This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: test
Article: 7944 of alt.hackers From: ca4str@isis (Stephen.Michael.Trewick) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: test Date: 2 Jun 1995 14:28:31 GMT Organization: University of Sunderland Lines: 41 Approved: God loves me Message-ID: 3qn76f$e17@orac.sunderland.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: isis.sunderland.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Status: RO
Stephen.Michael.Trewick (ca4str@isis) wrote: : I wondered if it could be that easy, it is isnt it ? : Steve Oops, forgot the ObHack, well here's one. At uni, we have an intercom system in the accomadation building I live in My flatmate Dave pulled ours off the wall one night when he was drunk, idiot!, To fix it back on, I had to take the back off, to put a screw through the back plate, and while I was in, I discovered that if you fed vurrent into the blue wire, all the intercom milkes became live. This means effectively that : A: We can now eavesdrop on the flat downstairs B: By applying curent to various wires, buzz anyone in the building from our flat, rather than the front door, where the buzz swithches are. This is useful as we dont have free local calls in this country, and the only hall payphone is down three flights of stairs, and behind several soundproof doors which is lame. I have'nt bee following this group for long, but I assume that the word hacker is used here in its proper and original sense, ie NOT some mindless moron who thinks thw SATAN software is rreeeeeel coooool maaan. trash some systems I've been into computers since I was about five, and have been doing weird stuff with them ever since, thats what I regard as a hacker, someone who is good at computing, in areas most people get lost in, am I right ? Steve.Trewick@Sunderland.ac.uk
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