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As promised another update after everyone here were so generous in their sharing of ideas last time… It's all shaping up nicely. Next I will be getting my game CyberTrain Game (think Sim City meets Railroad Tycoon on a Cyberpunk monorail system in early 3D) up and running inside the fictional emulated system.
And also a few social engineering stuff as well, which is what I wanted to ask some of you…
My plan for the social engineering task… Changing the hcaker group's high school grades via the High School's Mainframe!?
Using the computer’s inbuilt modem and the cracker’s BBS system, I’m thinking of having the player send an email to the hacker group’s school librarian, pretending to be someone from an alternate-history, Japanese-based version of AT&T.
The librarian gives the player three phone numbers, and the player must work out which one connects to the school’s mainframe modem. Once that’s done, the player has to dial in and log in using the poor librarian’s passcode.
After logging in, a LOTUS 1-2-3–style file system opens (it’s 1989), where the player must locate the spreadsheet or database containing the grades for the four hackers. The task is to change C’s to A’s just before the report cards are sent to the school office’s dot-matrix printer for printing and posting, adding a time constraint and some much-needed drama.
For immersive purposes, I’m planning to have the principal’s office answer one of the calls, the receptionist answer another, a fax machine pick up another, and the modem be the correct one.
I was wondering if any of you guys had any insteresting ideas for this, I think in a nutshell this would be a cool way to go, I have the BBSs setup, the email systems, and the modem, so maybe this could just be it with the clock ticking. Keen to hear your thoughts.