One of my fondest memories of BYTE is why I have the career I have today. It was a how-to discussing making your system more secure against a virus (boot-secto

One of my fondest memories of BYTE is why I have the career I have today. It was a how-to discussing making your system more secure against a virus (boot-sector/TSR). It explained how to edit your io.sys, and command.com; so that the system would use different files then: config.sys & autoexec.bat to boot. I failed at this task, and learned a very hard lesson about backups, but it wasn't as painful as it could have been. Format & re-install was rather common back then too (1-3'ish months on average) But I learned that I WANT to hack on my systems. I learned that I COULD run MY hardware how I wanted. It opened the world to me. I do not accept a system as it's presented to me, I must find the edge-case and break-out of the conforms that would keep me contained. I also learned about the difference between obscurity and security too. And that combined they are greater then the sum of their parts.