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Article #550Re: pranks/revenge
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:27
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:27
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When the Cyber was the main computing engine at the U .of Sydney, the grad students knew how to get through NOS security and could diddle each other's files. However there was a gentlemens' agreement that one shouldn't do anything irreversible. Two that I remeber were: Grad student A left his terminal unguarded and another grad student came along, put the terminal into local mode and typed /PURGE,* (if I remeber NOS correctly) / then put the terminal back online and and waited for the hapless A to get a shock. Cybers had 60 bit words with the infamous 6 bit character set with no EOL character. (Old hands will understand why Cyber Pascal users always made sure a colon was never the last character on a line.) One student logged on one morning to find that all his files had been scrambled. Eventually he figured out that what his friends had done was rotate every word 2 bits.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!ken From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: pranks/revenge Message-ID: <1989Dec21.202732.19746@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 20:27:32 GMT References: <2542@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: k...@cs.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Dec 21 21:27:32 1989 Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit