This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: NEED AUTODIALER SOFTWARE
Article: 7496 of alt.hackers From: cpierce1@ed7590.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: NEED AUTODIALER SOFTWARE Date: 9 Mar 1995 15:47:34 GMT Organization: Ford Motor Co., Powertrain Systems Lines: 29 Approved: fubar Distribution: world Message-ID: 3jn7um$n5g@eccdb1.pms.ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ed7590.pto.ford.com Status: RO
In article <D55Lnt.JHH@dorite.use.com>, ronb@iquest.net (Highlander)
writes:
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|> A long time ago I found several bits of shareware/freeware on BBS's that
|> allowed you to dial literally hundreds of numbers in sequence and it
|> would make note of numbers that answered with a modem (either computer
|> or fax).
Beware that placing a telephone call without the intention of communication
is now illegal in serveral states. This applies to "War Dialers"
as well.
|> This type of software seems to not be found anywhere now.
Thank goodness.
And you forgot your
ObHack: We needed to collect config information to figure out some
problems our users were having. Problem is we've got 100's of systems,
under 4 different architectures. Solution: I wrote a worm in Perl to scour
the network and examine each machine in parallel on the building. Some stats:
296 Gigs searched in 3.5 Hours. Total CPU time: 96 Hours (remember parallel).
The results were returned in E-Mail. Not a bad morning's work...
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