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Floor gang. Roaches just give the computer more power anyway, it's free protein.

Funny to remember that Leisure Suit Larry — a game my sainted mother bought us kids! — had age-gating in the form of questions about Herb Albert and Richard Nixon

Hacker History - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons I'm on a mission to capture the hacker history and ethos in my podcasts, helping my audience understand that hacker isn't a bad word. Here are some top shows.

As I get ready to fly out to @defcon.bsky.social and @bsideslv.org I decided to create a single blog post with links to some of my top #infosecurity / #hacker podcast interviews. Enjoy! (and share!!)

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Unbelievable savings by avoiding AI everywhere.

this is getting better and better 😆

You know you’ve got a good product that people need when you have to give it away for almost nothing.

On August 6, 1991, the world's first website was published by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee. This simple, text-based website provided information about the World Wide Web.

I can’t imagine how they must feel but also this seems like the opposite of a healthy grieving process to me. This is the future though.

Another reason Manuel and his wife Patricia created the AI version of Joaquin, he noted, was just to hear their son's voice again. "Patricia will spend hours asking questions. Like any other mother, she loves to hear Joaquin saying, 'I love you, mommy? And that's important," he told Acosta.

Sad and extremely dystopian.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Then that should be the story, there are enough actual survivors of school shootings in the US to interview without a ghoulish AI avatar needing to be involved.

But its most vigorous critics, especially in the Trump administration, are not credible advocates of political liberty. The cause they advance is not free speech as a civic virtue. It is the commercial interest of companies that control much of the world's digital information infrastructure.

Hundreds of thousands of regular people concerned about the effects of the act signed a petition to repeal the OSA, to lump them in with Trump and Farage as Behr has here is disingenuous and insulting.

I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined. The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.

i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…

Parents involved or not this is pretty disgusting. Mimicking a face, a voice and doing some text to speech generation with technology is not an “interview”.

Finally, the discussion turned to the situation with MOD. Goggans talked about the persistent harassment he had been subjected to by Phiber Optik and other members of his alleged New York based organization. Goggans said that in addition to the usual childish prank calls he would often receive, MOD obtained his credit information including his credit card numbers and posted them on bulletin boards and IRC. They were also responsible for changing his residential home telephone long distance service from U.S. Sprint to AT&T so they could more easily obtain his long distance calling records. He was not alone -- other partners at Comsec and Doc Holiday's (Scott Chasin) mother were also harassed. Harassing a hacker is one thing, but going after a man's family and livelihood is clearly stepping beyond the bounds of a hacker's code of ethics. Something had to be done aboutthe problem, so Comsec decided to end MOD's reign of criminal obnoxiousness by any means necessary. There was a debate as to the proper way to handle this situation. Goggans revealed that he eventually turned to the FBI for assistance, who were surprising helpful. Some people at SummerCon were critical of his admission.

Going to write a blog about how I view this as a major turning point in the #hacking subculture. Erik Bloodaxe publicly stated at Summercon #hacker convention in 1992 that ratting out fellow #hackers to the FBI over hacker beef was actually the correct and proper thing to do.
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Thanks. I’m already very curious about the behavioural units as they wound up consulting on white collar crimes (hacking) as the 80s went on.

Unsure if I can upload the whole video here, haven’t kept up with changes to video skeets. Let’s see.
#hacker #hacking #history #skystorians

You can find the full ABC News segment on this #hacker / BBS raid from July of 1985 on Internet Archive now.
#hacking #history #skystorians
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What is the name of the memoir?

If you're at DefCon this week, come hear my talk on leveraging free retail wifi and low cost/power 802.11AH embedded devices to become an untraceable menace. Saturday at 3:30PM in the RF Village!

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Gang of Four (grok, gemini, co-pilot and DeepSeek)

I’d imagine there are videos now that you can just play on your phone held up in front of the device you are verifying on, if you do some googling.

If you did manage to get in front of a judge it’d be that Texas judge who is a big Tesla investor.

It is very specifically for his demonization of Kevin Mitnick and decision to use him as a book selling boogeyman.

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Hackers when John Markoff is mentioned tho

Old school country singers

The way things are headed a steady march to extinction is more likely and Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are the standard bearers at the front

Levels of abundance in the future while they hoard all the money and resources now.

Retro futurist art of a city with blimps and people swimming through the air

We’re meant to take them seriously when all they are selling is rehashed 1950s fantasies of the future.