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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.

If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you.

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in , it is alleged that the author of the 'Chernobyl' virus is none other than a former Taiwanese engineering student Chen Ing-hau.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201127181353/https://www.wired.com/1999/04/cih-virus-culprit-pegged/

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in , 2013, state aligned 'hacktivist' group the Syrian Electronic Army was busy phishing staff members from The Onion.

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More here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/associated-press-financial-times-and-bbc-have-been-hacked-by-them-but-who-are-the-syrian-electronic-army-8624398.html

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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

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Working on a new blog over at http://realhackhistory.org
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The only king I'm interested in today is King Blotto

Newspaper clipping from The News Tribune, Thursday 28th of November 1985, detailing a "tele-trial" of Newsweek journalist Richard Sanza and the intervention of hacker King Blotto to protect him from a guilty verdict.

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in , 2010, "A jury in Tennessee has convicted a former student of the e-mail account of Sarah Palin"

The , Rubico, apparently got into her e-mail via the security question 'Where did you meet your spouse?'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8655569.stm

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2008 was an odd old time, when Anonymous was making statements about obeying the law, shows you how selective the memories of people who criticize present-day actually is.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/attacker-hacking-sarah-palins-email-was-easy/

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Also Google: You are using search operators and this is suspicious somehow, please complete this ancient looking captcha

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How had I never heard of " Journal", the magazine for ?

Cover from 'Hacker Journal', an Italian hacker magazine, I believe this issue is from around 2004.
Cover from 'Hacker Journal', an Italian hacker magazine, I believe this issue is from around 2004.
A two page spread on denial of service (DoS) from Italian magazine "Hacker Journal", from I think 2005.

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You can find a ton of issues over at Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Hacker+Journal%22

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in , the BBC was talking to Jeroen Vader, the Dutch owner of PasteBin "a must-visit site for anyone wanting to keep track of the exploits of and other "

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17524822

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No? Not ringing any bells? Fair.

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@dictvm There is this remix that just dropped recently too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCW6BkSp1Sc

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Shout outs to LulzSec Peru in the screenshot, also anyone remember 'LulzSecReborn'?
https://thehackernews.com/2012/03/return-of-lulzsec-dump-170937-accounts.html

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in , 2011, "Sony bosses apologise over theft of data from PlayStation Network", "a security breach in the company's PlayStation Network that caused the loss of personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/01/sony-playstation-data-security

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Second CD from #FBI #FOIA for China's Honker Union hacktivist group arrived, will be uploading to archive dot org and linking from here shortly.
#hacker #hacking #history #histodons

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Would you look at that, web.archive.org had the defacement archived via @attritionorg
https://web.archive.org/web/20011108081747/http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/05/04/www.fei.org/

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Microfobia's group website, circa April 2001

Any from , do these guys bring back memories?
https://web.archive.org/web/20010412103557/http://microfobia.cjb.net/

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This is an interesting detail I don't think was in the previous files, a defacement by a group in support of China but mentioning Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian and what seems to be a Brazillian group Microfobia Group & Zenienss Uniao Hacker.

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Internet Archive is still working it's automated magic to make the pdfs viewable in the web interface, but here are the files.
https://archive.org/details/1473462-0-file-1

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Now THAT is a 2001 hacker handle, no notes, work of art.

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Found what might be a reference to Microfobia on an old geocities website.

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Loving this

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in , 2009, "A who confessed he created one of the world's first botnets to use peer-to-peer technology won't spend any time in prison because of the assistance he's provided to prosecutors"

https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/29/hacker_avoids_prison/

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