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This post got me thinking about my old hobbies as a high schooler in the late 80s and I remembered war dialing. It was trilling to come home after school and s
by chrissnell 13y ago
This post got me thinking about my old hobbies as a high schooler in the late 80s and I remembered war dialing. It was trilling to come home after school and see what my dailer had discovered while I was away. With a few weeks of dialing, I covered all of prefixes in my local exchange. Found a back door into my high school's library (but never could guess or shoulder-surf the password, sadly) and found a terminal server at the local university where I could telnet out without any authentication.
I was just now googling around for war dialers and came across this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwar/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwar/
Looks pretty awesome and supports SIP/IAX2. I may have to give it a shot. Surely there are still some interesting back doors out there.
- macavity23 13y agoYes! The war dialling in this movie was great, as was the hacking (or 'cracking' if you're gonna be precious about it). Also there's a scene where David needs to make a call without change and hacks a payphone using a technique that worked IRL. Arguably one of the only two truish-to-life hacker movies ever made (the other of course being Sneakers, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435).