people used to crash phones alot back in the day, its what hacking was. look into operation sundevil.
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people used to crash phones alot back in the day, its what hacking was. look into operation sundevil.
That's pretty much all their was back in the early 80s late 70s. No one had a pc, but everyone had a phone to phreak on, and a radio. There were data networks based on packet radio long before the internet, for example. All you needed in some cases was the correct tone sequence to initiate privy escalation using your phone or a modified box, red blue or whatever. :)
Hackers is a great movie. It was cheesy as hell, but great. It pointed out the clueless secret service agents who weren't grasping this whople technology thing, and believing every evil sys admin who got hacked and got pissed off because they didn't know what they were doing.
As for making a virus that took out the phones.... Hmmm, yes.
A worm that forced all slaves to call one number all at once comes to mind. It could either use a modem to do it, or be like the ... Was it Sasser that downloaded the worm via FTP? Anyway, it could download calling tools and use those, or like I said, just using the connection the PC has, and then be like a Logic Bomb, and on a certain date, at the same time, call a number. Just an example of course. I'm sure more ways exist.
Exactly. Back when that movie was made, they didn't have Broadband and all that ****. Dial-up was their main access to the internet. You could infect machines with a worm which would dial out a particular number...and if enough zombies call that number the lines can get pretty jammed :).Quote:
A worm that forced all slaves to call one number all at once comes to mind. It could either use a modem to do it, or be like the ... Was it Sasser that downloaded the worm via FTP? Anyway, it could download calling tools and use those, or like I said, just using the connection the PC has, and then be like a Logic Bomb, and on a certain date, at the same time, call a number. Just an example of course. I'm sure more ways exist.
I tried that with my fax for example. I didnt' know what the number was, so I had it call my cell phone and the caller ID showed me the number. I should try calling my cell phone through dialup one of these days :). Maybe I'll do it in a couple of hours.
EDIT: Just tried it, it pretty much works the same way as the fax. If you wanna check what the phone number of a line is, just have it dial your cell. Or u can just plug a phone and try it that way...dissapointed :(
Ahh, classical movie. Angelina Jolie's crowning achievement (aside from Lara Croft :D). However most if not all of the aspects of that movie were infact fake. The system admin in that movie (the plague dude) was funny as hell.
By the way, what does this have to do with programming security? (Sorry, just being a bastard) :D
It would've been 100x better if it didn't make unix look so gimpy. That along with that little girl in Jurassic Park saying "Unix...I know unix" and looking at everything through a digital city-esque panorama...those two had everyone asking me "WOW DUDE YOUR JOB ROOLZ!!!!!" and me looking for the nearest gun to shoot myself in the face repeatedly.
the movie was made for the "general audience" and not specifically for us. we have to understand that the producers want something that the mass could appreciate visually. even if they have to put all impossibilities in the movie. oh well, that's the way movies go. same reason jedi masters use lightsaber instead of steel swords and real-looking guns.
Actually, it’s not incorrect. The interface they show (edit: in Jurassic Park) is a real interface on some SGI IRIX Unix boxes, see:
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
http://www.slipups.com/items/2786.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/goofs
You have a good point there jetherson, most films have a degree of "poetic licence" yet have to retain a degree of plausibility and understandability amongst the general public.
Let's face it, if a lot of films were strictly accurate they would be pretty boring :D
how about wargames? now that was a classic hack movie....why bother with some company (like hackers) when you could hack something without knowing what it is and destory the world. That was the movie that began it all...for me anyway.