The Cuckoo's Egg is an amazing book if you have not read it. On Dec 16, 2010 5:56 PM, "Rick Harnish" <[email protected]> wrote: > Our first employee was a 14 year old kid that hacked into our server shortly > after we started a dialup business in 1995. His payment for the next couple > years was hardware. Dang, he must be nearly 30 now. I can promise you he > was successful! > > I went into the office one day and my partner said "We've been hacked". I > looked at him dumbfounded, not knowing with "hacked" meant. He said I'm > going to catch him next time. The next day he said "I caught him, you will > never believe who it is, He is 14 years old and he starts work tomorrow." > > Ah the good ole days! 56K Frame Relay backbone and (16) 19,200 baud US > Robotics modems. :) > > Rick > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Scott Lambert >> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:45 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Copyright Infringement --- TOO FUNNY!!! >> >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:59:23AM -0800, Mark Nash wrote: >> > When we forward copyright notices from the entertainment industry >> > lawyers to our customers who download illegally-obtained movies, we >> get >> > a variety of responses from our customers, ranging from none at all, >> > shocked, angry, understanding, etc. >> > >> > This takes the cake...DEFINITELY my favorite...gettin a little >> > wrist-slap from dad... >> > >> > (names have been changed to protect the guilty)... >> > >> > ******************* >> > Hello this is Taylor Wisdom, Bill Wisdom's son. My father just >> informed >> > me of an email he received from UnwiredWest via Mark Nash regarding >> the >> > downloading of a film which violated copy infringement laws. The was >> > labeled "Takers". I did download the film "Takers" from a bit torrent >> > website and have since then deleted the film and any programs >> affiliated >> > with them. This sort of copyright infringement will not happen again. >> I >> > do apologize for the inconvenience. >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > Taylor Wisdom >> > ******************* >> >> Sounds like most of the conversations we used to have with the 13 >> year old script-kiddy-wannabes in the late 90's. The parents had >> no clue what the kids were up to, but got very serious with the >> kids when we called them at 2am to report their mis-behaviour. >> >> One kid's father scared hime enough that when one of his IRC friends >> from another state said he was going to use a password he found for >> one of our customer's on our shell server, the kid told Dad and Dad >> dialed the phone and handed it back to the kid. He ended up talking >> to me. I watched the other kid log in and run a few commands. The >> shells were all patched to log every command run to a central log >> file we could tail -f. He gave me the location and name of the >> other kid. We called that kids's phone number: >> >> Us: "Get off my server." >> >> Kid: "I don't know what you're talking about dude." >> >> Us: "You are logged in as user blah from IP address blither. The >> last command you ran was blah blah blah." >> >> Kid: "I'm off." >> >> The change from cocky to "oh sh**" was fun for us. >> >> Us: "Go get your Dad." >> >> I think that one ended up in Juvie. It wasn't his first offence >> and his dad had promised to send him up the river the next time he >> did any hacking. We were the next time he got caught. Dad said >> he had been caught messing with NASA before. >> >> -- >> Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix >> SysAdmin >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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