RE: Ask a computer security expert (part 2)
July 18, 2017 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2017 at 2:50 pm by Jackalope.)
(July 18, 2017 at 11:10 am)Tiberius Wrote: If you want to watch a good hacking movie that was mostly accurate with the hacking, watch War Games.
^^^ This ^^^
Wardialing was something that we did in the early 80's and beyond to discover insecure systems. One might be surprised at how many there were and how easy they were to discover.
We did this at the time via misappropriated long distance card pins, which back then worked by dialing into a toll-free number, entering a PIN and the destination number - problem is that PINs were of a known length and were not very sparsely distributed so it was quite simple to get a large number of working PINs quickly.
There were also a number of hardware hacks used to get free long distance back in the day (Blue Boxes and the like, courtesy of the work of Captain Crunch (both the cereal and the hacker - seriously).
ETA: It probably goes without saying that I stopped being involved in any of the above and any other black hattery the day I turned 18, and the statue of limitations has long since run out - so the FBI can go pound sand.
