Subj : Re: ET phone home
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Nick Andre
Date : Tue Jan 10 2017 07:08 pm

On 10 Jan 17  15:07:46, Ward Dossche said the following to Roger Nelson:

WD> RN>WD> I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my
WD> RN>WD> 29th DB-year.  Back in those days there was a pre-configured
WD> RN>WD> setting that made a rescan the first time someone linked-in to an
WD> RN>WD> echo but due to some bug it also mirrored the complete content of
WD> RN>WD> that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh header and
WD> RN>WD> everything.
WD>  
RN> That wasn't DB130, was it?  That's the version I began with.
WD>  
WD> Before 130 I think. But that's a long time ago.
WD>  
RN> Hero worship.  I remember a bunch of guys (okay, maybe a few) telling
RN> Chris that they could break his security and make their own kee, but no
RN> one that I know of succeeded.
WD>  
WD> I think the KEE-generator got hacked and unlimited numbers of KEE's could b
WD> made.

There was code in the mailer that caused two systems with the same KEE numbers
to crash upon connection. I'm not sure if the modem would be disconnected ;)

Nick

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