I keep one of my USR 56k modems on the wall =)

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Rick Harnish <rharn...@wispa.org> 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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
>> lamb...@lambertfam.org
>>
>>
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