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Back Orifice (1998)
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Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#42I used to use this tool to mess with my college computer class professor. Me and a buddy installed it on the teachers computer that she used to instruct the class. We did mostly innocent stuff like closing windows or messing with the browser a bit. Occasionally we would reboot her computer when it was close to the end of class and we didn’t want to start something new. We’re both still coders to this day.
I'm wondering if people like you have grown up to be the people who break user interfaces needlessly, write cookie popups, integrate ads and telemetry, and force updates on things that don't need them.
In other words, did you grow out of your childish shenanigans or are you just getting paid for them now?
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#43Classmate got expelled from high school for installing this on school computer
My very first “school computer incident” was so innocent by comparison for most people.
I was maybe 11 and I was learning about batch files and I made one named win.bat that printed “hello”. Well I’m sure most folks know what happened next time the computer rebooted …hello hello hello hello hello…and the computer teacher said I had installed a virus and tried to kick me out of school. Luckily I was only expelled from computer class for the rest of the year.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#44People may not remember but the name was a pun on "BackOffice" which was a Microsoft product at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BackOffice_Server Back Orifice was basically a rootkit avant la lettre.
The Back Orifice logo was also a play on the MS Back Office logo but with a goatse twist. CotDC were a cheeky bunch :D
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#45Oh boy! We used to have a lot of fun with this back in high school!
Same. Nowadays kids get expelled for this!
As more of our lives have become intertwined with computing infrastructure, why shouldn't they be? If you routinely broke classroom resources or messed with the HVAC you'd probably be expelled too.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#46Pretty sure someone used this to make my CD-ROM eject once, and that was very disconcerting.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#47Oh man brings back so many memories of messing with friends. There was even a doom version that modeled monsters after system processes allowing you to shoot and kill the processes and watch them die
psdoom still exists:
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Though I'm skeptical it was ever part of a windows root kit.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#48Ahhh the CDC.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#49I installed this on a pc at work when it came out to see what it could do.
I must have forgot to shut it off because there was a gang of security people in my office the next morning.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#50I installed this on a pc at work when it came out to see what it could do. I must have forgot to shut it off because there was a gang of security people in my office the next morning.
It seems you've been living ... two lives, Mr. Anderson.