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- From: gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin)
- Subject: hey y'all
- Message-ID: <gilligan.722123168@cs1.bradley.edu>
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- Organization: Bradley University
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:46:08 GMT
- Approved: gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu
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- First, just what the heck is an ObHack? I grok Hack, but not the Ob
- part.
-
- my ObHack:
- The computers in one lab at my school are all networked, and when you
- boot them, they go to a menu. I hate menus, especially when I didn't
- write it myself. I like to be in control. The <ctrl>-<break> key
- was disabled, and the [exit to dos] command on the menu required a
- password.
- So what did I do?
- Something pretty simple, I assume (and hope) that others before me have
- done this.
- I went into one of the applications on the menu, at random (I picked
- Lotus 123) and forked a shell to dos, where I typed the data files
- for the menu program. The passwords were there, not even encrypted.
-
- ed
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