Reply to post: Re: Back door in to the comms systems

The future is now, old man: Let the young guns show how to properly cock things up

jake Silver badge

Re: Back door in to the comms systems

"Was there an option to play thermonuclear war?"

That was just a batch file located on the local machine. Forced the modem to make all the correct connection noises, but didn't actually require a telephone line. Echoed the "responses" from the "far end" to the console. The version that used ANSI.SYS[0] to draw the screen was almost convincing.

[0] Or NANSI.SYS if you had clues.

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