How we hacked [not cracked] Opnix

This is *great*! I certainly want one of these too! :)

~Jay

..                                                ..
.. Jay Jacobson           Chief Executive Officer ..
.. Opnix, Inc.                   http://opnix.com ..
..                                                ..

Opnix, Inc. - Simply sweet Bandwidth.



On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Brian Cluff wrote:

> How we hacked [not cracked] Opnix
>
> This hack does not neccesarily only work for opnix. You can test
> the hack by executing all on one line
>
> echo `printf
> "\0103\0117\0124\0124\0117\0116\0055\0124\0105\0105\0123\0110\0111\0122\0124
> " |tee /dev/null`
>
> and check the fibers for proper configuration.
>
> The first step is to completely saturate the opnix fiber using
> UREA. This will prepare the fiber for complete spectral
> corruption.
>
> After about 10 minutes of complete saturation, you stop the
> process.
>
> Next we manipulated the routes of the fiber to cause slow downs in
> the port attacks that we will do next.
>
> Once the routing is done we applied a different attack spectrum
> from many different ports that we prepared beforehand. This will
> cause great corruption in the fiber. When the fiber has become
> sufficently corrupt, you can find other things to do for most of
> the day, happy that you have probably done a successfull hack.
>
> A number of hours after we had corrupted the fiber we wanted
> to flush all traces of our attack. It took sevral attempts to
> completely flush all traces.
>
> You can see screenshots of our hack at:
> http://www.snaptek.com/opnixfiberhack/
>
>
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