Re: Hacker Handle

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1157394389.442122.176790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
 "Chris Morse" <win32mfc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris Morse wrote:
> > William Heckel wrote:
> > > What was your hacker handle back in the day..
> >
> > My handle was "MAD MAX".  I was friends with a decent cracker named Mr.
> > Xerox.  But I did not crack any software myself.
> > Towards the last couple years I went by "Sir Ghent", where "Ghent" was
> > taken from a black magic marker that was sitting on my desk.
> >
> > // CHRIS
> 
> I've decided to to a little personal write up in response to Terry's
> "Evil things" thiread.  In thinking about my past, I remembered that my
> handle, for quite a while, was "TELE-HACKER".  The TELE part was from
> TELENET, a packet-switching network owned by GTE.  I did a lot of
> hacking on there.
> 
> // CHRIS
> 

You too, eh? :) 

MichNet was a sub-segment of the TELENET operation, and I remember to 
this day the keystroke sequence to wander through a whole mess of 
GOPHERs before causing an error that would eventually give you wide-open 
access to "The Internet".

Dial in, and wait for the "login:" prompt. Enter "help", and hit return, 
to find yourself looking at a GOPHER server trying to be helpful. From 
there, it was  
1<ret>7<ret>18<ret><tab>4<ret>library<ret>?<ret>h<ret>11<ret><down-arrow 
four times><ret> and then you'd see:
"Internal Error #17414. Please contact the computer support department 
in room 221 of Cowley hall for more information." followed by a naked 
">" prompt. From there, hitting return would prompt you for an 
address/port number to telnet to. Presto! Root access on a 
backbone-connected machine (Damned if I know *WHAT* machine it was, 
though - Never did care enough to find out. Someplace in Canada, I 
think.)

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