Re: What evil things have you done in the past?

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

> * Crashing BBS's
>
> There were only a couple times where I had the impulse to crash a BBS.

There was one time I had the impulse to crash a BBS and I did. It was called 
Mike & Matts Tavern, later called just The Tavern. It was a GBBS system. 
Mike had made it a refuge for Jon Fether, where he launched his flame wars. 
"FutureNet Sucks, TeamNet Rules, BoycoT Sucks, Xenon Knight (Knight with a 
moon) sucks", you get the picture.

During all this, my account was deleted from The Tavern. I dialed in one day 
and couldn't log in. So I tried to log in using Fether's account (and his 
password that he used on my BBS). I got in and found that he had Sysop 
access.

I went back to Merlin and whipped up an ACOS external that wrote zero's to 
every device starting in slot 7, drive 2 and working down from there. Tried 
it out with a few floppies and it worked nicely on my computer.  I then 
logged back in to The Tavern and replaced the Blackspring Full-Screen editor 
external with this little gem and logged out.  The BBS would keep running 
fine as long as nobody tried to use the Full-Screen editor.

The next day, I tried to call The Tavern and it just rang & rang.  I don't 
remember if he ever came back online after that, but some time after that 
Mike announced on another local BBS that he was quitting the BBS business.

This was done in total blackout. I never told even my closest allies that I 
had done it.