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So I've been listening to the Darknet Diaries and am finding the stories of hackers and phreaks utterly fascinating. I want to hear your best hacking stories, like the time you went full mobman and stuck a RAT on AT&T's corporate network, or how you deleted everyone's houses on Ultima Online. I want to hear from the days of phreaking to today, ethical to non-ethical, black-hat and white-hat and gray-hat.
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Now that I've gotten the clear, do tell 
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Apr 14, 2022 15:07
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I once crashed an IRC server that somebody was running on a Power Mac 6100 by opening new channels until it ran out of memory
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Apr 16, 2022 01:17
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I saw the thread title and thought to myself "Man I should recommend the Darknet Diaries podcast to this goon because this will totally scratch that itch." only to read the first sentence. I wish I had stories for you, but I also find this stuff (especially Pen Testing) to be loving cool as poo poo and something I wish I got paid to do (but I don't have the skills to do it).
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Apr 20, 2022 18:52
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I hacked the mainframe.
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Apr 25, 2022 05:54
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https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4686 You'd probably enjoy this book. It's mostly about 80's Australian hackers.
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Apr 26, 2022 04:39
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If you want a novel, check out Takedown, which is a story about the tracking and capture of Kevin Mitnick, one of the most notorious hackers of all time. There's also a movie but I don't remember if it's any good (probably not). EDIT: There's also The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier.
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Apr 29, 2022 23:17
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istewart posted:I once crashed an IRC server that somebody was running on a Power Mac 6100 by opening new channels until it ran out of memory About halfway between now and then it used to be possible to get irssi to overwrite system files by using a modified ircd to remove rate & channel limits to forcejoin them to millions of channels many times a second. Most of the time irssi would keep running, but the next time you tried to run just about anything else it would be segfault city, if it booted at all
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Apr 30, 2022 06:03
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muskrat posted:If you want a novel, check out Takedown, which is a story about the tracking and capture of Kevin Mitnick, one of the most notorious hackers of all time. There's also a movie but I don't remember if it's any good (probably not). Seconding this. It's a really good book except for whatever reason the author inserts a lot of anecdotes about his love interest throughout it and it's not really needed.
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Apr 30, 2022 13:24
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after you op
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May 4, 2022 16:17
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from the 90s with Solaris: - /tmp was memory-mapped. So if you put e.g. the Temp-Dir of Netscape there, this lead to some weird problems like "No more processes". - /dev/audio or so was available for remote users. Have you ever heard a JPEG? (this works cause of the BELL char). We used this to clear a computer for our mates since most users had no idea how this happened but the whole room would look at them till they fled. - Printing Postscript files without putting the printer /printtool into PS mode (binary files with lots of linebreak and pagebreak chars). A small PS easily spewed out 100+ pages with cryptic poo poo.
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May 10, 2022 14:44
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I completely forgot about this thread since it fell to page 2 of my bookmarks  New Zealand can eat me posted:About halfway between now and then it used to be possible to get irssi to overwrite system files by using a modified ircd to remove rate & channel limits to forcejoin them to millions of channels many times a second. Most of the time irssi would keep running, but the next time you tried to run just about anything else it would be segfault city, if it booted at all What would keep it from booting after that? mariooncrack posted:https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4686 muskrat posted:If you want a novel, check out Takedown, which is a story about the tracking and capture of Kevin Mitnick, one of the most notorious hackers of all time. There's also a movie but I don't remember if it's any good (probably not). Adding those to the reading/Goodwill-lookout list, thanks! Mano posted:from the 90s with Solaris: It's amazing what OS devs used to not think of in the days before bug bounties and malicious actors, back when you hacked for fun and learning more than loving with peoples' poo poo. I shouldn't be as surprised that there are a whole bunch of redteam types in the YOSPOS security thread, but I still am
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May 10, 2022 14:57
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D34THROW posted:What would keep it from booting after that? if the files you need to load to start the OS were overwritten, you have a problem to start the OS. Even funnier if they're just partially overwritten. (Modern OS are a bit more stable I think so that at least some files can be repaired by the OS start) One of my database profs told a similar story with one of the old database systems that would just start filling up the disk again from the start when it didn't have any more space at the end. Maybe Sysbase or something?
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May 11, 2022 09:59
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D34THROW posted:there are a whole bunch of redteam types in the YOSPOS security thread sadly there are not
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May 13, 2022 08:55
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Oh, I thought I saw at least a half a dozen 
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May 13, 2022 11:51
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let's ask them !
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May 13, 2022 12:04
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My high school had a very dumb username/password system. All the passwords were reset to password at the beginning of every school year. All the usernames were lastname****** The asterisks were the student id numbers which were sequential by name within years for anyone who wasn't a transfer. It was always a lot of fun seeing how many people's accounts I could hijack at the beginning of every year.
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Back in high school we used to have command prompt wars. I'd have a BAT file running that consisted of a bunch of shutdown -f -i <target> alternating with shutdown -a. More than once we lost work because of the forced immediate shutdown that beat the shutdown abort to the punch. We also had access to the district shares so we stuck the Halo demo, Delta Force Black Hawk Down, Pocket Tanks, and poo poo like that for the whole district. Some classes we just treated like a big LAN party.
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