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Back Orifice (1998)

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Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by grubbs »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #42
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'm wondering if people like you have grown up to be the people who break user interfaces needlessly, write cookie popups, integrate ads and telemetry, and force updates on things that don't need them. In other words, did you grow out of your childish shenanigans or are you just getting paid for them now?

I used to do the exact same thing to friends over AIM and various computers at my HS.

I now manage a massive HPC cluster for a world renowned university. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by atum47 »

jahnu wrote: post #37
atum47 wrote: post #32

Glad to see I was not the only script kiddie here, haha. I used them all: bo, netbus, sub7... To be honest back in my days it was not as fun to hack somebody, digital cameras were expensive as heck back then, people had just a few pictures on their computers which they usually scanned, no webcams... It took me a week to infect this girl I had a crush on, when I finally did all I found on her computer was a bunch of m…

You think it's fun to stalk women?

No specific, it was fun because I had a crush on her. A little bit after that I started dating a girl who went to the same school as me, and she told me she and her friends would look at the signing list at the library to see what I was reading. Back then you had to checkout a book in order to take it home with you from the library, and they used pen and paper.

I guess I was also stalked, just not digitally, haha.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by gogopuppygogo »

brassattax wrote: post #26

My University had public, non-firewalled IP addresses in the dorms... all one had to do was scan the IP ranges for the default port for Back Orifice to have some fun. (The good old days)

My first year at university I took over the student radio program and found such a computer had been left online for months directly connected to the internet. It was so pwned the mouse would struggle to move.

I wish to this day I’d imaged the hard drive before formatting it. It’d have been so much fun to boot up in a VM to play with today.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by riedel »

hestefisk wrote: post #34
jdmoreira wrote: post #11

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 :)

Very much exactly my story! I also did mIRC scripting :)

Seeing the title of post I immediately felt sentimental. It so funny to understand actually understand that so many people were socialized with the same tools. I recently found the tools compilation CDs my brother used to assemble with all those tools. Having Back Orifice on a random computer on the internet was somehow the first feeling what the internet ment without knowing actually what to do with that. I additionally remember spending hours on SoftICE (My biggest success was to discover that the only license key to the Siemens webwasher adblocker was 'Mr Nuts'.) I wonder if is there similarly innocent things today's script kiddie's do.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by Zelphyr »

We used Back Orifice on a co-worker’s machine in a call center I worked at. While he was working we would open and close his CD-ROM drive randomly. Restart his machine. All the while we’re four seats down just cackling and he’s turning redder and redder as his machine does all these weird things while he’s trying to work.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by atum47 »

jahnu wrote: post #37
atum47 wrote: post #32

Glad to see I was not the only script kiddie here, haha. I used them all: bo, netbus, sub7... To be honest back in my days it was not as fun to hack somebody, digital cameras were expensive as heck back then, people had just a few pictures on their computers which they usually scanned, no webcams... It took me a week to infect this girl I had a crush on, when I finally did all I found on her computer was a bunch of m…

You think it's fun to stalk women?

By the way, why do you think social media is such a big deal? Cause it's fun to stalk people.

Stop trying to make things look sexist

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by jonplackett »

tscherno wrote: post #4

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

I remember this - and using the same CD opening closing joke on people in the college lab. The technicians had no idea what was going on. I don’t think they really knew anything about computers - we once found a word doc on one of the computers with every password for the entire college / website etc.
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