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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture.

If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you.

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I finally got a chance to see the Joybubbles documentary. I was honestly surprised by how emotional it made me, if you’ve been involved in phreaking or hacking I think you’ll see a little of yourself in Joe. It centers his story and his struggles and his successes, it isn’t a true crime exposé.
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I would recommend anyone who gets the chance to watch this movie checks it out. It’s something really special in terms of movies about the people from the history of hacking, something quite beautiful.
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“The ransom attempt failed, because the bank had in its files duplicates of the stolen tapes.” Backups have been foiling ransomware operators since the 70s lol
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Detroit Free Press - Jun 20th, 1975

I'm fascinated by the idea of #ransomware before ransomware, data extortion that impacted availability or confidentiality of data before the advent of malicious software for encryption.

Stumbled across this 70s news story about "tapenapping" of backup tapes.

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[realhackhistory@home]# · 3w
From “Computer Capers: Tales of Electronic Thievery, Embezzlement, and Fraud” by Thomas Whiteside, published in 1978. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/928/337/962/731/799/original/95a0c332cccde58f.png