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Oh college, the days when we would sit around forging emails between guys and girls on campus, professing their love to one another. Or sending an email from t
by jlongster 16y ago
Oh college, the days when we would sit around forging emails between guys and girls on campus, professing their love to one another. Or sending an email from the dean to our rebellious friend calling him in. Or using the "net send" command on XP workstations to send alerts to all computers across campus. Or when we would tunnel through the college filtering service to download music. Ol' friend, those were good times.
- gvb 16y agoIt wasn't my hack, but someone did a hack that gave me months of entertainment. I worked for Smiths Industries, and my buddies were smart enough to register "si.com". Sports Illustrated was a little too slow (ultimately they bought the domain - my buddies got nothing, life is not fair). Anyway, someone on a University of Michigan lab email list forged an email... the "from" was a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, with a bunch of "CC:s" to other "SI models" and CC:ed the UofM email list. The email was pretty well done, something to the effect of "Hey Tyra, do you know why we are getting this strange email from this UofM lab?" There were a surprising number of students that fell for it. At the time, I was responsible for catching bounced email and dealing with it. For the next couple of months I was entertained by lovelorn UofM students trying to hit on Tyra and all her friends. :-D I saved all the email in an archive, but lost it at some point, moving between computer systems. :-( One of my life's major regrets.