In the late 1980s and early 90s, a mysterious hacker known only as Kando made waves across private BBS systems and underground phreaking circles. Not much is known about their identity, but Kando was credited with releasing a series of clever, minimalist terminal hacks—scripts that could hijack modem handshakes or manipulate ANSI escape sequences to gain access or crash rival systems. Their work never made it to mainstream hacker zines, but among old-school sysops, the name still rings a bell. Some say Kando walked away before the internet boom, while others believe their fingerprints are still hidden in obscure .asc files floating around forgotten FTP mirrors.

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In 1988, a Cornell graduate student named Robert Tappan Morris released a small experiment onto the early internet. It was meant to measure the size of the network, but a coding flaw caused it to replicate uncontrollably. The Morris Worm infected over six thousand machines, bringing parts of the internet to a halt. This led to the first ever conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

The 3½-inch floppy containing the 99 lines of source code is still on display at the Computer History Museum in California.

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I'm trying to track down an #article I read years ago about how #Microsoft tracked leaks of either the #XBOX or the #xbox360 where they embedded the details of the xbox into the drops or the rings or something in the background, so they could find the exact person from a photo of the screen.

Anyone know where I can find it?

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