full-disclosure - Ancient Trivia: +++ath0

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From: rms at telekom.yu (Radule Soskic)
Subject: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:23, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Cowles, Robert D. wrote:
> 
> > Hayes implemented a "guard" ... they required a pause between the "+++"
> > and the following command. When other manufacturers implemented the
> > command set, they had to make some small changes so they could claim
> > they hadn't *completely* ripped off the Hayes command set ... they left
> > out the requirement for the pause.  So, on lots of non-Hayes modems, you
> > could get them to hang up by just sending that string as data (or
> > including it as data in a ping packet).
> 
> And another cool trick (implemented by the software, not the modem), was
> 
> NO CARRIER
> 
> at the start of a line.  <click> :-)
> 
> (Yes, I used to enjoy picking on DOS users, and still do.)

Yet another (and very old) one:

During IRC chat session, change your nick to COM1 (or COM2,3,4,
depending on which port the victim has the modem installed). 

Then, ask him/her to send you a private message...

Used to work in mirc+Win95/98, if I remember well...

cikasole