Conference noted::hackers_v1

277.0. "Real Hackers hack hardware too" by TUNDRA::HARRIMAN (No time like tomorrow) Tue Jul 29 1986 15:45

    While I'm thinking about TASK and network access, are there any
    interesting hacks that anyone can think about which do not involve
    TASK, but still execute on another system (like TELL but without
    using TASK)... An idea I was thinking about but doesn't hold water
    is to try to get FAL or some other official network object to die
    and then to let an insidious outside program (previously put there
    by some mad hacker) kick in on the existing process and either spawn
    a DCL subprocess or do some dastardly non-transparent DECNET protocol
    with a cohort on another system...
    
    Any ideas?
    
    -pjh
    
    
    Also, I had a great hack to relate which someone perpetrated here
    and I felt was pretty interesting. Seems someone connected their
    cluster's DMF-32 channels to a DECserver so it pretended that it
    was a LAT. Then the DMF physical devices were left W:RWLP so anyone
    could just allocate them. Then persons unnamed would run MODEM to
    assign themselves a DMF channel, use the LAT protocol to get on
    a particular system which limits interactive users to a captive
    menu, and they would "copy" things off of the "secure" system by
    telling MODEM to log at the host, and then they would TYPE some
    file....
    
    Now that's being creative...
    
    

    
    	Or how about hooking the dmf channels to a lat , to transfer
    ascii files do a set host/log/dte tx%% , or to transfer any type
    of file you can use kermit , which is available on most systems ,
    if not you can get a net copy to your own account .