This section of files contains how-tos and stories centered around the dark flipside of the BBS world: BBS hacking. This is the process of somehow breaking into a BBS program, the actual program that runs the BBS, and then either halting it, deleting it, or otherwise taking down the machine.
By doing this, of course, the users would bring to a crashing halt the only line of communication that community had; the single machine that everyone's words and thoughts were being kept. Taken from this perspective, it seems foolish, but in some locations there were a lot of BBSes, and in many cases, the BBS would be back up, shaken but not gone, by the next morning.
One can make an argument for the feeling of power this might give a young modem user. One also can't discount the scads of bland, uninteresting BBSes that populated the landscape, who only provided an interest to those who could penetrate its meager defenses and shake it by the scruff of the neck.
Of course, the software designed for bulletin boards in the 1980's was often the work of programmers using their spare time, so while the security would be existent, it would not be bulletproof. In the case of some programs (like the GBBS software), the code would be in something like the BASIC computer language, and certain Back Doors that had been put into the program were then known to all. By giving these BBS programs the wrong information at the right time, users could make the system die, or worse, get access to the command prompt of the BBS computer, causing havok all over the place.
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abusebbs.txt | 10527 | The BBS Abusing Handbook by The Joker
| abuser.txt | 10950 | The Best Ways to Abuse a BBS by The Joker
| applenet.ana | 3264 | How to have Fun with Apple-Net BBSes
| applhak | 1973 | Hacking Apple BBSes: A Collection of Hints
| b-door.txt | 959 | Backdoor for PCExpress V1.0 Registered by iLLeGaL e?Ror
| batdis.txt | 7871 | Computer Terror and Destruction Issue #1: BBS Infiltration
| bbsenter.hac | 3940 | BBS Crashing Techniques, by Mr. Memorex
| bbshack.txt | 18874 | The Really Fine Art of BBS Hackingm by Vortex of HIT Inc.
| beepoff.bgr | 3859 | Creating Beeping BBS Annoyance, by Abigwar
| board.des | 3072 | Destroying an Apple II Board by Doctor Crunch
| bom-hack.txt | 12007 | How to Hack Your Favorite BBS Systems by Raven of BOM
| breakbbs | 4425 | What to Do When You Break Into a BBS, by Doctor Crunch
| crashae.hac | 1495 | Crashing AE Lines, by Delta Master
| crashc.txt | 7629 | The How to File on Crasking a C-Net Part Two by Ditto and Shlomo
| crashcom.txt | 5949 | How to Crash a Commodore BBS, by The Highwayman of Chaotic Computing
| crashem.ana | 8884 | What to Do when you Break into a BBS, by Dr. Crunch
| crshgbbs.hac | 3770 | How to Crash GBBS II Boards
| crshnw.txt | 10752 | Crashing Networks, the Causes and Prevention, by the Oracle of Delos
| forum.hac | 7012 | Crashing Forum Boards by Panther Man
| frymodem.txt | 2518 | The Anti Modem Weapon by Amiga Trading Board BBS
| hack-pcb.txt | 3744 | A Simple Way to Hack Around PC-BOARD And Succeed by Sniper
| hack6.txt | 4544 | System Crusher Part II or How to Crash a BBS II, by Grim Raper and Mind Master (October 1987)
| hackcom.txt | 6438 | DOCUMENTATION: HackBBS v0.2 COM Only Version by Virogen (June 29, 1993)
| hacker.txt | 6265 | Attention all PC Board Sysops! Beware of a User Called RAM DRIVE!
| hackrene.txt | 4736 | Hacking Into Renegade BBSes by Slide N Gutz
| hackrg.txt | 1766 | A Serious Flaw in Renegade BBS Software
| hacktlgd.txt | 1757 | How to Hack into a Telegard Board by Caramon Majere
| hackwwiv.txt | 7790 | Hacking into WWIV, Second Edition by Vision
| hermes.hak | 3307 | Hermes Back-Door (Hacking the Hermes BBS Software) by Dookie (November 13, 1992)
| hermes_backdoor.txt | 2144 | How to Become a Sysop on Any Hermes System (December 13, 1992)
| hhackin4 | 14917 | Hacking the Oxgate Public Bulletin Board System by The 0mega & Lord Vision
| hobo.txt | 100631 | Havok Crashes a BBS and Prints out a Userlist (December, 1993)
| kevin.txt | 5231 | Kevin Dahlstedt describes major security breaches in Wildcat! BBSes
| killbird2.ana | 4096 | How to Crash a BBS Part II by Grim Reaper
| killwwiv.txt | 4480 | Kill the Lamer SysOP's Computer! By the Crypt Keeper and The Evil Master
| lol14.txt | 14054 | Hacking & Crashing: Emulex/2, Forum Hacks, WWiV, and Telegard by Legions of Lucifer and PHUCK (January 15, 1991)
| majorbbs.txt | 1138 | Some MajorBBS Backdoors, by Enigma
| mish19.txt | 13056 | Networks (BBS Program Hacking) by The MinuteMan (May 26th, 1984)
| net-work.txt | 4825 | A Tutorial On how to Fuck Up Net-Works, by The Minuteman, 3/26/1984
| ra.txt | 5402 | Fun with Random Access BBS Software, by Vince Niel
| rbbs.crs | 3954 | How to Destroy an RBBS-PC System by Mad Hacker
| real-ra.txt | 12665 | Why the "Fun with RA boards" hacking method is LAME (The REAL way to hack RemoteAccess) by ByTe RyDeR
| renehack.txt | 8325 | Hacking Renegade 07-17 by Tokyo of PSW
| rghf.txt | 2102 | DOCUMENTATION: Renegade History Finder (June 1993) by Kris Greer
| rgst.txt | 3839 | DOCUMENTATION: Renegade Smart Trojan (June, 1993)
| rrg-wwv2.txt | 11671 | The Rebel Riting Guild: Having Phun on WWIV II by The Evil Master (December 3, 1991)
| rrg-wwv3.txt | 9978 | The Rebel Riting Guild: Having Phun on WWIV III by the Evil Master (December 9, 1991)
| screwbbs.txt | 10600 | The Best Way to Abuse a BBS
| telefard.hac | 2137 | How to hack into a Telegard board, by Carmon Majere
| trash.pcb | 3134 | How People Crash a 10.0 PCBOARD, by Jeremy Kruse (Ninja)
| wildcat.hck | 6694 | How to hack WildCat! 4.0 by RoBoTiC HaMSTeR
| wildcat.txt | 1664 | how to Hack Wildcat by Virus in 1994
| wwivcrakdoc.hac | 5576 | Kill the lamer SysOp's computer! By The Crypt Keeper and The Evil Master of WCCP
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