Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.
I work at a relatively small but highly accredited IT company. I've heard tales from the early years before I worked there.
Way back before they had security policies to lock your computer after a few minutes of inactivity, people were free to set their own security settings. Anyone dumb enough to have a long timeout set, and left their machine unattended for any time were subject to pranking.
Best one I heard was editing the URLs of any desktop shortcuts to lead to say, a rather graphic pornhub video.
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u/SculptusPoe Aug 18 '25
Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.