Rival company were compromised by BO. We found out and dialled in. I watched documents being written remotely by a staff member there. It was surreal.
"Need to fill this detail in more for Heck blah blah..."
Back Orifice (1998)
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#142Not going to read anyone else's story about how they remember this program, but this was a good program
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#143I installed this on a bunch of school computers when I was 15 only to open and close the CD-ROM bays to freak out the teachers. This was the golden days of computing!
More fun was popping up obscene dialogs on the computer the teacher was using to present to the class on the projector.
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#144Some weird random anecdote about Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) that nobody asked for: We were goofing around in high school with this. Putting it on computers in school and messing around. We sent it over to a classmate. Her father was teachter and we figured she might open it on their home PC. (we were 14 at the time, by the way). Anyway, we made a fake hotmail address in the name of another classmate. These two people d…
This made my day.
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#145This 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 :)
mIRC scripting is why I'm a software developer today.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#146BO reminds me of all new and shiny apps that are meant to "keep an eye on kids&spouses" ... or maybe it's the other way around.
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#147People may not remember but the name was a pun on "BackOffice" which was a Microsoft product at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BackOffice_Server Back Orifice was basically a rootkit avant la lettre.
The Back Orifice logo was also a play on the MS Back Office logo but with a goatse twist. CotDC were a cheeky bunch :D
cDc (I'm not being pedantic but by stylizing it in another way you're missing the penis joke)
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#148Had a lot of fun with bo2k and friends. cDc zines got me in to hacker culture and probably contributed to my career trajectory.
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#149Some weird random anecdote about Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) that nobody asked for: We were goofing around in high school with this. Putting it on computers in school and messing around. We sent it over to a classmate. Her father was teachter and we figured she might open it on their home PC. (we were 14 at the time, by the way). Anyway, we made a fake hotmail address in the name of another classmate. These two people d…
In AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school I bulk messaged a ton of accounts in some teen chat saying “Hi Sarah.” Most of them responded “I’m not Sarah” or similar but a few replied “who is this?” I said “It’s Josh.” Most of them said “I don’t know a Josh” but one of them said “Hi” like she knew a Josh. I then started talking to her and slowly got around to telling her that I had a crush on her. She actuall…
I had many 'randoms' added on MSN messenger. Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation. We used to discuss all and sundry back then.
I was always slightly more nervous messaging the girls (obvious from their elaborate emoticon-saturated screen names).
Curiously, one of my friends had a contact named 'korea@hotmail.com' who was always online but never replied.
I sometimes wonder how many of them are doing now.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#150Some weird random anecdote about Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) that nobody asked for: We were goofing around in high school with this. Putting it on computers in school and messing around. We sent it over to a classmate. Her father was teachter and we figured she might open it on their home PC. (we were 14 at the time, by the way). Anyway, we made a fake hotmail address in the name of another classmate. These two people d…
I’m a bit older and when I was about 14 or 15 I got into assembly language DOS virus writing. This was in 1992 and 1993. It’s actually how I learned x86 ASM. I was involved with an old school hacking (sense 2) group called Phalcon/Skism. Did other fun stuff like “wardialing” with a program called ToneLoc. Anyway I wrote some viruses and dropped them in my high school computer lab. Several ended up getting loose on th…
Have you ever happened upon the youtuber danoct1? He plays with old DOS and Win32 viruses.
https://m.youtube.com/user/danooct1
Perhaps one of yours has been featured!