On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:16 -0400, David Andrews wrote: > >That was well over 20 years ago, back when we worked 16 hour days for >the joy of it. These days the auditors and security officers would go >berzerk; but at the time *we* were in charge of security, and EDP >auditors hadn't yet arrived on the scene. It boiled down to harmless >fun: nobody was hurt by it, and we never broke anything (didn't dare!), >and we even learned some cool stuff along the way. > I know a couple hackers from that era who had an ethic about practical jokes. While each had superuser authority, neither ever used it to hack the other. However, terminals left unattended on unprivileged logins were fair game ...
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