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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Lame Newbie
Article: 7891 of alt.hackers From: dilatush@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Todd Dilatush) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Lame Newbie Date: 27 May 1995 16:26:49 GMT Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA Lines: 42 Approved: Wanna bet? Message-ID: 3q7js9$3lt@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
test@cam.ac.uk wrote: : Is it really this easy? If so, what are the legalities of doing this? If my : sysadmin find out, what can they do about it? It is this easy. As to the legalities... I dunno. Since you didn't try to impersonate anyone, and you used the system as it was meant to be used (at least in the case of how _this_ newsgroup is supposed to be posted to). What your sysadmin can do is another matter. Every site seems to have a few people with the attitude 'if you know how to do it we don't want you here.' It's possible that if such a person is in a position of power, they may be annoying. However, I doubt your sysadmin will see anything wrong with your posting here. They're more likely to post a followup complaining about your lack of an ObHack. Speaking of which, here's my ObHack. Kind lame this time. Well, actually, it's cool but it can only be done as root. I edited the file /var/adm/utmpx (that's on an IRIX system; it'll be different for other systems) using emacs (yes, emacs edits binaries) and replaced the occurences of :0.0 with :666. So a finger -l would show me logged in from :666. Hmmmm. That was a bit lame. So I'll add another semi-ObHack on to make it complete. ObHack II. You recall a little while back when Steve Belcyk (sp?) posted about his WebMineSweeper hack. Well, I tried it out and it was cool. So I decided to write my own hack. I present: WebTicTacToe. It works with netscape and mosaic; lynx doesn't seem to have too much trouble with it either. The URL is http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~dilatush/ttt.d Unfortunately, the part that plays the game isn't very good -- I can beat it easily, when TTT should be always tied. But it was a fun hack for a monday morning.
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