Comment by doggodaddo78

4 years ago

Back in the day, you could:

- Hijack TCP sessions very easily with IP hijacking, especially telnet

- DoS someone with a smurf attack

- Ping of death windoze

- Inject content into unencrypted pages (goatse everyone's web page backgrounds)

- Get hacked by running inetd services

- chargen ... nuf said

- Apply a zillion patches to a Solaris box but break 10 other things