RE: [SLUG] DOS attacks

[Jill Rowling <Rowling@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the dark ages you could get the typist to hang up the CP/M box by
accidentally pressing SHIFT-BACKSPACE (same as ^P) on the dumb terminals.
Used to go round with a paperclip and short out the appropriate pins on the
DB25 to give it an ACK or something. I think we ended up telling them to
just turn the printer on.

- Jill. 

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Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone:	(02) 9697-4484		Fax:	(02) 9663-1412
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gripz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Gee's all this talk about DOS attacks... I remember a good one for
> MS-DOS... when the user isn't looking walk up and press CTRL-P on a
> computer that doesen't have a printer attached whilst at the DOS prompt.