Back Orifice (1998) • Hacker News Board

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#11

Post by jdmoreira » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

This brings me many good memories of my script kiddie humble beginnings. It all started with backoriffice and mIrc and slowly it evolved to me wanting to run bitchX and eventually getting into linux. It probably took me an year to go from being a windows user to exclusively run Slackware and poring over Phrack :)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#12

Post by beermonster » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

Wow. This brings back memories!

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#13

Post by grobbie » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:52 PM UTC

tscherno wrote: post #4

There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...

I can remember one called Code Red causing a bit of mayhem at work not that long after.

Interesting to read on Wikipedia that work on Sub7 resumed in June this year.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#14

Post by jmrm » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:53 PM UTC

Ah, yes. I used that to prank some friends when Windows/MSN Messenger started to be a thing. Good memories :-)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#15

Post by gatorcode » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:53 PM UTC

mikeodds wrote: post #3

I’d bet there’s more than a few people here in respectable places now that learnt to code through VB6, Delphi, python, Perl, PHP to write rats and exploit code.

Ahh the good old days. Learned to program with VB6 writing progz for AOL.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#16

Post by jdalgetty » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:57 PM UTC

Oh boy! We used to have a lot of fun with this back in high school!

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#17

Post by mobilio » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:00 PM UTC

I still remember it because was one of first RAT available.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#18

Post by alexhawdon » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

S_A_P wrote: post #10

Wrote about this as a college senior for my computer security class. Spent a day or two in the TAMU computer lab with that site prominently displayed… that was 22 years ago. I did set up 2 computers to demo how this worked as part of the presentation but never went much further than that. I seem to remember my report including hypothetical ways to use a tool I think was called silkworm or silk wrapper to disguise thi…

Saran Wrap (https://www.itconsultancy.org/malware/name/saran-wrap-1-0)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#19

Post by sulmanen » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

Classmate got expelled from high school for installing this on school computer

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

#20

Post by InvertedRhodium » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

peejfancher wrote: post #9

I used to use this tool to mess with my college computer class professor. Me and a buddy installed it on the teachers computer that she used to instruct the class. We did mostly innocent stuff like closing windows or messing with the browser a bit. Occasionally we would reboot her computer when it was close to the end of class and we didn’t want to start something new. We’re both still coders to this day.

I was 13 when it came out, and my targets of choice were my peers rather than the teacher - I eventually got caught and had my account locked for 6 months as punishment. I don't recall exactly how I got caught, but no doubt it was something dumb and avoidable like talking about it.