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O͖̺͊̕͡ͅfficial bluesky for realhackhistory YouTube channel & blog, skeeting the #history of phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as portrayal of hackers in media. No AI used. Hobbyist #skystorian.
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This is a technological money pit and the pit is on fire.
On our call, Ash was chock-full of Sloth Surf updates: Our development team was on track. User testing had finished last Friday. Mobile performance was up 40 percent. Our marketing materials were in progress. It was an impressive litany. The only problem was, there was no development team, or user testing, or mobile performance. It was all made up.
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Mr. Soul of suspected Iranian APT linked hacktivist group Cyb3rAv3ngers resurfaces.
Hey geeks! I'm going to stay away from hacking for sometime... MR SOL Mr. Soul Community admin 09:50 In the upcoming time, l wanna cover momentous hacking news together with my specialized analysis about hacking stuff. 09:52 l've set up an analytical news website and I'II announce it in the coming days...
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Don’t do any work or communicate with your coworkers
The “JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.” televangelist meme
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I too have read a book and would like everyone to know it.
Secrets of a Super Hacker by the Knightmare
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It is so weird looking at tweets from before the various changes to character counts, they are all so short and the stupid little grok symbol tacked on looks extra incongruous.
Some tweets from 2014 about TeaMp0isoN
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Back to working on this blog about 1980s anti-hacker hacktivist John Maxfield.
For his part Maxfield is generally a little cagier about hanging out with these teenage hackers in person, though in the book Profits of Deceit he does describe the following events. Maxfield even got to know them personally, inviting hackers to his office at the height of the post-War Games frenzy. Kids travelled over 600 miles, from as far away as Washington, DC, to come and meet the veteran hacker and phone phreak, and to play with his equipment. Most of the Inner Circle turned up: the Stainless Steel Rat, PBX Super Switch, Myth, System Lord, Mr Binary, the Rodent and, of course, their leader, the Wizard of Arpanet. Maxfield told them that he worked as a telephone-equipment repair-man. Profits of Deceit, Patricia Franklin, 1990 I must point out here that I am not implying any additional impropriety here, I think the facts as presented above are alarming enough in themselves. A man in his mid forties luring teenage boys from across the U.S. to come and spend the weekend at his house so that he can compile incriminating dossiers on them, for the FBI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This opinion piece is incredibly defensive from start to finish for a reason, the arguments really do amount to changing the definition of words like “conscious” and “intelligent”.

If the goalposts are moved any further they will need to be placed on orbiting satellites.
You might object that this is a verbal trick, that I'm arguing that A.I. will become conscious because we'll start using the word "conscious" to include it. But there is no trick. There is always a feedback loop between our theories and the world, so that our concepts are shaped by what we discover.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Social media in 2026 if GenAI isn't reigned in.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Me after having spent two hours looking through online newspaper archives for historical hacker events I missed.
Trump falling asleep
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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😎
Headline from The Telegraph, 12th of July, 1985 "Computer crime - illegal, but highly imaginative"
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A video clip from, I think 1995, on the early web, the infamous Cyberia cafe in London (which had just opened a year before) and the arrest of Datastream Cowboy (briefly mentioned).
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Adding "be able to fight off a team of scrappy grocery store clerks" to my opsec advice for aspiring hackers.
Lodi News-Sentinel, 15th of April, 1991 LOS ANGELES - A group of alert grocery store clerks jumped one of the FBI's most wanted computer fraud fugitives and held him until authorities arrived to make the arrest. Kevin L. Poulsen, accused of tapping into a U.S. Army computer network, was arrested Thursday after employees at a Hughes Market in suburban Van Nuys recognized him as a regular customer. "He was on his way to the canned vegetable aisle and just didn't make it," said clerk Jon Lacson, 21. "He was jumped from behind, and just kept asking, "What did I do?""
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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These illustrations from a "Boy's Life" magazine article on #hackers from March of 1993.
#hacker #hacking #history
An angry looking blond boy typing on a keyboard, there is a list of credit card numbers taped to his computer monitor. A policeman is standing in a room, there is an open drawer and what looks like a broken window. The blond boy is in handcuffs and his bedroom door has been knocked off of its hinges, the list of credit card numbers has been torn off of the monitor.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Gen-X were always the most disagreeable people online in my experience, Boomers at least had being old and ignorant and completely out of touch as an excuse.
Besides, in our own heads, if nowhere else, gen X were always the mild-mannered peacekeepers of the culture wars: not old enough to be deemed reactionary or young enough to be woke, and instead occupying a kind of cheerfully moderate Goldilocks zone in-between.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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AI industry like:
That comic strip character (from Popeye maybe?) who always says: ILL GLADLY PAY YOU TUESDAY FOR HAMBURGER TODAY
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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They’ve already been threatening to.
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send ur login m or im getting a corp account and getting u fired send ur login right now 10 minutes im gonna send someone over there at a random time so when ur sleeping u wont know when send ur loginG and everything goes away we delete ur info after we have what we need or u can get ur house shot u pick one 8 minutes in the next 5 hours Text Message
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Crowdstrike claims Scattered Spider planned to have accomplices physically travel to target company offices to connect to WiFi and enable access to target networks.
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"According to the threat actor's instructions, individuals selected for the operation would need to obtain a 'burner' Windows laptop, travel to the UK-based entity's corporate headquarters to connect to the onsite Wi-Fi, and provide remote access to the laptop via RDP," it said in the report.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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New York Times coverage of the UPenn breach.
The University of Pennsylvania has reported a massive data breach to the Federal Bureau of Investigation involving 1.2 million lines of data including information on Penn donors, alumni and students, as well as internal university memos and banking information. Some of the information is believed to date back decades. The hacker, who appeared to be partly political motivated, also sent vulgar mass emails to Penn students and alumni last week accusing the Ivy League school of being "woke" and loving "legacies, donors and unqualified affirmative action admits." The breach followed similar hacks within the past year at New York University and Columbia. The Columbia breach resulted in the disclosure that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate in the New York City mayoral race, identified himself as both Asian and Black or African American when he applied to the school in 2009.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I regret to inform everyone that Russia aligned hacktivists are at it again with the weird shit.
• CLOBELSECTEAM •
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Remember last year when this was meant to be where we’d all be at today
Guy with an Apple Vision Pro and a robot dog
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Russian hacktivist group TwoNet now amplifying Telegram messages that pit Kurdish interests against Ukraine, these alliances are so tangled and contradictory but if this becomes a larger part of the overall alliance perhaps Russian hackers will be attacking Turkey and Iran soon?
Kurdistan / Rojava Ukraine كه بابهتهكه ده بيّته ماف و ئازادى كورد ياخود سه ربه خوّيى كوردستان هه مووان بيّده نكَ ده بن! له ئاست ئه و زولّم و ستهمهى له كورد ده كريّت كهس باسى مافى كورد ناكات كهس بير له مروّقايهتى ناكاتهوه بوّ كورد كه س ناليّت كوردستان با سه ربه خوّ بيّت! When the issue becomes Kurdish rights and freedom or Kurdistan's independence, everyone will be silent! Nobody talks about Kurdish rights, nobody thinks about humanity for Kurds, nobody says Kurdistan should be independent!
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I have wondered for some time how much data is floating about from ransomware gang leaks that never gets properly analysed in cases like this. This was a similar issue with big hacktivist leaks, so much potentially important data that doesn’t ever get in front of the right eyes.
Last year, the ransomware gang BlackSuit published the police files after the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reportedly refused to pay a ransom. The breach was part of a growing trend of law enforcement and other government agencies being targeted by ransomware groups.
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I see him everywhere.
A bracelet made of two bits of rope attached to a metal clasp.
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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FBI are stumped but meanwhile HitlerLover1488 on Twitter can work out who did this within seconds.
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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ZagNet seems to be a pro-Kurdish DDoS group, not something I’ve come across before. Statement from their Telegram
You all know that we have responded badly to anyone who opposed us in the past, either he gave up or was forced to stop opposing Kurdistan because these small Persian teams that attack Israel for their reputation are for Iran and not for Islam. Do you have any evidence that the Kurds are at peace? Or we can prove how many Kurds are targeted daily in the name of Mossad members, which is all a lie
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM