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Hacking was popularized in the movie "War Games." It took a young high school student nothing more tan a 300-baud modem and a computer less powerful than some calculators to bring the would to the brink of nuclear war. Prior to this he had changed his grades form borderline passing to honor roll. This was an exploit everyone could relate...
...greatest advantage of the modem, then, is that it allows the transfer of data over ordinary phone lines, at no extra cost, barring the necessary hardware and software and paying for each phone call. The same advantage lies behind the popularization of fax technology, which allows documents to be transfered directly into hard copies...
...word "modem" was coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
...have been monitoring modem transactions" into the HUSC systems, Steen says. If access demand remains high- as it surely will as more and more students fall in love with the internet, the international network that originated with the Pentagon- funded networking research- more lines will be opened...
...mail across the country, by contrast, you have to know not only the recipient's number (or E- mail "address") but also what system he subscribes to (MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, CompuServe, Prodigy, Internet, etc.). To receive a message, you have to hook your computer to a modem, start a communications program, dial into the remote computer where your mail is stored and download the message into your computer...