Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
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Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
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Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#2With .net ported back to 95, one should get his security
ready too.
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#3Computers have kind of "converged on boring". This isn't a bad thing, obviously; a computer is a tool and you generally want your tools to work as expected without surprises. Basically any computer with any operating system you would use in the last fifteen or so years works basically "as-expected", more or less. The security models work alright, they don't really crash, and do their job.
This is boring though! I remember when I had an early Windows 95 machine, I genuinely kind of had fun figuring how to break things. I mean, hell, when I discovered you could click "cancel" on the login screen and get a default user so I didn't need to get my parents to unlock it, it felt like I was accessing forbidden knowledge. I think even at the time I knew that was a bit janky. That was kind of the 90's computing experience though; everything was kind of held together with ducktape and prayers, and it kind of worked.
It's probably weird to have nostalgia for a time when everything was a little broken, but what can I say?
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#4Computers have kind of "converged on boring". This isn't a bad thing, obviously; a computer is a tool and you generally want your tools to work as expected without surprises. Basically any computer with any operating system you would use in the last fifteen or so years works basically "as-expected", more or less. The security models work alright, they don't really crash, and do their job. This is boring though! I rem…
It's still there, it's just Windows that became boring.
Take the most plain Ubuntu system and looking for "window manager" - there are dozens of hits! Install "wmaker" for that classical look and spend a few hours picking up the set of dockapps you like. Try a dynamic tiling manager and a static one.
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#5Computers have kind of "converged on boring". This isn't a bad thing, obviously; a computer is a tool and you generally want your tools to work as expected without surprises. Basically any computer with any operating system you would use in the last fifteen or so years works basically "as-expected", more or less. The security models work alright, they don't really crash, and do their job. This is boring though! I rem…
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#7Security just wasn’t huge back then. I remember once not having log in credentials so I was able to create a new admin account at the start up and then delete the old password on the original account. It was rather trivial to break into a pc back then.
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#8The "login" dialog on Windows 95 was just providing network credentials. Windows 95 is a single-user OS. There is no actual login or security.
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#9In a similar flavour, on older versions of Mac OSX, you could touch an initial setup file and reboot which would start the out of box experience and let you make a new admin user if you ever found yourself locked out of one for some reason. Modern disk encryption put an obvious stop to that…
Re: Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
#10I always thought that GIF was of NT 4, not Win95, because the Logon box has a Domain field. Question mark ?