An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing.Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had been kept by Robert Schifreen, who hacked BT’s Prestel system in 1984.He and Steve Gold took control of Prestel and penetrated the email inbox belonging to the Duke of Edinburgh.The legal case around the hack helped define computer misuse laws in the UK and around the world.Full accessThe archive contains detailed information about how the hack was carried out and the two-year legal wrangle it began.Robert Schifreen said the whole saga had begun by accident.”I was testing a modem and was typing in random numbers to see if they worked or not,” Mr Schifreen told the BBC. ”And one of them did.”The number gave access to Prestel – a basic, text-based computer system developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s that gave people an early taste of online information services.
Källa: Archive of historic BT ’email’ hack preserved – BBC News
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