I was 12-13 years old, remembered, because criminal responsibility in our country comes from 14, and I did not do anything then, which you will not say about parents )))
One day, when I called my friend, I stumbled on the auto-responder, and somehow pressed the button * on the number-receiver (I understand what sounds, as it is not very plausible, but try to believe it; -)) After pressing this key, the auto-responder silenced, and my curiosity did not give me peace, I began to press on everything in a row, I sat so min 10, then re-called, already deliberately pressed the star, and again the auto-responder stopped the conversation, I understood that he was waiting for something ) At that age I still did not realize that I was essentially doing 'Brutsford', searching for possible combinations of passwords on the auto-responder. But since the password was 2x significant (I learned about it later) pick it up wasn’t difficult, but so far you don’t know it, you just sit and knock on all the buttons in a row waiting for a miracle. I didn’t even know what to expect and just waited. And then at one point, the auto respondent spoke again, but not with the voice of my girlfriend’s mother, but in English, that’s kind of press seven to write new message, etc., because my mom has an English teacher, I didn’t need special hints, I pressed the number 7, he offered to write a message, what I said, damn that what I could then say, unknown how, I hacked someone else’s auto respondent, I’m damned, I understand people who hack the site of some organization and leave there an image with unnecessary content, I just said JOPA ), re-called and I replied, with a joyful greeting of 4 letters.
And here, as it turned out, all the city services 001, 060, (weather and time), all the movie theaters, etc., were subjected to such a simple method. You call, you press * during the auto-responder's conversation, after he silences you pick the combinations from 00-99 and any of them, you are answered by a familiar English voice. I imagined the faces of adults who were calling to know the weather, and to them some small shit said that the weather would not be, or today -120 )) Here such fun was, I told all my friends, and now there was a bunch of auto responders not only from my side but also from all the small shit of the area ).
This continued for 2 months, and frankly, we were not tired of it ) Well, there was no internet, comps in essence were also special, what else was done to technically gifted crooks? )))
And one day, out of stupidity, or impunity, looking at the news, where every day something exploded at the time. We called the local movie theater, broke the auto response, spoke of all sorts of heresy about terrorists, and that they were bored to watch stupid movies and the like... Well you understand... In the evening of the same day, they knocked on my door. My mom opened, and I heard, hello, there was something in the FSB, and the head was dim, it was scary, the legs trembled, and I understood who they came for. We went to the department where I naturally confessed everything. I was told that they cancelled 2 sessions at the cinema, at the time the only one in my city (there was a second, but no one went to it), and the march will have to pay all the damages, etc., and in general you understand what puzzles I picked up at home, as well as my companion with whom we carried all that shame. The desire to hack other people's respondents fell instantly, but fortunately the owners of the cinema did not file a lawsuit against us (thanks to them for this) and we managed only a fine, and payment for the services of filmologists, etc.
In fact, this is the story with auto-responders ends, but there is not much interesting from my childhood, I will try to put it out, as the muse appears.
Everyone is good)