Thursday 15 December 2011

Hacking At Home: Dialing Up ComputersWith Your Modem

Now we get to the stuff of which dreams are made. You flick the switch on your computer and a few moments later it's purring away.

You press a few keys, type in a phone number and after some beeps you hear the wonderful shriek of connection. The handshaking is fine, but you're looking for a lot more than a handshake.

You press Enter a few times.

"What's your name?" it asks. You respond - not with your own name of course - with someone else's.

Then you let your fingers whisper that sweet secret word through the keyboard and the screen lights up with a luscious display.

Menus! Options! Choices to be made! Files to read and to learn from, software to run, games to play. You let the directories sift past you, letting yourself be mesmerized by their framework. So much to do, and then you see connections to other sites, and more sites, and more secret files to read! You smile as you realize
something: every hack, no matter its size, leads to new hacks, new computers, new horizons of exploration and gain.