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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture.

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Been reading about the case of Edward Austin Singh in the UK, a who was caught physically trespassing in a Teesside Polytechnic college computer lab, while connected to various computers, by UK police in 1988.

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Apparently the US Secret Service had become aware of Singh's hacking activities that touched on US government, military and corporate systems and there was some attempt to lure him to the US for arrest before the UK authorities eventually stepped in.

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From The Sydney Morning Herald, 7th November, 1988:

"US Secret Service officials have flown to London to interview Singh in the presence of senior Scotland Yard detectives... A spokesman for the US Justice Department said Singh could face wire fraud or even treason charges"

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huh, a filelist of pwa's old dump from october 1999 got uploaded to defacto2: https://defacto2.net/f/b01a8a4?name=-&platform=-§ion=-&sort=posted_desc

"Intel Inside" indeed (some intel employees donated hardware for that server, which was paid for at intel's expense; in return the intel employees mirrored the entire thing to intel's corpnet, see the indictment press release from some months later: https://webharvest.gov/peth04/20041016013343/http://cybercrime.gov/pirates.htm )

maybe @realhackhistory would be interested in this?

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@Rairii a little outside my area of interest but PWA rings some bells memory wise!

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Missed this when it first hit BBC but I think this "thought to be the first time a country has awarded hackers for malicious and possibly criminal hacks" is incorrect as I believe Assad gave similar awards to the Syrian Electronic Army a decade ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68722542

realhackhistory, to hacking
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Can anyone help me find references, videos or news reports relating to this, as seen in The Sydney Morning Herald, 7th November 1988?

It concerns a incident and Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens in, I think, October of 1988.

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I had never heard of any of this.

From The Spokesman-Review, 13th May, 1989.

"In October, a computer hacker revealed how he entered the Belgian government's computer system and for several months read the electronic mail of about 10 Cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Wilfried Martens.
The hacker said he even met other "burglars" in the system, which had confidential information such as details on terrorist killings and the agenda of weekly Cabinet meetings."

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Also sorry, this is just too much lol:

Claus Ehlermann said the hackers were "individuals just having fun"

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@miah I'm so curious if there are any photos or footage, this is a crazy story.

realhackhistory, to hacking
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The story of the first person convicted of planting a destructive computer virus, Donald Gene Burleson, from the March 1989 issue of Texas Monthly. This is a great write up of the story behind an incident that had taken place in 1985 and the resulting court case.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/search-and-destroy/

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Fantastic illustration too.

realhackhistory, to random
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Just like the Crypto Wars the War on Piracy never really ended.
https://disconnect.blog/hollywood-is-reviving-its-war-on-piracy/

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@Bartmoss_h4x0r I would if I could! Found it in a thread on twitter and didn't realize it was paywalled until after I posted the link :(

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@whitefish Soulseek still exists!

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Still combing through 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 conviction reversed, he'd managed to cyberstalk women in 1984! Unbelievable this was already a thing back then.

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"His actions were uncovered in August 1984 when another officer found photographs of young women attached to computer printout sheets in the communications center."

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Olson, according to the investigating officers, admitted his uses of the computer "were not part of any official inquiry. but were solely for his own use for some sort of collection he called his 'Rogues' Gallery'"

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Love that this story isn't framed as "creeper corrupt cop wins appeal" but "hacker wins appeal".

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A really weird story, from the Boca Raton News, 29th of September, 1987.

" use AIDS hotline illegally
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Computer hackers are using a national AIDS hotline to spread information on illegal use of telephone credit cards, an AT&T spokesman said Monday."

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I'm assuming they were able to drop out of whatever automated system was reciting the pre-recorded message on AIDS and then create or listen to other messages?

realhackhistory, to hacking
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Another release, this time on the 2004 'MyDoom' worm. This is 22 pages that had already been processed, I've asked for further records to be processed for later release.

https://archive.org/details/MyDoom-FBI-FOIA

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https://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/29/mydoom.future.reut/

realhackhistory, to hacking
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Proof that people caught up in #hacking related investigations back in the day were not all young guys.

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I love these illustrations, this one from The Spokesman-Review, on the 24th of July, 1987.

Kids clustered around a computer screen, the skateboard that got them all busted even makes an appearance.

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Also this one, from the Toledo Blade, 9th of December, 1987.

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