The amount of people in this comment section, on "Hacker News", that are completely oblivious to one of the most iconic groups of hacker culture is... depressing. I wonder how can we spread more zeitgeist about it to newer generations?
Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
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Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#62Weren't these the guys who released BackOrifice back in the day? It was a simple to use remote control trojan with a nice GUI... had a blast with it :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice?wprov=sfla1 As a kid, I attached it to some shareware game and sent it to a friend, letting it lurk. I called him up a few days later. And then once we started playing the game, I waited for a suspenseful moment to suddenly p…
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Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#63The amount of people in this comment section, on "Hacker News", that are completely oblivious to one of the most iconic groups of hacker culture is... depressing. I wonder how can we spread more zeitgeist about it to newer generations?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow
I dunno, but maybe try being informative instead of critical that losers like me never got the memo?
Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#64The amount of people in this comment section, on "Hacker News", that are completely oblivious to one of the most iconic groups of hacker culture is... depressing. I wonder how can we spread more zeitgeist about it to newer generations?
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Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#65Weren't these the guys who released BackOrifice back in the day? It was a simple to use remote control trojan with a nice GUI... had a blast with it :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice?wprov=sfla1 As a kid, I attached it to some shareware game and sent it to a friend, letting it lurk. I called him up a few days later. And then once we started playing the game, I waited for a suspenseful moment to suddenly p…
> to a friend
I think with my friend I pitched it more like "I tricked you for your own good to show you not to trust random EXE files"... though I don't think it was quite that altruistic a prank. :p
I recall another similar trojan (perhaps a little later) was Netbus, both showed up a lot when volunteering on an IRC help channel to help diagnose and walk victims through removal.
Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#66The web needs more sites hosting raw .html pages formatted as plain text decorated with ASCII art with zero regard for mobile. I say this with complete sincerity.
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Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if you're talking about the design or content. But on design... So Cult of the Dead Cow has literally been around for 40 years. And this is what their "pages" looked like before the web, when ascii on TTY was all you had. Ironically, however, the first actual web page of theirs IA has, in 1998, does _not_ look like this, they didn't actually think at that point it would be edgy and cool to make the brand…
Not the page design, the method itself. "Bovine mother?" Come on.
The CDC was formed at an actual cow slaughterhouse.
Know your history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow
Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#68Oh man, does this bring back memories. I loved BackOrfice. I installed it on the network at the University where I was a student. I had a friend call me on a payphone from a vantage point where he could view the layout of the computer terminals being used by students doing research. At first, I would open the cd trays of a couple of the computers and he described the students confusion as they kept closing the trays…
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Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#69This feels like it would have been edgy and cool 30 years ago.
FYI: Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker group that has been around since the 80s. Hell a number of members actually have testified in congress before (i.e. the CdC members that were also part of L0pht).
> L0pht
Oh man, that reminds me of NTLM passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0phtCrack
Re: Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)
#70Weren't these the guys who released BackOrifice back in the day? It was a simple to use remote control trojan with a nice GUI... had a blast with it :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice?wprov=sfla1 As a kid, I attached it to some shareware game and sent it to a friend, letting it lurk. I called him up a few days later. And then once we started playing the game, I waited for a suspenseful moment to suddenly p…
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