A friend and I when I was in the 4th form (1986ish) got hold of a modem that could auto-dial, a genuine Hayes from memory, probably 1200 baud.
We looked in the phone book and deduced what blocks of phone numbers belonged to a couple of high profile businesses, and proceeded to sequential dial them looking for modems that would answer.
Nothing too bad about that, but sequential dialing the central police station was probably our downfall... :-).
Never managed to 'crack' anything, but the night we dialed the Cop Shop number block there was a knock on the door at about 11pm, and (surprise surprise!) a chap with a nice blue uniform was standing there.
We were at Bob's (name withheld, he'd kill me) place, and his Mum answered the door. The Officer explained that someone was using her phone line to 'attack' computers using a modem, and could they talk to the person in the household who owned a computer...
We got asked all sorts of odd questions by a chap who came with the Uniformed officer, who I assume was an IT type person. After about 2 hours they decided that we were just being kids, and we weren't trying to take down the NZ government. They gave us a warning, and confiscated the modem, so we were back to the acoustic couple modem that didn't do DTMF :-(..
Scared the crap out of us, and taught Bob's mum and important lesson... Not to let that Chris fellow in the house ever again!
Put us off using the modem for about, two weeks, and then we moved our 'spy base' to my house.. Didn't do anything that stupid again, although there were two or three BBS's to play with, so we kept ourselves amused trying to ANSI bomb peoples computers. Ahhh, those were the days.
Cheers, Me.
(Older, and much wiser...)
Michael Beattie wrote:
At least you didn't get caught by the boys in blue sequential dialing phone number blocks with an amstrad C128..I'm sorry, we need the story now.
Mike.
