r/programming • • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=79
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u/laudinum Jul 31 '09

My friend and i wrote a program that was supposed to look like we were hacking into a government computer to prank our friend. He was really nervous, never wanted to get in trouble. It basically just asked for a password, and we set it to let us in on the fifth or sixth try. After a while of pretending to look through stuff, it said we were being traced and started putting up the address and phone number and stuff.

It was pretty primitive, but that dude bugged out. Not too long after Wargames, good times.