Re: logon screen COPYRIGHT statement

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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>
>
> -----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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