Thanks for the tip. I learned from the show, though I don't
sympathize with people who get slapped for stealing manuals,
or even breaking into computers that are neither theirs nor are
they authorized users.
Used to use a text for operating systems that described how
the author assigned writing code that was submitted in the
form of a subroutine punched into a deck of cards. They had
a grading program which called the subroutine with test data,
and compared the values returned to assign a grade of either
Correct or Incorrect. One day they printed out a grade list
which looked like:
Jones Correct
Smith Incorrect
Schwartz Maybe
etc, etc.
Schwartz was offered an automatic A in the course for telling
the instructor how he did it. That sort of hacking I admire.
I knew a fellow, when I first started college in Natchitoches
around 1950, who had a device he put in the attic of a dorm
that let him make long distance calls faking a pay phone.
I never was that interested in calling long distance.
At 12:43 PM 7/25/01 -0700, you wrote:
<em>> From the Star One Delta list, which has an even higher
<em>>Geek Ratio than the this list:
<em>>
<em>>--- Nebe Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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<em>> > This Wired article talks about a documentary that
<em>> > will be showing on TLC
<em>> > tonight at 9 pm (rerun at midnight).
<em>> >
<em>> > Article:
<em>> > http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45515,00.html
<em>> >
<em>> > The show talks about the early origins of "hacking",
<em>> > and follows John
<em>> > Draper (aka Cap'n Crunch) and Steve Wozniak through
<em>> > the years, and then
<em>> > goes on to look at Kevin Mitnick and the modern
<em>> > social climate around hackers.
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