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The Register: L0pht develops Palm Pilot war dialler

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 29, 2000

“Self-styled ‘ethical hacking’ outfit L0pht Heavy Industries has
developed a free war-dialling utility for use with the Palm
operating system. Known as TBA, the programme combines carrier
logging, data-file manipulation, calling-card dialling options, and
a handy battery meter display.”

“The purpose of this nifty little toy is to enable network
administrators to test their security.
Right, we’re sure no
one would, say, use it with a phreaked calling card to break into a
remote system…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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