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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!devnull
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: "ObHack" complaint
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.124937.17698@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 25 Jul 92 16:49:38 GMT
- Approved: Hyyyyyyyyyyoop!
- Lines: 33
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- So folks, let's not just say "ObHack:" and then say something we did, eh?
- That's kind of boring. I mean, it just sounds like bragging. Why don't you
- say something about HOW you did it, or something that's actually interesting to
- others here?
-
- small ObHack: Someone at a place I work wrote this news-reading-like thing for
- macs to create an internal newsgroups sort of thing for people to use on their
- macs. It asked for a password. I just wanted to run the program and start
- reading the articles, especially since there weren't very many of them. But
- the authentication was just done locally, so I took the source and made my own
- version which just let me in whether the password was correct or not, so I can
- just press return. Btw, there's some cool hacking things you can do on a mac
- in general with "ResEdit", since so many mac applications use a standard
- structure for all the windows and dialogues and things so you can change them
- easily, interchange "yes" and "no" and stuff, or in the case of "StuffIt", an
- archive making program (like tar, or like arc), changing the screen for setting
- a password on the archive to an explanation that using a password is silly
- because it doesn't do encryption, but it is a big pain in the ass and can't be
- removed, so please press "cancel" now.
-
- Interesting hackerish thing: When you get on "ONET", the Ontario branch of the
- internet, the router continues to belong to onet and you have to provide them
- with the facility to dial in to it and it doesn't have a console and you're not
- supposed to touch it. You just plug it into your ethernet. So three cables
- come out the back: the ethernet, the cable connecting you to whatever site
- you're connected to over onet, and an rs232 line which you have to hook up to
- a phone or something for them (hm, guess there must be a power cord, too...).
- When you call them about something, they dial in. Or when they have to check
- something. It's not your business, it's theirs. Kind of odd but I can
- certainly see why they do it, since they're responsible for the integrity of
- the net. If you want to change something about the configuration, you ask them
- and they do it.
-