I and a friend discovered this vulnerability in 1984 or 1985, and I wrote my own little terminal program with Xmodem built in to take advantage of it. Those were the days ...
(I still have the source code and of course it was called "Leech". Back then that was a generic term for somebody who downloaded far more than they uploaded, so it was a naturally good name.)
#retrocomputing
mbbrutman
npub185…5nxe0
2025-07-24 04:42:05 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tedk
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