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by grrdotcloud
1064 days ago
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The ISP president called me at home when it was a teen to tell me "don't do that[0] again". I looked him up recently. He's a big player in SV now. [0] little demonstration that their Windows domain shouldn't be on the same subnet as their users. |
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Back Orifice 2000 was a widespread script kiddie Trojan that gave clients a menu of mischievous features like changing people's desktop wallpaper or ejecting their CD tray, and malevolent ones like deleting files or dumping their stored passwords.
I thought I was invincible because I got away with wardialing all through the 90's and tried to keep my hat grey by not pulling any of the malevolent tricks, but boy did I ever hit that "eject CD tray" button every single time I found a BO2k server.
Fortunately for me I answered the phone when they called instead of my parents, and they were content with reminding me it was a TOS violation and letting me off with a warning.
In hindsight it was probably unusually civic-minded of them to run a honeypot and use it to catch kids and just tell them to knock it off if they wanted to keep their dial-up access.