Hacking Windows 95!

Important warning: this is a beginners lesson. BEGINNERS. Will all you super k-rad elite haxors out there
just skip reading this one, instead reading it and feeling all insulted at how easy it is and then emailing me to
bleat "This GTMHH iz 2 ezy your ****** up,wee hate u!!!&$%" Go study something that seriously
challenges your intellect such as "Unix for Dummies," OK?
Have you ever seen what happens when someone with an America Online account posts to a hacker news
group, email list, or IRC chat session? It gives you a true understanding of what "flame" means, right?
Now you might think that making fun of dumb.newbie@aol.com is just some prejudice. Sort of like how
managers in big corporations don't wear dreadlocks and fraternity boys don't drive Yugos.
But the real reason serious hackers would never use AOL is that it doesn't offer Unix shell accounts for its
users. AOL fears Unix because it is the most fabulous, exciting, powerful, hacker-friendly operating system
in the Solar system... gotta calm down ... anyhow, I'd feel crippled without Unix. So AOL figures offering
Unix shell accounts to its users is begging to get hacked.
Unfortunately, this attitude is spreading. Every day more ISPs are deciding to stop offering shell accounts
to their users.
But if you don't have a Unix shell account, you can still hack. All you need is a computer that runs Windows
95 and just some really retarded on-line account like America Online or Compuserve.
In this Beginner's Series #2 we cover several fun things to do with Windows and even the most hackerhostile
Online services. And, remember, all these things are really easy. You don't need to be a genius. You
don't need to be a computer scientist. You don't need to won an expensive computer. These are things
anyone with Windows 95 can do.
Section One: Customize your Windows 95 visuals. Set up y our startup, background and logoff screens so
as to amaze and befuddle your non-hacker friends.
Section Two: Subvert Windows nanny programs such as Surfwatch and the setups many schools use in the
hope of keeping kids from using unauthorized programs. Prove to yourself -- and your friends and
coworkers -- that Windows 95 passwords are a joke.
Section Three: Explore other computers -- OK, let's be blatant -- hack -- from your Windows home computer
using even just AOL for Internet access.