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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster 28.8 - 'blacklist'
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 17:52:16 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <3161689c.19659586@news.insync.net>
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- On 02 Apr 1996 11:58:57 -0500, daniel@compass-da.com (Daniel S.
- Barclay) wrote:
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- >What does the term "war-dialing" come from?
-
- Back in the 1980s' there was a very popular movie called "WAR GAMES"
- where a young boy alledgedly "broke into" the Defense Department's
- computer that controls all the missle silos. He accomplished this
- feat by "searching" through various telephone exchanges with his modem
- and a program he had written to dial every available number
- sequentially searching for modem tone. Then he would take the "found"
- numbers and attempt to hack a password at the site. Hence the term
- "War-Dialer" was coined.
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