28 Years Later: Some Things Changed. The Important Stuff Didn't.
Twenty-eight years after warning the U.S. Senate that the internet was broken, the security industry has grown but the core problem hasn't changed. We're still writing vulnerable code and patching after the fact. AI is both accelerating the risk and, for the first time, pointing at a real fix: security built into the developer's workflow, upstream, before the damage is done.
The latest episode of 'Where Warlocks Stay up Late" dropped yesterday. Featuring yours truly. The interview goes pretty deep from growing up in Maine, working at Lotus, stories about L0pht you may not have heard before to getting fired from @stake. Probably the most personal interview I have ever given.
Excellent #Cyber Interviews Series
https://wherewarlocksstayuplate.com/
ParMaster - from incarceration to #Cybersecurity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkeXk9rBBrs
https://www.audible.com/podcast/The-Parmasters-Paradox-The-Life-Flight-and-Re-Invention-of-Jason-Snitker/B0FDX7HG3N
(Par and Assange book)
Rankhorn - FBI undercover and Law Enforcement perspective
https://wwsul.podbean.com/e/episode-5-terry-rankhorn-part-1/
Blind Man's Bluff (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untold_Story_of_American_Submarine_Espionage
pt. II 48:00 - race conditions for Nick #IRC
Pewp - hacker groups grew up and rethinking things through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVm30NiHhdQ
[1:00:00] The Golden Age / Decline of #IRC hacker groups
#ComputerHistory #GabriellaColeman
https://archive.org/details/pca_Phone_Losers_of_America
#EHAP https://thecyberexpress.com/anonymous-hacktivist-group-working-to-safeguard-children-against-pedophiles/
hack.se https://www.swehack.se/
Skyper - Blue Boxing, rules of #Phreaking
https://wwsul.podbean.com/e/episode-4-eduart-steiner-aka-skyper/
#BBS - dial "The Number" - modems
cool domain name indicated access to server
#TESO Austrian hacker group
http://wokb.cz/Hacking/Skupiny/teso.htmL
"Not criminals, researchers" [1:31:00]
Kingpin - thoughts about nerodivergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSvFdwunLU
Cold Wallet (movie)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27307826/
Mohammed Bagha - lost era of hacker culture,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2RQ_O2Cq0
makes you wonder about the possibility of "human interest" stories (staring team human instead of machinic professionalization) in the contemporary cyber scene
also reminiscent of the difference between
savant inventors versus the rise of big science
and yet, there is a definition of "hacker" as anyone who
brings ingenutiy to problem solving
Ralph Logan - humanitarian, #hacker groups #history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CmLzhggrw
#cDc T -Files
https://archive.org/download/cultdeadcow-master
#Phrack
https://archive.org/details/phrack67/Phrack/phrack1
#gorillaton #l0pht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4166Kb4UdQ
#MIT #Boston #magazine #zine #underground
Matt Harrigan - early wild west net, but now Feds will always win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHKRzGQeog
"Programmable Threats"
#Blackhat keynote #Mikko_Hypponen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14EhT-DRJ8
#Malware #Virus #Drones #Cybersecurity
Excellent #Cyber Interviews Series
https://wherewarlocksstayuplate.com/
"Programmable Threats"
#Blackhat keynote #Mikko_Hypponen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14EhT-DRJ8
#Malware #Virus #Drones #Cybersecurity
BBS/AE/CF - in the end, only the CatFurs survived . . . hahaha! #cDc
ParMaster - from incarceration to #Cybersecurity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkeXk9rBBrs
https://www.audible.com/podcast/The-Parmasters-Paradox-The-Life-Flight-and-Re-Invention-of-Jason-Snitker/B0FDX7HG3N
(Par and Assange book)
Pewp - hacker groups grew up and rethinking things through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVm30NiHhdQ
[1:00:00] The Golden Age / Decline of #IRC hacker groups
#ComputerHistory #GabriellaColeman
https://archive.org/details/pca_Phone_Losers_of_America
#EHAP https://thecyberexpress.com/anonymous-hacktivist-group-working-to-safeguard-children-against-pedophiles/
hack.se https://www.swehack.se/
Skyper - Blue Boxing, rules of #Phreaking
https://wwsul.podbean.com/e/episode-4-eduart-steiner-aka-skyper/
#BBS - dial "The Number" - modems
cool domain name indicated access to server
#TESO Austrian hacker group
http://wokb.cz/Hacking/Skupiny/teso.htmL
"Not criminals, researchers" [1:31:00]
Rankhorn - FBI undercover and Law Enforcement perspective
https://wwsul.podbean.com/e/episode-5-terry-rankhorn-part-1/
Blind Man's Bluff (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untold_Story_of_American_Submarine_Espionage
pt. II 48:00 - race conditions for Nick #IRC
Kingpin - thoughts about nerodivergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSvFdwunLU
Cold Wallet (movie)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27307826/
Mohammed Bagha - lost era of hacker culture,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2RQ_O2Cq0
makes you wonder about the possibility of "human interest" stories (staring team human instead of machinic professionalization) in the contemporary cyber scene
also reminiscent of the difference between
savant inventors versus the rise of big science
and yet, there is a definition of "hacker" as anyone who
brings ingenutiy to problem solving
Ralph Logan - humanitarian, #hacker groups #history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CmLzhggrw
#cDc T -Files
https://archive.org/download/cultdeadcow-master
#Phrack
https://archive.org/details/phrack67/Phrack/phrack1
#gorillaton #l0pht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4166Kb4UdQ
#MIT #Boston #magazine #zine #underground
Matt Harrigan - early wild west net, but now Feds will always win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHKRzGQeog
Where Warlocks Stay Up Late
Mohammed Bagha - lost era of hacker culture,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2RQ_O2Cq0
makes you wonder about the possibility of "human interest" stories (staring team human instead of machinic professionalization) in the contemporary cyber scene
also reminiscent of the difference between
savant inventors versus the rise of big science
and yet, there is a definition of "hacker" as anyone who
brings ingenutiy to problem solving
Ralph Logan - humanitarian, #hacker groups #history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CmLzhggrw
#cDc T -Files
https://archive.org/download/cultdeadcow-master
#Phrack
https://archive.org/details/phrack67/Phrack/phrack1
#gorillaton #l0pht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4166Kb4UdQ
#MIT #Boston #magazine #zine #underground
Matt Harrigan - early wild west net, but now Feds will always win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHKRzGQeog
Applying lessons from my @L0pht days: transparency, collaboration, & curiosity drive cybersecurity progress. Read how we turned hacker insights into modern security practices: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/07/31/how-a-clash-of-cultures-changed-software-security-forever/
Another r00t charity auction. #r00t #l0pht #cultdeadcow
YOU ARE BIDDING ON ONE (1) DEFCON 32, 2024 HUMAN BADGE! THIS BADGE IS TO BE DELIVERED, BY HAND, AT THE r00t PARTY ON AUGUST 8 (invite only, info included)!THIS MEANS YOU CAN HANG OUT WITH US (if you want).AUCTION PROCEEDS GO 100% TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE.You are also bidding on some rare Cult of the Dead Cow - Back Orifice 25th Anniversary Challenge Coins. ONE GOLD (RARE FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ONLY) AND ONE SILVER (ALSO KINDA RARE). Included in this auction are two Cult of the Dead Cow patches, several Cult of the Dead Cow stickers, a Cult of the Dead Cow Keychain, and other assorted stickers from r00t, l0pht, etc.
Want hundreds of infosec stickers? You should bid on this auction, for the EFF.
#StickerLife #defcon #infosec #charity #r00t #hackers #eff #l0pht #cultdeadcow #w00w00
YOU ARE BIDDING A CHARITY AUCTION FOR ELECTRONIC FRONTEER FOUNDATION! 100% OF PROCEEDS GO TO THE EFF!325 Hacker and Information Security stickers accumulated from various conferences from around the world! BlackHat, Defcon, BSides, Cult of the Dead Cow, l0pht, r00t, w00w00, attrition.org and other noteworthy hacker and non-noteworthy groups. Also various company and governing body stickers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, X-Force, CVE, CVSS, CWE, MITRE, OWASP! And many, many more! Free shipping, and we will throw in some other goodies.
Today to honor Steve #Wozniak, who gave the commencement address to undergraduates at #CUBoulder, at @mediaarchaeologylab I pulled out an old app that is part of the Whacked #Mac Archives, curated by the #L0pht.
The app's sole purpose is to pull a series of fuzzy, heavily dithered PICT format bitmap images out of the ROM of a #Macintosh SE (and no other model). This was an easter egg of epic proportions - photos of the early people who worked at #Apple Computer, burned into the silicon that powers the computer. Seeing these images was a bit like what I imagine an alien species would feel when they play the golden record on Voyager for the first time.
Sorry for the weird bars on some of these photos. I'll try to get clearer ones next week.
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