http://www.rolling...ard_too_much/print This is a really good read if you have 15 minutes.
It really takes me back to my 14-19 y.o. days (minus the blind, fat, and evil part).
I remember myself doing a small bit of phreaking, but I was more of a computer guy. For phreaking, I was just a simple script-kiddy. For computers, I was slightly more advanced.
My favorite phreak was a box I built (forget which color) that when plugged into a phone outlet would kill the connections to all of the phones on the local system (e.g. a house, school, etc). Plugging it in at school was always amusing.
hehe, I was almost tempted to plug one into a phone jack I would wire up above the recessed ceiling at my old job early this year, but I decided against that one. I also so wanted to rig a cheap mp3 players in the ceiling that would please Bob Marley each day over the PA system at work, but decided against that one too. I knew they'd immediately pin that one on me though as I was one of only a few with enough physical 24/7 access to the systems to do that. Though setting a 6 month delay would have been fun. I was also thinking about setting the code/scripts I had written to self-destruct, but again that probably wasn't a smart idea either.
Back in the day I was more of an IRC nerd though and everything associated with it. Servers, bots, networks, links, 'riding net splits', channel take overs, dcc, listing into private chats, getting past ppl's poorly secured telnet and FTP servers, all that good stuff.
I was no Kevin Mitnick (sp?) but you damn well better hope your security wasn't retarded.
But that's all behind me. Thinking about pulling that shit these days would make me paranoid. Once I hit 18 or 19 I figured it wasn't worth the risk and I enjoyed girls, beer, and drugs more.
Though I do remember one day at my first semester of college. I had a program that would notify me if anyone scanned my ports on my computer. It was good to know, especially since I was doing some moderately sketch stuff, like running and IRCd off the campus connection. One day the evil admin (I still remember his handle, Shadow) scanned me due to him seeing my IRCd I was running. I flipped out and sent back a nasty-gram through some protocol (can't remember which) back to him that said something like "Quit scanning my fucking ports" or something. Yah, I got called into the IT office on that one and had to speak to the director. I managed to get out unscathed though. Next semester I was getting a job as a PC tech for the college IT dept. and soon as "Shadow" saw me applying he was not happy, but I still got the job.
Wow, all the memories.
So, were any of you guys like this? And stories to reminisce on ?
-t
