today drug dealers use leet speak over SMS to communicate about transactions without triggering local LE detection
I didn't know that. Do you have a source for this information?
Where the term "Zero Day" comes from
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#12I love the fact that this is no news to me. It brings back fun memories of my warez trading by mail and later BBS.
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#130day always has meant one thing , release of software on the same release date i.e. 0 day.
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#14And if you didn't have 16550AFN serial and a USR Courier HST your 0-day was likely to turn into a 3-day... I remember taking advantage of call waiting tones to dump friends offline and steal their places on local multi-user BBS. Good days!
Which is why people bought the much cheaper USR Sportster and used the magic AT command!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRobotics_Sportster_magic_str...
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#15I love the fact that this is no news to me. It brings back fun memories of my warez trading by mail and later BBS.
Yeah I miss those times - especially the fact that hacking/phreaking was seen as just a little 'naughty' and not worthy of hard time in a federal prison. I edited and re-edited this short post to take out stuff because I ended up going on a very serious reminiscing tangent. I'll post some of my thoughts here just to get them out of my system. Tag this as #ramblingsAfterMidnight Mostly I was active in the early to mid…
If you factor out carding, it's likely that more people did more years in prison during the Sun-Devil era than do today.
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#160day always has meant one thing , release of software on the same release date i.e. 0 day.
That's empirically incorrect; 0day means more than just that nowadays.
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#17I love the fact that this is no news to me. It brings back fun memories of my warez trading by mail and later BBS.
Yeah I miss those times - especially the fact that hacking/phreaking was seen as just a little 'naughty' and not worthy of hard time in a federal prison. I edited and re-edited this short post to take out stuff because I ended up going on a very serious reminiscing tangent. I'll post some of my thoughts here just to get them out of my system. Tag this as #ramblingsAfterMidnight Mostly I was active in the early to mid…
I remember using Toneloc during that time to wardial entire exchanges looking for dialup modems into servers. I wonder how many people I annoyed with getting phone calls in the middle of the night with my 14.4 modem screeching in their ear.
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#18today drug dealers use leet speak over SMS to communicate about transactions without triggering local LE detection
I didn't know that. Do you have a source for this information?
I wonder if this is just a retelling of the myth(?) that leet speak originated in the practice of renaming files to avoid detection by sysadmins.
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#19I love the fact that this is no news to me. It brings back fun memories of my warez trading by mail and later BBS.
Yeah I miss those times - especially the fact that hacking/phreaking was seen as just a little 'naughty' and not worthy of hard time in a federal prison. I edited and re-edited this short post to take out stuff because I ended up going on a very serious reminiscing tangent. I'll post some of my thoughts here just to get them out of my system. Tag this as #ramblingsAfterMidnight Mostly I was active in the early to mid…
Bluebeep was written in pascal and IIRC it had a really impressive content management system in there.
I was inspired by it to write a UK-centric redboxing program on the Psion organiser. I can't remember what language psions used. It worked though, through a mix of tone generation and a little social engineering you could get free calls from payphones in the UK. I remember working really hard to figure out how to convert from the Mhz figure I needed to produce into whatever input the psion's sound API took. Fun times.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I miss those times - especially the fact that hacking/phreaking was seen as just a little 'naughty' and not worthy of hard time in a federal prison. I edited and re-edited this short post to take out stuff because I ended up going on a very serious reminiscing tangent. I'll post some of my thoughts here just to get them out of my system. Tag this as #ramblingsAfterMidnight Mostly I was active in the early to mid…
I remember using Toneloc during that time to wardial entire exchanges looking for dialup modems into servers. I wonder how many people I annoyed with getting phone calls in the middle of the night with my 14.4 modem screeching in their ear.
ToneLoc author here (mthreat), checking in, 20 years after the release of the last version. I didn't manage to avoid the federal prison part, but somehow ended up fine in the end. My path, roughly: BBSes -> saw WarGames -> wannabe hacker -> warez boards (Public Enemy) -> cracking games (learned x86 asm) -> hacking voicemail boxes -> wrote ToneLoc (learned C) -> real hacking -> COSMOS access -> physical hacking (burglary of Southwestern Bell, learned lock picking) -> federal prison -> back to college -> startups -> ... I wouldn't change any of it now.