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Framing legislative social media bans for kids as a triumph against tech giants is a mistake I think. I see it as an admission of failure to impose any meaningful regulation on any of the corporations & as essentially admitting defeat & ceding the territory to them after erecting a makeshift fence.
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I must have missed it but the DDoSia Project Telegram channel seems to have been taken down, a pity because it was a great source of intel on NoName057(16) and Z-Pentest. That chat had outlasted a lot of other Telegram takedowns and had around 14,000 members last time I checked.
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This incredible illustration accompanied an article in The Columbus Ledge on November 19th, 1978 which discussed whether colleges and universities were helping to create computer criminals by giving s...
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The guy who wrote the book that prompted the article is an absolute mainstay of any conversation about hacking or computer crime through the seventies and into the eighties, Donn B Parker. I need to write about him at some point. A real hardass character.

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I love this illustration for instance, from The News-Times, Saturday January 14th, 1978. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/794/394/699/462/830/original/e4c47a8710595ac6.png
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This incredible illustration accompanied an article in The Columbus Ledge on November 19th, 1978 which discussed whether colleges and universities were helping to create computer criminals by giving students access to computers. Bit of a bizarre moral panic.


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[realhackhistory@home]# · 2w
The guy who wrote the book that prompted the article is an absolute mainstay of any conversation about hacking or computer crime through the seventies and into the eighties, Donn B Parker. I need to write about him at some point. A real hardass character. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachmen...
[realhackhistory@home]# · 2w
This incredible illustration accompanied an article in The Columbus Ledge on November 19th, 1978 which discussed whether colleges and universities were helping to create computer criminals by giving students access to computers. Bit of a bizarre moral panic. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attach...