| From: | Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA> |
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| Subject: | Hacking Security Tallies (Was Re: Weird Campaigns) |
| Date: | Thu, 21 May 1998 04:30:44 -0600 |
[Hacking Security Tallies]
>The way to go about this would, I guess, be to do a Locate File to find
>the file (or memory address) containing the security tallies, and then an
>Edit File operation to change them.
Memory address, almost certainly. Harder for the average person to mess
with and less likely to be a victim of a randomly-deleting-stuff-dork-hacker.
I don't have VR2 right here, but Locate Memory Address would probably be
much the same as Locate File.
>However, I think there'd be some protection built into the system, for
>example that only supervisor-level users can alter security tallies. Any
>thoughts?
I think it would be nice to have longer days and require less sleep. Oh!
Thoughts about this stuff! Well, it makes sense -- if the computer does
something, it has to be poking bytes somewhere, and a skilled "user" should
be able to manipulate those bytes.. and yes, modifying something like that
would obviously be superuser only -- that's the point of superusers, to fix
shit when users break it, right? :)
Back to the time thing, I really need some time to work on JIaFU.. :/
-Adam
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