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Re: c00l hack


Article: 7580 of alt.hackers
From: emerson@sfsu.edu (Russell Pickett)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: c00l hack
Date: 2 Apr 1995 22:17:35 GMT
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In article <3lmbt0$7kn@news.cais.com>, hacker@ns.secis.com says...
>
>In article <3lkbb8$nih@news.csus.edu>, RadD00d
<RadD00d@aol.com> wrote:
>>about a year ago, i was wardialing and found this bbs that didnt have a
>>password on an account called sysop. i discovred the software they were
>>running was one i had hacked befor, so i borke out of the bbs into dos.
>>i was able to instal a virus on the harddrive of the machine that would
>>low level format the drive as soon as it was rebooted.
>>
>>
>>five days later i called back, and a guy answered the phone instead
>>of a modem tone. i asked him if the bbs was up and he got kinda bent
>>out of shape so i asked him if he had computer problem and i started to
>>laugh and hung up. that was cool.
>>
>>
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>RadD00d@aol.com   "Huh huh huh huh huh huh" - Beavis
and Butthead
>>I want to trade WAR3Z and K0D3Z and 3133+ secrets!  -*-  alt.2600
>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>Not bad, not bad at all.  A most excellent forgery, and a nice try at a
>good April's Fool post.  Granted, not terribly original, but what it
>lacks there, it more than makes up for in authenticity.  Any other day
>of the year, and it would have definitely qualified as at least a troll.

I think the cleverest part of it is that, even with the text reading so
authentically, the original poster still managed to get his secret
message in -- read down the left column of "RadD00d's" posting
and you'll
see what I mean.


>I mean, it hits all the right buttons.  The misuse of the the term
>"hacked," the obnoxious behavior, the use of the virus,
the sadism.
>Truly a minor work of art.  Oh, one thing.  I believe the accepted quote
>from Beavis and Butthead is "Heh heh heh heh heh heh."
Granted, my
>entire experience with those two has involved catching them on news
>shows after someone imitated them.

Hmn.. possibly a calculated misquote, part of the work of art.


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