Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nbs-amrf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!libes From: libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: From "Computer Fraud and Security Bulletin" Message-ID: <216@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 21:10:56 EST Article-I.D.: nbs-amrf.216 Posted: Thu Mar 15 21:10:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 02:43:34 EST Organization: National Bureau of Standards Lines: 56 The 'Microlive' program on BBC decided it would be a good thing to show viewers the wonders of British Telecom's 'Gold System' (electronic mail. An advertising blurb says that security is "absolutely no problem". No one can read your confidential messages. Under the scrutiny of millions of viewers, Ian McNaught Davis, the presenter, punched in his own secret password to read his private mail. Great system said British Telecom...secure...wonders of 20th century technology. Viewers waited with eager anticipation....then... The screens of millions of viewers lit up with the words: "I hope your television program runs as smoothly as my program worked out your passwords. Nothing is secure. Signed The Nutcracker (Hackers UK)" followed by: "Put another password in, Bomb it out and try again Try to get password logging in We're hacking, hacking, hacking, hacking Try his wife's maiden name This is more than just a game It's real fun, but just the same We're hacking, hacking, hacking Davis managed to keep his cool and later said that, "Some bright spark somehow got into the system and came up with the jingle. It came as a bit of a surprise. It seems that someone has discovered a loophole". Thats an excerpt from Computer Fraud and Security. Its just a great rag. Lots of laughs. 5 good ideas for hacks per page, I would say. Although at $175/yr, thats ridiculous. I guess I'll have to call up their computer and put myself on their mailing list. That would be appropriate. Another good hack on the same page as the previous one (and this is only page 2!) is how to save money at gas stations where you pump the gas and a cashier remotely reads the purchase. Apparently a powerful CB Radio can overpower the pulses sent to the cashier as a flow meter pumps gas. This results in a low purchase price. That's a big 10-4! Yet another good hack is about some guy who won a record $1.7million on slot machines at Lake Tahoe. He played a progressive system using 16 machines connected together. What the casino discovered (a little too late though) was that someone had plugged a funny device into the back of all the slot machines. Apparently, the machines are required to have external data sockets for testing by the Gaming Commission! I'm not sure if this is the wrong news group to post this kind of stuff in. But I would certainly like to post/read more of it. Perhaps, net.sport.hacking? (I am serious.) Don Libes {allegra|seismo}!umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!libes