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[Howard Lowndes]

A few years back I ran a Pick system and had a dial in modem for software
support.  One day whilst looking through the few logs that Pick had I saw
that someone had apparently tried to log in, I assume after they had
war-dialled the number, and they had left the login identity of "what the
f**k opsys is this".

Fooled them (8-).

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 hartr@interweft.com.au wrote:

> On 27 Nov, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
> > Of course it can be used that way, but so can remote dialup
> > services.  Before the internet, we did LOTS of remote controlling with
> > dialup modems.  The Internet is not required to make a connection.  Just a
> > phone line and the appropriate receiver at the other end.  Sure is a lot
> > safer than having a net connection hooked up to the world 24/7.
>
> Before the Internet started, setting up a modem to dial random phone
> numbers looking for a modem on the other end was used to find such
> services and crack into them.
>
> All sorts of services require security - a modem dial up link is just
> another attempt at 'security through obscurity' which is a crack waiting
> to happen.
>
>

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Howard.
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