[Novalug] Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 16:41:47 EDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 April 2009 1:54:59 pm William Sutton wrote:
>> That doesn't look nearly so stylish as an 80% shaded translucent Eterm
>> with the Shiny Metal theme and a custom background...
>
> Yes, well, as I said on Slashdot, my terminal has a black text on a pink
> background, not white text on black.  The pink is proof that whatever I'm
> doing is legal.

On this subject…

Many moons ago ago a friend of mine ran a popular BBS system while he
still lived with his parents. His room had a reg-tag fleet of computer
systems handling the various lines and such running 24/7.

One day he came home and his parents pulled him aside— "Jason, we need
to have a talk. We need know you've been engaging in criminal
activities with your computers", certainly not something any BBS
operator wanted to hear especially in the early 90s.  Much
uncomfortable and confused discussion ensued until it was discovered
that the cause for their concern was a Windows system that died during
the day, leaving a "You have performed an illegal operation" message
on the screen.


I hate to think what might happen if the error had instead been "Lp0 on fire".



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