For some reason this reminds me of a prank that I've heard of but never witnessed: sending a 6 foot long completely black fax. The amount of ink required, plus the heat it would generate, would really mess up a fax machine. Supposedly.
I also remember that, it was described in one of old Hackzines, I remember seeing it in Phrack or 2600 ezines, cant remember which. As I remember it, it was really easy to construct a package that contained all black without the need to actually use a black paper as its all just 0x00. There were other more "interesting" pranks. In my que of "nostalgia" articles is one about using ZIP to overwrite $Clock or to write files where they are not supposed to be extracted.
For some reason this reminds me of a prank that I've heard of but never witnessed: sending a 6 foot long completely black fax. The amount of ink required, plus the heat it would generate, would really mess up a fax machine. Supposedly.
I also remember that, it was described in one of old Hackzines, I remember seeing it in Phrack or 2600 ezines, cant remember which. As I remember it, it was really easy to construct a package that contained all black without the need to actually use a black paper as its all just 0x00. There were other more "interesting" pranks. In my que of "nostalgia" articles is one about using ZIP to overwrite $Clock or to write files where they are not supposed to be extracted.