How we hacked [not cracked] Opnix

[John Kloian III]

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/  John Kloian III                                 Chief Technology Officer  /
/  OpNIX, Inc.                                             http://opnix.com  /
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/                      .Simply chocoliscious bandwidth.                      /
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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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