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My last name contains the character sequence "rz". Back in the BBS days this would trigger a Zmodem transfer on certain clients. It made a lot of people upset.
by koz1000 2y ago
My last name contains the character sequence "rz".
Back in the BBS days this would trigger a Zmodem transfer on certain clients. It made a lot of people upset.
- dsr_ 2y agoIf you were using a dial-up modem and sending raw data -- extremely common -- then sending +++ATH0 would cause most modems to hang up. If you could get that sent over to someone else, their session would be abruptly terminated. (Hayes patented requiring a no-data-sent time between the +++ and the ATH0. Avoiding the patent but being otherwise compatible introduced the vulnerability. In-band signalling is usually bad.)