Aegis said:
R.H.Campbell said:
Hehehe...right....and after replacing the keypad 10 or so times, and
spending a few years of his young life trying, he might just get it....
Combinations and purmutations......the possibilities are endless... Say,
now that might just be a good way to keep the young lad out of trouble....
RHC
Dunno if the 1000e has 4-digit combos or what... When I was a young punk (as
opposed to an older punk), my best friend would crack voicemail boxes using
that method... Longest one took him 3 hours. I didn't have the patience for
that sort of thing; even back then. [The company that he picked on the most
actually got hold of him, through one of the cracked boxes, and gave him a
free pager and voicemail setup in exchange for leaving them alone.]
The 1000e could have an installer code of up to 6 digits but user codes
could be 1 to 4 digits
I used to crack DSC panels by hand, think it would take me between 2 and 3
hours until a friend of mine designed a machine that could do it and for a
while FBI panels. I still have the device based on Toshiba industrial relays
but for some reason it no longer works properly, I was trying to get it
setup to do Napco panels but found another way around those lockouts.
It would type in the code and read keypad peizo voltage, if it got solid
voltage it would go the the next code, if it got intermittent voltage (what
a DSC panel does when you enter programming) it would stop. Used an ancient
PC2000 keypad (the one shaped like a cigarette box) and was fun to watch
when it was working. Had a connection to view the progress on a laptop and I
added an LCD display which showed the code as it was being tried. I must
have cracked a hundred panels before I quit using it.
One of these days I'll take pictures of the thing
