Arnold Jackson, school reporter at P.S. 98 in New York City, interviews Ricky for the school paper, and Ricky shows Arnold how to 'visit' (ie hack) military computers with this new algorithm he's been working on. Gold!
@LeonardSankar1 The oldest modems you would actually pick up your phone, dial, and drop the handset onto a microphone/speaker on the modem. Later modems had all the dialing and phone circuits integrated so the computer could control it directly via commands sent to it from the keyboard in a terminal program. You only paid your phone bill, unless you were connecting to a paid online service like Compuserve or the old AOL. Highly recommend Netflixing "War Games"...
@jakeharvey That was pretty cool stuff as I didn't know you could use your home computer to link up with other computers. So how did you go about dialing once your modem was plugged in? Could you just use your keyboard to dial? Also did you have to pay extra for this?
@LeonardSankar1 Was actually pretty common back then. There weren't as many IT departments with rigid security standards. The basic setup of "War Games" was pretty accurate - you'd have your computer dial random phone numbers and log which ones answered with modems. Then you'd take the list, call and connect to them, and see what you got. A good number of systems had no security at all. No doubt some military networks were compromised this way, by careless setups that created a backdoor.
How can Ricky hack into the military with a home computer? You can't even do that with an internet connection but how is his computer of the 80's linked to others?
Why does Ricky keep feeling for his beard?
1:56 Enter Clearance access code 006774YRY56GGDBC97021Q↑O79.... FUCK me that's one hell of an accurate guess! I would've just went with "Joshua".
The Starlight 2000 is an F-22 raptor? Damn hackers
bigmack0033 1 month ago
@LeonardSankar1 The oldest modems you would actually pick up your phone, dial, and drop the handset onto a microphone/speaker on the modem. Later modems had all the dialing and phone circuits integrated so the computer could control it directly via commands sent to it from the keyboard in a terminal program. You only paid your phone bill, unless you were connecting to a paid online service like Compuserve or the old AOL. Highly recommend Netflixing "War Games"...
jakeharvey 10 months ago
@jakeharvey That was pretty cool stuff as I didn't know you could use your home computer to link up with other computers. So how did you go about dialing once your modem was plugged in? Could you just use your keyboard to dial? Also did you have to pay extra for this?
LeonardSankar1 10 months ago
@LeonardSankar1 Was actually pretty common back then. There weren't as many IT departments with rigid security standards. The basic setup of "War Games" was pretty accurate - you'd have your computer dial random phone numbers and log which ones answered with modems. Then you'd take the list, call and connect to them, and see what you got. A good number of systems had no security at all. No doubt some military networks were compromised this way, by careless setups that created a backdoor.
jakeharvey 10 months ago
How can Ricky hack into the military with a home computer? You can't even do that with an internet connection but how is his computer of the 80's linked to others?
LeonardSankar1 11 months ago
WOW He basically predicted the future right there!! and that's the early 80s
Zicologo 1 year ago