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Why Did Old PCs Have Locks On Them, And Why Don't They Have Them Anymore?

Why Did Old PCs Have Locks On Them, And Why Don't They Have Them Anymore?
Digital security used to be a lot more analog, and it made sense at the time.
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  1. Dennis Kingsland 11 months ago

    In the early 90's one of the supervisors had a PC that people were constantly changing the screen saver to some rather rude messages. (Good guy, people just messed with him in good fun.) He went and spent around $500 on software to keep people from doing that. His mistake was bragging that no one could. ever get into his computer again just a little too loudly. In the early 90's the computer checked the floppy before going to the hard drive to boot up. So a pair of 'unknown' individuals got a boot disk, got into the system and changed the screen saver message to "30 seconds". Good times...


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