My experience mirrors yours. After wardialing for BBSes, I ran one off of a 'teenage line' as we called it back then. Wrote some BBS software that sucked. After entering the workforce, outside email was introduced to our ccMail system which I did over an serial connection between a standalone PC that would connect to the Internet over ISDN and finger the ISPs POP server. People wanted to browse (this is 1995-6) so we bought a Sun Sparc workstation and checkpoint and it was my job to set it up and harden it.
The only time that we were hacked (that I know of!) is during a pentest they found a modem connected to a conference bridge system running NT4 and an unsecure PCAnywhere that the vendor left on. ---- Raffi On May 14, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Chris Merkel <[email protected]> wrote: > A variation on that other thread. I didn't get my start in infosec > because I got hacked. I was a huge (beige hat) fan of the movie War > Games, if you catch my drift. > > BBSs, tymnet, telenet (no, that's not a typo kids...) and other random > x.25 links found via wardialing were my first playgrounds. I remember > one day, as the sun rose on a typical all-nighter, I said to myself > "Cool, I just taught myself how to use DEC VMS, I bet I'd be good at a > job working with computers..." > > So, who got into IT in the hopes that they could one day start getting > paid for something they had done for fun in the past? (And is willing > to admit it ;-) > > I did - it's still a lot of fun, though there's a lot more paperwork > involved. > > > -- > - Chris Merkel > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
