That says a lot. The computer fraud and abuse act covers unauthorized access, and while the changes may not be explicitly authorized, I'm willing to wager that there is some clause in the agreement between the users and AOL that allows for this kind of thing.
Unethical, yes. Legal? Possibly. I haven't used AOL in about six years, and even then, I don't think that I looked at the EULA (if there even was/is one)
Yeah, I'm actually just out of high school myself, and during my senior year, I would spend most of my time in the sysadmin's office. I learned a whole hell of a lot in those five months, more then I had the entire seventeen years prior. I might have been schedueled for six study halls a day, damned if I actually ever went.
Ok, mabye I should rephrase that. If a kid was bright enough to nail himself root acess, he's more likely to be able to make the needed repairs himself.
Then again, he could just be a script kiddy, but as bad as those are, they're still more intelligent then a good number of users.
Actually, they do. The inverter that runs the backlight (which is a CCFL) runs upwards of six thousand volts. It's not quite as nasty as a CRT, but it still hurts like fsck, and leaves nice little burns.
Extremely liberal estimate on costs. Think about AOL cds and how quick those go out. Just send them in boxes to places like Circuit City, CompUSA, and BestBuy
Your best bet is to do something similar to what you have done here. Submit the information to them via an anyonymous channel, perhaps mailing a CD (which you handled using gloves, no less) with an explanation and machine-readable exploit code. You don't have to make it known that it was you, just that someone figured it out.
Or, if you really want to be a little more reasonable along those lines, the aliens come down to visit, tell us how to make said antennaes, so that when they leave, we can still contact them.
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That says a lot.
The computer fraud and abuse act covers unauthorized access, and while the changes may not be explicitly authorized, I'm willing to wager that there is some clause in the agreement between the users and AOL that allows for this kind of thing.
Unethical, yes.
Legal? Possibly. I haven't used AOL in about six years, and even then, I don't think that I looked at the EULA (if there even was/is one)
You know, just *thinking* of the cooling that kind of thing would need makes me shudder.
I second.
Yeah, I'm actually just out of high school myself, and during my senior year, I would spend most of my time in the sysadmin's office. I learned a whole hell of a lot in those five months, more then I had the entire seventeen years prior. I might have been schedueled for six study halls a day, damned if I actually ever went.
Ok, mabye I should rephrase that.
If a kid was bright enough to nail himself root acess, he's more likely to be able to make the needed repairs himself.
Then again, he could just be a script kiddy, but as bad as those are, they're still more intelligent then a good number of users.
But admittedly, if a kid was bright enough and had enough initiative to go ahead and do that, then the probably know enough to not fuck things up.
Actually, they do. The inverter that runs the backlight (which is a CCFL) runs upwards of six thousand volts. It's not quite as nasty as a CRT, but it still hurts like fsck, and leaves nice little burns.
8mbit amongst how many people? I'm curious, myself. (I'm on cable, so I have no "I have pure bandwidth" argument to make)
In soviet russia, computer uses YOU!
*groan*
Because it's hundreds of years in the future and language evolves? That, or it's fiction.
Suspension of disbeleif.
I don't know, we manage to sell a lot of them where I work (AOL signups, that is.)
Extremely liberal estimate on costs. Think about AOL cds and how quick those go out. Just send them in boxes to places like Circuit City, CompUSA, and BestBuy
Oooh, someone capable of reading my journal. I'm spooked. =P
I reiterate. Go away, troll. You're not welcome here.
Go away, troll.
Amen. I'm using an eight year old aptiva to write this post. My Soyo board with my athlon has leaking caps, need to get something new.
You have to keep in mind the charachter set. It also would include about 254 other charachters, so rot-255.
I think.
Canis mathis?
Canis tictactoe?
Yeah, I had one of those, still do, actually, but I can't find support for it anymore. =(
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
How about Asynchronous Transfer Mode Machine?
Just make sure it's not working. Destroying a working one is eeevil.
One of my freinds was very very high once, and he mentioned that Skynet was just pre matrix. The war of the machines.
Your best bet is to do something similar to what you have done here. Submit the information to them via an anyonymous channel, perhaps mailing a CD (which you handled using gloves, no less) with an explanation and machine-readable exploit code. You don't have to make it known that it was you, just that someone figured it out.
Or, if you really want to be a little more reasonable along those lines, the aliens come down to visit, tell us how to make said antennaes, so that when they leave, we can still contact them.
I'm sorry, but fox29 buffalo is crap, even when you don't need a huge antenna to get it.
Sorry. Cool implementation, though. Pictures?