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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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My other "how had I not heard of this before?" moment today was Сибирская сетевая бригада, or the Siberian Network Brigade, who were apparently a group of Russian university students who attacked Chechen websites during the second Chechen War in the late 90s / early 2000s. New cyberwar blog planned.
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"Schneider, who possessed keys to the loading docks, would then proceed at night to pick up the equipment in a telephone company truck purchased for the purpose at auction. He was careful to remove th...
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The reason that so much of computer crime before the advent of home computing in the early 1980s was insider crime by employees was that systems that could do things that were worth money were only accessible in physical offices. This guy managed to make a business of hacking related thefts in 1972!
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He had keys to loading docks for the phone company and purchased a phone company truck to take away the stuff he ordered! Just incredible levels of planning involved.
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How had I never heard of this guy before? Jerry Schneider was in his twenties in Los Angeles when he worked out a way to get the local phone company to box up supplies for him using remote computer ac...
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"Schneider, who possessed keys to the loading docks, would then proceed at night to pick up the equipment in a telephone company truck purchased for the purpose at auction. He was careful to remove the invoices along with the equipment, so that the supplies were never missed."
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The reason that so much of computer crime before the advent of home computing in the early 1980s was insider crime by employees was that systems that could do things that were worth money were only accessible in physical offices. This guy managed to make a business of hacking related thefts in 1972!
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"Schneider, who possessed keys to the loading docks, would then proceed at night to pick up the equipment in a telephone company truck purchased for the purpose at auction. He was careful to remove the invoices along with the equipment, so that the supplies were never missed."
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You can find a previous thread about Flyhook here https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/116387069681397426
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Unexpectedly received more #FOIA documents from the #FBI relating to “Flyhook”, FBI operation to lure two Russian #hackers to the U.S. so they could be arrested back in 2000.

If you separate the techniques of modern #ransomware from the malware itself, it was around a lot earlier than people think.

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Some more interesting details here. This will all go up on Internet Archive later. https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/691/686/639/546/291/original/da7c4a85129c2f9d.png
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I’ve changed to a simpler, cleaner theme, happy with it. Now I just need to finish some of these many draft blogs. https://realhackhistory.org/