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That is actually a way to steal user ids and passwords. The user just thinks they keyed it wrong and tries again, and the program calls the normal initial program, leaving them signed on as usual

On 2/11/2015 5:05 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:
Another good way to mess with the users is to make the initial menu screen
look just like the sign on screen. :-)

Paul Nelson
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Office 409-267-4027
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yvan
Janssens
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 3:08 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: logon screen COPYRIGHT statement

I had some similar fun a while ago:


I ended up with a small character set conversion glitch for the exclamation
mark in the end though.

If I look really really hard I think I might still have the tool I made for
this; it was a C# program which took a .txt file with ascii art input and
converted it to a DDS spec.
?

2015-02-10 22:59 GMT+00:00 Cyndi Bradberry <CyndiB@xxxxxxxx>:

3.141592653589793238462643
3.14159265358979323846264338 System:
OOOOOOOO
3.141592653589793238462643383 Subsystem:
OOOOOOOOOO
3.14 1592 6535 Happy Display:
OOOOOOOOOO
3.14 1592 65358
3.1 41592 6535 Pi
3.1415 9265
3.1415 92653 Day
3.141 5926 March 14 (3/14)
3.14 1592
3.141 59265 Happy Birthday Albert Einstein
3.1415 92653
3.14 15926 Born March 14, 1879
3.141 59265 35
3.141 592653 58 Idaho Housing and Finance
Association
3.14159 26535 89
3.141592 6535897932384
3.141592 65358979323 User:
BBBBBBBBBB
3.1415 92653589 Password:
3.14 159



We left the copyright but had fun with the signons. We have a stable of
them and rotate them thru the year. A co-worker created this one, it gets
a
laugh from the company about us being geeks !

Cyndi B.
Boise, ID

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