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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6jhAugNqvE

#l0pht #spacerogue #warlocks

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

Where Warlocks Stay Up Late (WWSUL): Cybersecurity Interviews

Where Warlocks Stay Up Late is an interview series capturing the history, stories, and pioneers of cybersecurity, inspired by the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late.

WWSUL

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 (WWSUL): Cybersecurity Interviews

Where Warlocks Stay Up Late is an interview series capturing the history, stories, and pioneers of cybersecurity, inspired by the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late.

WWSUL

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

#WWSUL

Episode 8: Mohammed Bagha aka "MB"

YouTube

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/

#Cybersecurity #L0pht #Innovation

DEFCON 32 Human Badge - Aug 8-11, 2024 - Cult of the Dead Cow RARE ITEMS | eBay

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.

eBay

Want hundreds of infosec stickers? You should bid on this auction, for the EFF.

#StickerLife #defcon #infosec #charity #r00t #hackers #eff #l0pht #cultdeadcow #w00w00

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176475564782

325 Hacker Inforsec Stickers - Defcon - r00t - cDc- Blackhat - Bsides CHARITY | eBay

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.

eBay

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.

#RetroMac #RetroComputing

Senator Lieberman was there in 1998 when the L0pht testified on Weak Computer Security in Government. He will be missed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/ #lieberman #l0pht
Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82

As Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in 2000, he was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party.

The Washington Post
Unlocking #Digital Doors: On the #Hacker Group That Told #Congress They Could Take Down the #Internet - Walter J. Scheirer on #L0pht Heavy Industries and the Origins of Modern-Day Online #Deception

"Early computer users were consumed with the idea of being able to go places that ordinary people could not. There was something tantalizing about the vast complexity of computer technology. Peering into the digital nooks and crannies, sometimes one could find oneself making a discovery that unlocked a door to a realm of the impossible. The most familiar example of this effect from the classic era of computing is the video game cheat code."

lithub.com/unlocking-digital-doors-on-the-hacker-group-that-told-congress-they-could-take-down-the-internet/
Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

Early computer users were consumed with the idea of being able to go places that ordinary people could not. There was something tantalizing about the vast complexity of computer technology. Peering…

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