old hacks you used to do.....

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Been thinking about different hacks I've played around with over the years.

I used to be into Blue-Boxing where you could take over a telephone switchboard and make free calls to anywhere in the world, my mate showed me how to so it and we'd sit on telephone sex lines for as long as we wanted, we could control the entire system kicking punters off whenever we liked :)

Ah good times, if a little bit naughty.

Here's a Wiki page I found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box_(phreaking)

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In the very early days of the Internet I used to subscribe to various porn sites using a little program called CC Master but the less said about that the better.
 
Been thinking about different hacks I've played around with over the years.

I used to be into Blue-Boxing where you could take over a telephone switchboard and make free calls to anywhere in the world, my mate showed me how to so it and we'd sit on telephone sex lines for as long as we wanted, we could control the entire system kicking punters off whenever we liked :)

Ah good times, if a little bit naughty.

Here's a Wiki page I found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box_(phreaking)

(add extra closing bracket to above link)

In the very early days of the Internet I used to subscribe to various porn sites using a little program called CC Master but the less said about that the better.

would i be right in thinking CC stands for credit card?
 
would i be right in thinking CC stands for credit card?

Yes, but it didn't affect anyone's legit card, it only affected the site owners.

It extrapolated authentic card numbers from a genuine card, it would allow access to pay sites until the site owners realised that the card didn't exist.
 
first hack i ever did was the cartridge for my playstation

stick a legit game in load it up then swap in yer copy lol

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC
 
The very first hack was probably the 'peek' and 'poke' commands on my Speccy. I also remember doing the 'up arrow' fast load hack on the C64.

One of my better hacks in my younger days was the coat hanger in the BT payphone. As a 13yo I used to walk around with hundreds of pounds in loose change, I guess I started the pants around your knee's craze.
 
i used to flick 2p coins up the refund slot on arcade games to get credit on kung fu master

classic :proud:

not really a hack but when i was at school i used to peel the gold paper from the inside of the

packet of cigarettes use a match to rub the gold paper to 1p pieces then stick them together

to make pound coins :proud:
 
On the old unix systems, when given temp root access, I used to change the permissions, add sticky bit on a shell in my home dir. So using that I can get extended root privileges without anyone knowing. Well it was good fun then.
 
squirting ribbena down the slots of bandits, always picked a machine that was hot and that had been on all day, then straw in the top and pour it down the coin slot, the optical eye would fook up and if you were lucky would register a billion credits as it shorted and the little circuit board thought that securicor had deposited it's daily takings into it....
 
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Blocking the old phone boxes refund slot so no unused change would fall out then at the end of the day pull the blockage out bingo a couple of quid 25 years ago mind, lol.
 
The very first hack was probably the 'peek' and 'poke' commands on my Speccy. I also remember doing the 'up arrow' fast load hack on the C64.

lol, I suppose ye olde Pokes were a form of hacking. :)

What's this up arrow fast load hack? I had a C64, I don't see how pressing a button on the keyboard would make your tape deck spin faster and allow your C64 to understand the sped up audio.

You sure that wasn't an April Fool?

lol
 
Blocking the old phone boxes refund slot so no unused change would fall out then at the end of the day pull the blockage out bingo a couple of quid 25 years ago mind, lol.

Hehe my mate got collared in Glasgow doing that, he was only 13 at the time so nothing came of it.
 
Used to try and get into engineers mode in BT payphones, picking up the reciever, putting it down over and over until it finally let you in. Nothing exciting.

Managed to upgrade my user access rights at work to Administrator recently.
 
turning the gas meter round and running it back wards, before they invented that valve that only allowed gas one way....ahem.....not me and this is fictitious of course........ha remember the gas man knocking at the door one day and if you didn't answer he'd go along the street and do the rest of the calls....before calling back, then no answer he'd knock again in 4 days...... so we had every burner going and heating on full belt as we'd actually run the meter so far back that the gas company (fictitious) owed us £40 quid.....we got a bill in for 0.03 or around that figure....used half a cubic meter of gas in 4 month, (pilot light uses 4 ..haha) .....lolololl


I'll phone my lawyer
 
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turning the gas meter round and running it back wards, before they invented that valve that only allowed gas one way....ahem.....not me and this is fictitious of course........ha remember the gas man knocking at the door one day and if you didn't answer he'd go along the street and do the rest of the calls....before calling back, then no answer he'd knock again in 4 days...... so we had every burner going and heating on full belt as we'd actually run the meter so far back that the gas company (fictitious) owed us £40 quid.....we got a bill in for 0.03 or around that figure....used half a cubic meter of gas in 4 month, (pilot light uses 4 ..haha) .....lolololl


lol, I love these type of hacks :)

I've never done it myself but I'd love to, my energy bills are silly.
 
A lot of people used to threadle a film negative in the side of electric meter to stop the wheel or you could turn the whole thing upside down, that stopped the wheel registering to, not that I ever tried it of course :proud:
 
lol, I suppose ye olde Pokes were a form of hacking. :)

What's this up arrow fast load hack? I had a C64, I don't see how pressing a button on the keyboard would make your tape deck spin faster and allow your C64 to understand the sped up audio.

You sure that wasn't an April Fool?

lol

Ahhh so I take it the fast loader never travelogue that far up north.

Normal games were compressed onto a cassette and instead of getting 50 games onto a tape you could squeeze double. You'd insert the cassette and fast forward to the game of choice using the counter. Then you'd type 'up arrow' followed by the name of the game IIRC. The game would load in double quick time minus any splash screens although you still get that loading sound along with the wack colours in the borders of your TV.

Top stuff, I'm shocked you guys didn't catch onto it. Did you pay retail for all of your games?
 
for the c64 used a paperclick to bridge pins 1 and 3 (i think) on the cartidge slot so I could enter poke commands for cheating.

also drilled tiny hole in leccy meter and used straightened paperclip to stop the disk, did for one week on one week off (luckily the meter was in a high cupboard tht you needed steps to get to).
 
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taking a little bit of fishing wire....and melting a little hook on it......back in the day before the old ribena hack....lol.....fictiuos......you could slide that down the coin slot and all they had then was a little wire that used to move when a coin past it.....if you got it, made it snag you used to go up and down like looking at a picture of blondie.....and before you know it you had 20 quid to spend.....


i also remember the flicking the 2 p coin back up the slot....if you flicked it hard enough you could get it to reach the spring thing above and register you 4 games on pac man.......then after 3 weeks at haggerston castle you had to ware a plaster on your middle index due to refund slot flicking burns......still though good laugh, can't write or hold a pencil now though......glad i'm only doing soldering now...
 
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Ahhh so I take it the fast loader never travelogue that far up north.

Normal games were compressed onto a cassette and instead of getting 50 games onto a tape you could squeeze double. You'd insert the cassette and fast forward to the game of choice using the counter. Then you'd type 'up arrow' followed by the name of the game IIRC. The game would load in double quick time minus any splash screens although you still get that loading sound along with the wack colours in the borders of your TV.

Top stuff, I'm shocked you guys didn't catch onto it. Did you pay retail for all of your games?

:err:

Totally confused now, lol

Let's clear some things up before we continue.....

You haven't mentioned using any extra hardware, though I suspect that you have used some sort of turbo loader device?

I had 2 Turbo loader/backup devices, one was the original 'Action Replay' and the other was a clone made by Evesham Micros known as the 'Freeze Frame'.

Sounds to me like you knew of a way to make these types of devices cram even more games onto a tape?
 
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