Re: Simple Hack

Article: 7492 of alt.hackers
From: psmith@saturn.acs.oakland.edu (psmith)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Simple Hack
Date: 8 Mar 1995 02:05:52 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, U.S.A.
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Michael Blandford (mikey@math.enmu.edu) wrote:
: ^[:wq
: Damn, thought I was in vi.

Try ^[ZZ
1 less character
Then again, you're not in vi.

ObHack:

I was in an amateur radio club in my undergraduate school (yes, I'm a
geek).  We had a room in the academic building just for our stuff, but
we couldn't get in after hours.  A few 'key' members were given keys
(pun intended), but coordinating their availability was a pain.

We smooth-talked one of the maintenance guys into installing a solenoid
in the door (amazing what schmoozing can do).  One of the guys in the
club also worked for a car alarm company and got ahold of an alarm
module and about 50 key remotes.  A little fancy wiring, a rectifyer to
get rid of the annoying loud buzz, and we had lots of easy access.

Good thing the school admins were so clueless.  I don't think they'd
have liked to know that 30 people (and possibly more) had access to all
that electronic gear.  It's amazing we never lost anything...

Not much of a hack?  Ok... well, later we added a DTMF detector in
parallel with the input side of the module.  We then hooked the input
of the DTMF unit to one of the amateur radios in the room.  Any of us
with handheld radios with DTMF pads (most of us) could use those for
access as well.  We could even open the door from 5 miles away (not
terribly practical, though).

Paul

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