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My FBI file was for hacking into my school district's AS/400 that handled my school's attendance and grading system. Somehow using a public IP address with no access restrictions allowed a clear telnet path in from home. Compounding username and passwords that were all the same for every employee. I didn't change a thing, just LOLed and told someone. Bad mistake. This was the late 90s. Oh well, 2 week suspension and…
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Cool. I mean, wow, that's a great old resource. I like https://www.saildart.org/[OLD,LES]/ (always interested in what academic researchers at stanford and berkeley were doing around the time I was born, especially machine learning)
Well, then you're sure to like https://www.saildart.org/JMC (John McCarthy).
Some pretty amazing stuff in there including his comments before the four color theorem was proved
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I cannot imagine an entry level class in Web Development (or even a coding bootcamp) not dedicating some time to crypto and SSL / SSH. Anyone doing a deepdive on these topics would seemingly be put on a list. It is absurd.
Netscape was required to severely cripple SSL to be allowed to export it in the early 1990s. Since "export" included putting software on an FTP server, this meant no open source crypto software could be on US servers. GNU addressed that problem by hosting some software in Europe. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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In grade school a class mate told me how to mail letters for free: print where the letter _should be sent_ in the return address, print anything for the apparent delivery address, apply no stamp, and drop in a public mail bin. The letter will be sent "back" to the return address because postage was not paid. When I got home later that day I excitedly shared with my parents the new hack I had learned and they told me…
I use this exact scam as a way to explain email forging and how the Bad Guys (TM) get spam delivered. Funny enough, my grandmother told me about a version of this scam, but as a prank. Get some roadkill, put it in a sealed bag. Put that bag in a box. Mail it the slowest way possible to a far away address that doesn't exist. Put your target's address for the Return Address. Be sure to do it in summer. By the time it g…
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Oh, okay then, case closed. In other news, North Korea says they're a democratic republic, so that's another thing we don't have to worry about.
The 4th Amendment
My FBI file was for hacking into my school district's AS/400 that handled my school's attendance and grading system. Somehow using a public IP address with no access restrictions allowed a clear telnet path in from home. Compounding username and passwords that were all the same for every employee. I didn't change a thing, just LOLed and told someone. Bad mistake. This was the late 90s. Oh well, 2 week suspension and…
> they didn't shadow protect their password files Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much.
