realhackhistory

realhackhistory, 7 months ago to hacking

I'm currently working on taking & cleaning up the audio from a VHS rip of 1983's Whiz Kids in English and the video from the French DVD release and putting together a best effort version of the pilot episode "Programmed for Murder".
#hacking #hacker #history

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realhackhistory, 9 months ago to random

My cat Phaedra died today, she had been battling chronic illness for too much of her short life and today was time for her fight to end.
Keep your loved ones close to you regardless of species, we never realize how brief life can be until it is too late.

realhackhistory, 7 months ago to random

You can follow my WordPress blog directly for updates over at @realhackhistory.org@realhackhistory.org

realhackhistory, 9 months ago to history

While I was away at Chaos Camp a #FOIA CD-ROM arrived from the FBI with files in response to my request for records on early 2010s hacking group UGNazi. I will be uploading the files to Internet Archive once I get settled back in at home.
#hackinh #history #histodons

FOIA document dated June 27th, 2012, detailing hacking group UGNazi taking over and stealing various domains.

realhackhistory, 9 months ago to random

From earlier today, #ccamp23 ❤️

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realhackhistory, 8 months ago to hacking

A #hacking song recounted by the author of the "The New #hackers Handbook" (1986) Huge Cornwall in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald in October of 1989.
#history #histodons

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realhackhistory, 9 months ago to random

I’m back on #Libera IRC, anyone else on #IRC these days? Any channel recommendations?

realhackhistory, 8 months ago to hacking

Finally getting this blog published, on how the year 1983 changed the way #hackers were seen in pop culture and the news forever. I cover WarGames, Whiz Kids & #hacking groups the 414s & Inner Circle.
#hacker #history #histodons
https://realhackhistory.org/2023/09/29/1983-the-year-pop-culture-caught-up-with-hackers/

realhackhistory, 1 year ago to random

An account of virus writing & distribution in 80s and 90s Bulgaria, with the added mystique of the infamous Dark Avenger
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/may/09/on-the-trail-of-the-dark-avenger-the-most-dangerous-virus-writer-in-the-world

realhackhistory, 11 months ago to threads

Facebook has a history of being hostile to both infosec practitioners, platform security transparency and hackers, #Threads is bolted on to a company that is antithetical to the hacker ethic.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/facebook-blocks-guardian-story/

realhackhistory, 8 months ago to hacking

"A Wave of Computer Crimes - Data Diddling on the Rise", Muriel Dobbin, Baltimore Sun, 14th of July 1983.

"Already established in the annals of computer crime are the Phantom, who cost a San Francisco corporation $250,000 by feeding obscene messages into its machines"
#hacking #hacker #history

realhackhistory, 8 months ago to random

Threads is rolling out a cool new popular feature, separated Threads account deletion.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/meta-says-separate-account-deletion-for-threads-will-roll-out-by-december/amp/

realhackhistory, 15 days ago to random

I’ll never use AI to research, write or create anything I am working on for realhackhistory, if the video editing or writing is bad that’s all on me and I wouldn’t have it any other way 🫡

realhackhistory, 4 months ago to random

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realhackhistory, 4 months ago to random

Future Mastodon feature?

realhackhistory, 3 months ago to random

It is intensely ghoulish and disturbing the way American infosec influencers fantasize and joke about launching missiles at hackers, like those hackers won’t be in residential neighborhoods and as if damaging property is worthy of a summary execution without trial. Really sick stuff.

realhackhistory, 3 months ago to random

I'm just going to have to break down and do a blog about mid-90's DoS tools, aren't I?

realhackhistory, 3 months ago to random

Big news over on the social media site that has become absolutely infested with scammers, fascist trolls and bots.

realhackhistory, 2 months ago to random

Avalon (2001)

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realhackhistory, 1 month ago to random

19 pages of pre-processed #FOIA documents from the #FBI in response to my request for records relating to "PC Cyborg Corporation", a front company used in the first ever #ransomware attack, back in 1989. I have requested further documents are processed.
https://archive.org/details/PC-Cyborg-FOIA

realhackhistory, 1 month ago to hacking

Still combing through #hacker stories in news archives from 1987 & what the hell is this.

As reported in The Albany Herald in April of 1987, this cop had his #hacking conviction reversed, he'd managed to cyberstalk women in 1984! Unbelievable this was already a thing back then.

realhackhistory, 1 month ago to random

I need these.

realhackhistory, 5 days ago to random

This Roger Ebert review for Swordfish tells me he had never hung around hackers with mechanical keyboards.

realhackhistory, 4 months ago to mastodon

Me trying to show my normie friends #Mastodon.

realhackhistory, 29 days ago to hacking

Uploaded some court documents from an appeal by Electra, a phone phreak who was caught up in Operation Sun Devil for hacking voicemail systems and sharing calling card codes.
#hacker #hacking #history
https://archive.org/details/com.-v.-gerulis