Re:Back Orifice (1998)
by xtracto on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:09AM
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Tangentially related but, back in the late 90s in my first year at BSc Software Eng. I got in trouble because I cracked the password of a Win98 program called Protect-Z which put some user controls I my Uni's labs machines.
The funny thing is that when the person in charge of all the labs found out I had the password, he asked me how did I get it. When I explained to him about how I attached to the protect-z process and debugged it to get the password , he didn't believe it was possible.
Great times... as someone said, these days you'll surely get suspended or worse.
Re:Back Orifice (1998)
by chihuahua on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:07PM
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At Oxford in 1989 or 90, some kid in the Math+CS program got caught running some password cracking software (reversing the hash on /etc/password) and I think he was expelled for that.
The funny thing is that when the person in charge of all the labs found out I had the password, he asked me how did I get it. When I explained to him about how I attached to the protect-z process and debugged it to get the password , he didn't believe it was possible.
Great times... as someone said, these days you'll surely get suspended or worse.