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Null terminator (backend.xylight.dev)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 54 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Could have just researched what character was being inserted by the ctrl backspace and then used the keyboard to insert the character from its ascii or unicode code to login and then changed your password before nuking your computer

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But with what computer?!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Your phone maybe?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Your what? Like those things with the dial that are attached to the wall? How are you meant to do it with that?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Easy. You whistle in binary and say modem noises. The operator will patch you through to the internet.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm in.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I genuinely can't tell if you and the person you responded to are doing a bit and committing to it, or are genuinely referring to:

    Phreakers

    Making weird modem noises to hack phones will always be the funniest 90's hacker thing I've ever heard.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hey, it worked, okay lol? And we were in the 70’s.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was a 90's kid. Making weird noises in the phone was magic to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I know a lot of people get weird about it, but the Anarchist's Cookbook had TONS of info on phreaking and exploiting telephone systems. It wasn't just about how to make napalm and tennis ball bombs (but that shit was hella fun, too).

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm sure this version of windows was before phones had screens attached, and likely before the internet was ubiquitous. They likely had one computer and would have had to go somewhere else to look it up if that was even an option.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or just cleared the SAM password altogether. Windows is trivially easy to break into if you have physical access and the volume isn't encrypted.

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