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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
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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