What better way to celebrate St Patrick's day than with green stuff. Because there clearly isn't enough already.
Plus bonus confessions of (low jail risk) technical naughtiness.
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Plus bonus confessions of (low jail risk) technical naughtiness.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support my criminal lifestyle with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
Oh 600V… that'th thpithey.
Plus the 120V have the North American black/white colours for mains voltage.
Oh, and I used to run a BBS, too…
I used to have a Cromemco computer, wish I still had it… War Games movie, that computer was an Imsai, I have one in the room here with me, along with another box that works with it that has a pair of eight inch disk drives. I only have one disk for those at the moment but pull it out when I want to show somebody why they call them "floppy" disks. 🙂
I had an experience shall I say and shut down all the local servers for my local council from the local library at the age of 15 and now I'm banned from EVERY library in the UK 🤣🤣🤣 now I'm an ethical hacker and programmer love the videos mate keep it up
Sounds like a PRESTEL modem Clive 🙂
I had one in 1981 cost a fortune on the phone bill .. lol
I did shananagins on the uni network I probaly should not have been up to but hay I was there to lean & thus using their kit to lean computer security. More oftern how not to configure a system.
So many memories being brought back listening to this. I used to run a BBS in the 90s & it got quite big in the Amiga community. Before that I recall 75 baud Dowty modems on a Sinclair Spectrum with microdrive. Happy days.
Check out the book, "Exploding The Phone" for more details of these techniques.
Nice Clive you are a fellow Phone hacker! Alt.2600 forever! Captain Crunch would be proud
Most interesting thing I ever did was when I was maybe 14 or so.
I went to German language classes every Saturday at one of our local high schools back then, and there was this vending machine we'd all use in the hall during break.
One day I decided to pull up the maintenance manuals of that vending machine online, and I found out that nobody had changed the service code on it.
I went to that class every Saturday for six years. Every single week I'd put it in maintenance mode when nobody was looking and get myself a candy bar, chips, and a soda. Then make sure to lock it again. I never told anyone, and it was always in service, and always stocked every week.
I wonder if it's still there thirteen odd years later.
Oh and then in high school I showed a friend how to force shutdown any computer in the entire school by IP via simple remote DOS command. That spread like freaking wildfire. I remember being exceptionally amused when my teachers' workstations would randomly power off during a powerpoint or something. They never found out I'd started the mess either.
We also had redone our school's website at one point for extra credit (myself a few friends), and we had a principal that never smiled. The best we had of him in photo was a slight frown. So when we did the homepage the way he wanted it, it had his face on the homepage. I ended up making his face hoverable, and when you did, it flipped his frown upside down into a smile. It took about six months before someone found out and it got back to him. Course he was old and had no idea about computers so he believed us when we said it was a bug 😛
Aaaaaaaand I had a cellphone with an IR transmitter and I used to get a gigantic laugh out of turning the TV cart off twenty seconds after the teachers finally thought they got it working. Used to laugh how they all thought only one cart in the whole school actually worked. Never mind I was just turning them all off on them. Get up to go to the bathroom, walk by a class playing a video… zap 😛 Listen to the chaos. There was also a big projector on the ceiling in the gym they used for assemblies that would also faithfully respond to my nonsense.
High school was fun times.