Date   : Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:07:11 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Request for Help - Security Research Project

Hi,

Reminds me - don't forget for inter-station peeks and such, for a lot of the  
time stations above 240 were considered "privileged"...

Somewhere I have some code to hack into a RISC OS 3 station and read the  
password out of the template, for Acorn didn't blank the memory. They  
weren't too hot on security, or maybe we were just a lot more innocent back  
then...


Best wishes,

Rick

(sent from my mobile)

-----Original message-----
From: Rob <robert@...>
To: Martyn Ruks <Martyn.Ruks@...>
Cc: "bbc-micro@..." <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: 2011 Nov, Tue, 1 22:31:00 CET
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Request for Help - Security Research Project

On 1 November 2011 17:35, Martyn Ruks <Martyn.Ruks@...>  
wrote:
> I am now working on a research project to remind myself of the things I  
used to do on that network and will be trying to apply the techniques used  
in modern security attacks and vulnerability exploitation to the old  
technology.
>

Mention of netmon has reminded me, the most useful tool when I was
getting the AUN version of BeebEm Econet working was Ethereal, running
on an old laptop sniffing the packets travelling between my A500 and
RISC PC.. With just that information, and a knowledge of the econet
packet format, I was able to add the translation layer, making what
the emulated BBC Micro thought was traditional Econet operate like AUN
on the wire, and thus allow interoperability with the newer Ethernet
based machines!

It was so thrilling when the first *CAT succeeded -
http://blog.irrelevant.com/2009/05/thats-beebem-talking-to-my-a5000.html


Rob

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