Date   : Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:57:07 +0100
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: Request for Help - Security Research Project

I think the SJ servers had *login which encrypted the password on the wire.

Of course one could write a key logger fairly easily by hooking onto one
of the vectors.

My school left the MDFS key in System all the time do having got SYST grabbing
a copy of %passwords for later perusal got you everyone's password.

Sent from my iPhone

On 2 Nov 2011,@16:07, "Rick Murray"<rick@...> wrote:

> 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 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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