia.org/Lon_Mabon

    https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/10/04/lon-mabon-terrified-portlanders-with-ballot-measures-but-now-sells-them-gourmet-salsa/

    Everybody had a BBS in those days and the OCA was no exception. But their BBS had an interesting “feature”.

    You could upload files to it, but if the file wasn’t .ZIP, it would uncompress it and re-compress it as .ZIP.

    All you had to do was find a virally infected .ARC or some other format, upload it, and the BBS would infect itself.

    BBS was offline after that.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    22 hours ago

    double checks statutes of limitations

    Probably smoking weed or destruction of property.

    I used to run a socialist news letter in HS. My distribution was like… one to my friend group, one to a cool teacher, and one to someone I had a crush on. Clearly it had higher readership than NYT.

    In my workplace I’ve got ridiculous seniority so I try and revoice concerns from more junior people. I’d be pretty okay with getting a nice big severance payout so why the fuck not. I also try to be a voice of reason when it comes to AI hype.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    21 hours ago

    I’ve illegally entered Canada several times.

    There is a spot my dad and I used to go fishing. It is a large lake where one side is US and the other side is Canada. On the Canada side there is a dockside store where you can buy beer, maple syrup, and souvenirs. We stopped by the store every year before camping on the US side of the lake. One day we found out there is a little hut where we were supposed to stop first to check in with customs before going to the store. Oops.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      19 hours ago

      We invaded America. By accident.

      There we were, traipsing along the border as part of basic training, and someone veered left. Rifles, green clothing, black boots, melon buckets. The border is really thin and a swath was well-trimmed, so it was prime walking route, and then we went to the wrong treeline. I mean, it coulda happened to anyone.

      It’s just amazing how excited sergeants can get over the smallest of mistakes.

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      21 hours ago

      we used to go back and forth all the time on fishing trips up north. even bring back produce (wild berries picked from the islands on the other side) without going through customs. we always did have both fishing licenses, though. catch both limits that way, regardless of where on the lake you got 'em.

  • CanaryWhiskey@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    18 hours ago

    magnetic card cloning (fairly simple) and gaining access to some card controlled areas. Got caught though and had to attend a meeting.