Fun Hacking Experiences

[Doc Tinker]

Tell us about your most enjoyable computer hacking experience.



Doc

 

[bighammer]

I had a computer class in high school. The teacher was sort of a butthead and had singled me out to pick on. We each had accounts on a computer system and I found out he had one where all the grades and attendance records were kept. I happened to be looking over his shoulder one day as he was logging on... ... A few things changed for the better of course, and I wrote a simple program (endless loop) that would fill the screen with something not so nice about him. (can't remember it exactly--couldn't say it here anyway) Escape key and control C were both disabled too. I wish I could've been there to see his faceOo. Oo. Oo.

 

[lgibson]

How about taking an old Commador 64 computer and hooking it up through the VCR and change the fbi warning. No I never did this but I rented a movie that is was changed. It read " This is the F^%#ing FBI and if you try to tape this sorry a$$ movie we will come and kill your dumb a$$. " It went on and on. The FBI came and checked it out and said it was done with a Commador 64. The never found out who did it, but it was a few movies altered that way. Seem to me they would have only had to check and see who rented them.

 

[bighammer]

I forgot my latest hack--BOMBing my TV.



There was always too much red when adjusted to proper saturation. The solution was to go with less color, and shift the tint towards green. I soldered together a simple circuit to interface my laptop to my Mitsubishi 65" set. A few changes in the EPROM changed the "locked out" color settings. Now the color is incredible. Oo.

 

[mjendrejcak]

My boss just completed a cisco switch and router class at the local high school. He told me that I was no longer in charge of any cisco device in any of the offices, he would handle everything. I asked him how a one week class compared to years of everyday experience, no reply. So after he changed the configuration, passwords and rebooted in the middle of the day the VPs decide to have a discussion with him while I hacked back in and rebuilt everything. Just to have a little fun with him I added a VBS script to play ‘just the good ol boys’ theme and and a couple of porn sites to his roaming profile. Should be interesting in his demo tomorrow.

 

[JConley]

One time I hacked into the TDR website and posted off the wall questions using Docs handle Funny part is no one noticed

 

[QRTRHRS]

Not truly hacking but...

Pity the poor shmuck at work who forgot to log off from using a public computer. Someone (never me of course ) would use their mail account for all sorts of devious activity.

 

[dseabaugh]

Way to go Mjendre! Wish we could all have a link to watch the fun It is really tough to beat experience.

 

[dseabaugh]

It never fails to amaze me the amassed skills of the collective tdr group! As a group there is almost nothing that could not be accomplished. Bhammer just got me in trouble with my wife (so what else is new?) She is trying to get me out from in front of TDR to hook up the modutator and cables so she can watch movies from her frizbees on all 4 televisions in the house

 

[Todd G]

Way back in the dark ages when I learned to program in COBOL on punchcards we had to submit our cards to a computer operator that would feed them into the mainframe and run the program. We would then get a printed output of the program and the results( or errors ) from a wicked fast line printer. I wrote a micro-program with no name on it that would just do an endless-loop of form-feeds.



You should have seen how fast those sheets were spitting out of that printer. They were going 10 to 15 feet through the air. The best thing was the operator had his back to the printer and let it go for about 5 seconds before he cancelled the job. It used a BIG box of paper and it was in a pile about 4 feet high all over the computer room. Of course I was just far enough away to see the results and not get caught. Oo.

 

[PRout]

Be careful what you admit to. . some people take this stuff very seriously. .



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[Steve St.Laurent]

I plea the 5th. Sure had a lot of fun when I was a kid . . . . One of the four fourteens (AFAIK the first hackers to ever get busted) was one of my best friends. I was at his house when the FBI came a knockin !