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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by Circuitstorm513 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:28AM (#37687247)
Earlier versions of Windows (98? 95?) also used to share things like drives (C$, D$) and printers with the dial-up connection by default. I remember connecting to a printer of a classmate over the internet and printing a page, to his surprise. All you needed was the IP, which was trivial to get from ICQ, back in the days.
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by anthk on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:41AM (#37687715)
Yeah, running an SMB/NFS scan gave you lots of fun on Modem/DSL connections.
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by sumtechguy on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:46AM (#37688856)
What was more fun when the spammers figured out 'net send'. I showed that to one guy I worked with and that thing had a nasty bug. If you got one of the parameters wrong it would send a message to every computer on the domain. He had to explain to the top guys why they had funny messages on their screen.
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by dboreham on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:10AM (#37689841)
There was a time when you could SMB mount shares from servers at MS over the public internet (and e.g. do things like download alphas and betas that were not visible on the ftp server).
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by jandrese on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:09PM (#37692589)
I remember early Bitcoin exchanges that had everything stolen because they left all of their unencrypted private keys on SMB shares that were left visible to the Internet. IIRC this is what finally took down MtGox, almost 20 years after the release of Windows 95. Some people never learn.
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by efreak on Saturday September 30, 2023 @02:17AM (#37713165)
\\live.sysinternals.com can still be mounted as a network drive, according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
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