The econet system too, this time with email and web access but still the hackable LAN that was so much fun to navigate and spoof.
?&D22=100 to change my station number to the IT teachers station when he'd left for the day. Thus all logs were from his machine, seemingly.
He hated me and my mate. To the point where he had spooled all system privileged activity to actually print out (not to a text file, he wasn't the smartest even to us 14 year olds) to paper.
It was his genius plan to narrow down which room we were logging into from!
The next day we see a locksmith changing the locks to his private computer room.
He never did catch us. Someone snitched in the end. We told a friend who boasted unbeknownst to us to others and the jig was up.
Banned from computers for the rest of school.
A really cool science teacher got us involved with the weather station (it recorded data from NOAA sats to the BBC micro!!) so got the ban amended to 'no computers with network access' so we could use the computer in his lab.
Of course we then learned how to splice cables and made a reeeeeally long econet cable and had a system of lookouts.
Good times.
Thanks Mr. Bush you were a good guy who nurtured our interest. AS for you Mr. Pollard, as an adult I get why you hated us but still, if you'd have asked us to help with the network or the lab or something we could have avoided our war.
Sorry guys, big barely relevant anecdote but hopefully someone else will smile at the fun days of the BBC Micro and remember the econet hacks.
The econet system too, this time with email and web access but still the hackable LAN that was so much fun to navigate and spoof.
?&D22=100 to change my station number to the IT teachers station when he'd left for the day. Thus all logs were from his machine, seemingly.
He hated me and my mate. To the point where he had spooled all system privileged activity to actually print out (not to a text file, he wasn't the smartest even to us 14 year olds) to paper.
It was his genius plan to narrow down which room we were logging into from!
The next day we see a locksmith changing the locks to his private computer room.
He never did catch us. Someone snitched in the end. We told a friend who boasted unbeknownst to us to others and the jig was up.
Banned from computers for the rest of school.
A really cool science teacher got us involved with the weather station (it recorded data from NOAA sats to the BBC micro!!) so got the ban amended to 'no computers with network access' so we could use the computer in his lab.
Of course we then learned how to splice cables and made a reeeeeally long econet cable and had a system of lookouts.
Good times.
Thanks Mr. Bush you were a good guy who nurtured our interest. AS for you Mr. Pollard, as an adult I get why you hated us but still, if you'd have asked us to help with the network or the lab or something we could have avoided our war.
Sorry guys, big barely relevant anecdote but hopefully someone else will smile at the fun days of the BBC Micro and remember the econet hacks.