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Discussion on: What's the best or nerdiest prank you have ever pulled?

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arjuniyer1978

It was back in 1999, our webdev team alone had internet access and proxy password was confidentially kept within their team.

We(desktop application development team) built a small application, sent it over on email through testing team, when they opened it, it prompted for the proxy authentication, looking exactly like the proxy window, after accepting password, it would write it the shared network...we waited for 5 hrs first day after mails went to the entire group, finally someone entered it and we got it!
This was very successful after every password change, We didn't tell them how we kept getting credentials, kept blaming that we have contacts...:)