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Article #21162Re: TTY33
From: p... Peter Z. Simpson
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 07:59
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 07:59
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>>>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 1992 20:27:19 -0400 , "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn...@andrew.cmu.edu> said:
> To avoid penetration by hackers, each TTY35 had an answerback drum; the
> G-21 front end would send a ^E (ENQ), and if the answerback wasn't right
> (it said CIT G-21 TTYnn, or something like that, but had some non-printing
> control characters interspersed) (CIT == Carnegie Institute of Technology,
I remember those. I programmed the one in my KSR33 to send my
username and password (the machine was in my dorm room, so not much of
a security risk). Logging on became much easier! (Actually, it just
bugged me to have this neat feature that wasn't being used)
Pete
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