Well, I suggest the Mitnick Method: Call him up, pretending to be someone from his ISP, and have him give you his IP address and his Administrator or root password. Gabe On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote: > I have a friend who has dared me to get into his computer. He is running a > cable modem in Woodbury. I don't know which ISP. After boasting about all > the benefits of this great high speed connection, I asked if he ran any > kind of firewall. He told me that indeed, one was not necessary. His > ISP told him he was covered. He also runs no kind of antivirus > software. I told him "you're nuts", he told me "I double dog dare you to > hack me". Alas, I have zero experience in this area, but I would love to > prove a point. Any suggestions? Please, nothing too cruel. > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------