Does anyone collect old software?

From: Mzthompson_at_aol.com <(Mzthompson_at_aol.com)>
Date: Thu Oct 19 10:54:43 2000

 Zane <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:

>> What's "direct access?"

> Basically you start with a selection of items, and when you select one it
> allows you to either run an app or go to another menu (not sure how deep you
> can go on menus). Has at least some sort of password protect on stuff, as I
> recall though not terribly secure.

The phrase 'not terribly secure' is being nice. Given a password of

1234

whose bits are

01000001 01000010 01000011 01000100

The password was stored in a config file with the characters of the
password reversed

4321

and IIRC, the bits were reversed also.

00100010 11000010 01000010 10000010

I worked in a TV Studio years ago and the production manager was a butthead.

When he wasn't around I would go to the computer in the main office and
pop in a floppy and reboot. The autoexec ran a program I wrote which
decoded the passwords and wrote them to a file on the floppy and then
rebooted the machine bringing it right back into Direct Access. It was
months before he caught on.

Mike
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 10:54:43 BST