[HN Gopher] Phrack 72 "40th Anniversary Edition" Call for Papers
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       Phrack 72 "40th Anniversary Edition" Call for Papers
        
       Author : keepamovin
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-12-23 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | keepamovin wrote:
       | Go on. You know you want to.
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | Cool, I have like keeping track of this site and nice to see a
       | new release
        
       | siltcakes wrote:
       | I remember reading issue #1 I found on a BBS in the mid-90s and
       | thinking that I was born about 10 years too late to enjoy the
       | real golden era of computing.
        
         | thelittleone wrote:
         | The mid-nineties was a treat for phreaking and hacking.
        
           | ElectRabbit wrote:
           | Putting signalling and payload into the same pipe was a great
           | decision decision for us
        
         | gwbas1c wrote:
         | One of my callers brought down a local airport. (I heard bits
         | and pieces of the story over time.) (Edit: I ran a dial-up BBS
         | between 1996-1998.)
         | 
         | Turns out they had a modem answering the phone for remote
         | access, and no password. My caller (and a few others) would
         | wardial and exchange numbers. They had no idea what they were
         | calling. My caller, who brought it down, eventually found some
         | documentation and the "reboot" command. He had no idea what
         | happened when he rebooted the computer until the feds came
         | knocking on his door.
         | 
         | Later, I had an opportunity to meet one of the people involved
         | in the investigation, who used the incident in a major keynote.
         | I asked, "were you talking about the incident with [name of
         | caller]?" He responded that "he didn't talk about
         | investigations with minors." (Edit: Because my caller's phone
         | was tapped, I was always afraid that I was on some kind of
         | watch list.)
        
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