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Back Orifice (1998)

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Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by Brajeshwar »

BO was a must-have tool for crackers and to have fun with friends and colleagues. I had my tiny share of those days. In late 1999, I was part of a 50-60 odd team company in one of my very early jobs. I was in the non-internet department while learning to write ASP, JavaScript, and ActionScript on the side. So, our team had access to the Internet for about an hour each day.

I was friendly with the Admins or those people who have access to the Internet and LAN thing. I helped them out quite a bit. Well, I dropped in BO, and the only thing I did was turn on the Internet for our team.

I also found out that the boss goes around poking other people's computers across the shared network, and his first look was the "temp" directory. I remember masking or creating shortcuts for all standard windows directory names to go to a pre-defined directory with a set of pre-defined contents.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by rashthedude »

neals wrote: post #73

Some 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…

That is a beautiful anecdote

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by syrusactual »

s_d wrote: post #181

Hi party people, this is Sir Dystic, author of the original 1998 Back Orifice. Great to hear all of you reminiscing about my software! One thing that I did not predict when I released BO: The distribution ZIP contained three files, a readme.txt, the BO server and the BO client. In retrospect, the BO server should probably not have been distributed with the original .EXE extension as a LARGE portion of people apparent…

Thank you for your service

Sy^

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by ljm »

flatiron wrote: post #106
Zelphyr wrote: post #57

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.

now-a-days i just put a wireless keyboard mouse adapter and giggle as i move their mouse around and type on their screen.

Even as lately as 2016, at the office we would pair apple's bluetooth mice to multiple laptops when their owners were AFK. Then later on we would connect to their mouse from our own computer and either watch them battling the cursor or wait for a message to come in on HipChat/Slack.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by aphrax »

s_d wrote: post #181

Hi party people, this is Sir Dystic, author of the original 1998 Back Orifice. Great to hear all of you reminiscing about my software! One thing that I did not predict when I released BO: The distribution ZIP contained three files, a readme.txt, the BO server and the BO client. In retrospect, the BO server should probably not have been distributed with the original .EXE extension as a LARGE portion of people apparent…

Big fan of yours Sir Dystic, thanks for all the fun and games. All the best and hope you and yours are well.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by _Anima_ »

s_d wrote: post #181

Hi party people, this is Sir Dystic, author of the original 1998 Back Orifice. Great to hear all of you reminiscing about my software! One thing that I did not predict when I released BO: The distribution ZIP contained three files, a readme.txt, the BO server and the BO client. In retrospect, the BO server should probably not have been distributed with the original .EXE extension as a LARGE portion of people apparent…

I bought my first computer in April 1996. I learned a lot about network thanks to BO. I remember always being cautious about client vs server but I managed not to infect myself. Fun times. Thank you, sir.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by mousepilot »

k__ wrote: post #134
hestefisk wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I started programming with mIRC scripts too. I fondly remember writing an anime news bot, that scraped a anime news site and spammed it into one of my channels. I didn't know what HTTP, HTML, loops, or even arrays where. I copy-pasted everything from countless sources I found. Good times.

I played with ircii scripting, one time I made a bot (probably copied some script from somewhere) that would op folks with a hardcoded irc usermask list.

I then ran one with just a mode that would op anybody upon joining and then when I'd run into folks who were all into bots, I was like "yeah I have one you can borrow for your channel," and then they'd invite it and op the thing, and then it would start opping everybody who joined and the prior owner of the channel would get all ornery about it.

lol irc was like the crackhouse of the internet to me.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by Swannie »

dnsco wrote: post #145
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 :)

mIRC scripting is why I'm a software developer today.

+1 to that.

mIRC was far more accessible to me than programming anything more simple than a text based adventure in BASIC. Then I got into Perl :D

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