It's been 40 years since #EmmanuelGoldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing @2600: The #Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first #phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:
Urban Putt Denver is, sadly, closing its doors. However, there is an opportunity to rescue a one-of-a-kind stand up arcade game/mini golf "hole" before it ends up in the scrap heap.
Bunker Blast 3000 was designed to resemble a retro 1980s arcade game. As a mini-golf hole, the game is played by putting into a ramp underneath the "arcade" display. Sensors inside the game read the ball's velocity and angle, and the game renders a virtual ball on the screen, rolling through a "game grid" like environment reminiscent of Tron. The game then kicks the ball out for subsequent putt attempts.
The unit is 36 inches wide and roughly 5 to 6 feet tall. It features a color display and custom software that exists as a one-of-a-kind homage to classic arcade games.
Here's the deal though: This unit needs to be moved THIS SUNDAY, June 11th, when the dismantling of Urban Putt will be going on.
If you know someone who wants, or you yourself want, a collectible and irreplaceable, fully functional and FUN AS HELL objet-d'art for your living room, barcade, or museum, my friend, Urban Putt CEO Steve Fox, will GIVE YOU the item at no charge, if you can bring enough people and a vehicle large enough to carry it away.
DM me for serious inquiries, only. No, it's too heavy to ship out of Colorado unless you're going to put it in your own box truck and carry it yourself.
Hi #InfoSec fediverse: Can you recommend "hacker type" people, who still actively post here?
Doesn't have to be particularly infosec related, I simply want my timeline to be filled with more technical/interesting/clever/creative hacker mindset stuff.
I received some preprocessed records from the #FBI today relating to a #FOIA request for records on Chaos Computer Club in 1987. Preprocessed means they were already released to someone else, but I am not sure they were ever released publicly? #CCC#hacker#hacking#history#histodons
Das ist so absurd. Man weiß wirklich nicht, ob man lachen oder weinen soll. phpMyAdmin ist offenbar ein »gefährliches Hackertool« im Sinne des Hackerparagrafen 202a StGB. Wenn der Gesetzgeber das JETZT nicht ändert, dann war es das mit der Responsible Disclosure. Wenn man jetzt noch dafür belangt wird, überlegt man sich zweimal, ob man die Daten nicht gleich gewinnbringend verkauft... 🤦♂️
Il libro “Aggiustare il mondo” di Giovanni #Ziccardi sull’ #hacker Aaron #Swartz rappresenta un ottimo caso di applicazione della licenza #CreativeCommons CC BY-SA: pubblicato dalla nostra casa editrice in formato PDF e EPUB, è disponibile anche su #Wikimedia in formato HTML, un esempio concreto delle possibilità di condivisione e disseminazione offerte dalle pratiche di #OpenScience.
Managed to track down a CBS news segment on hackers from August of 1985. It covered #hacking credit records via compromised TRW accounts, hackers on ARPANET, #hacker BBSes, a brief interview with Richard Sandza, a Newsweek journalist who was harassed by #hackers because of articles he wrote exposing aspects of the computer underground of 1984 and some brief interview segments with various anonymous hackers. https://archive.org/details/57-cbs-news-hacking-segment-1985
So, in case anyone still thinks that patching and security in general is not so important nowadays: Found already several tries of exploiting the recent critical CVE-2023-7028 vulnerability in the logs of my GitLab instance although it was only published a few days ago.
Conclusion:
✅ Install security updates literally ASAP.
✅ Turn on mandatory 2FA for all users.
Clip in which a #hacker appears on New Zealand TV show 'The South Tonight', which aired on 1st of April, 1985. Video segment shows an anonymous hacker guessing passwords for an observatory computer & then trying to access US military systems, on camera. #hacking#hackers#history#histodons
I'll be coming through Oakland, CA in mid Feb. While I'm there I'll be hosting Sound Hackers at Circuit Launch with my friend Beau. It's part "bring-a-hack" projects on tables and part short talks/demos/performance.
Like bleeps and bloops? Like making things? Come along!
How do I disable these silly warnings? Security issues don't affect me, I have Windows Defender enabled, McAfee antivirus, I use Nord VPN, and I've block the hashtags #Hackers, #EdwardSnowden, #Hacker, #Hacking, & #HackThePlanet. My Raspberry Pi server is Fort Knox.
Fediverse users that are also Xfinity customers drop everything and go change your account security details. Data breach may affect approx 35+ million customers. Attackers may have obtain username, passwords, contact info, social scurity numbers, secret questions and answers ...