I'm working on a hidden puzzle for the 40th anniversary phrack edition which is scheduled for release this summer. If you're a reader of it be on the lookout for curiosities and scrutinize everything. There is a prize at the end and it's going to be fun. :)
moby dick was written in my city (new bedford, ma - former whaling capitol of the world and #1 fishing port in the usa today). the author stayed here downtown after moving from nantucket in order to write and was not famous until after he died, sadly. he was a fisherman in real life and the book is excellent if you're familiar with the history of whaling.
I tried to get gcp to go with my golang stuff. I used PayPal with a debit card and an Amex attached to it. I was instantly banned as well.
So I said fuck it and got the aws equivalent. It's really unfortunate and doesnt inspire confidence in their products/support. No remediation and immediate algorithmic bans is a system that's broken. Its not up to me to try again. Thats on Google.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28647191 and don't post like this again. If you have evidence (by which I mean any shred of anything objective), please email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look into it.
Both broke the site guidelines. We can't respond to every case of that—there are just too many. Insinuation about the astroturf/shill/bot/spy thing is the bigger problem.
Asking the question about HN manipulation, when several other people have been asking, "How is this on HN", is unreasonable?
Is HN somehow immune from the manipulation that much larger, much better funded sites have experienced (where ample evidence exists)?
This was not some criticism of HN, this was a valid question which people should ponder on. Presumably most of us HN readers do not expect the content to be targeted manipulation or disinformation. But we cannot be blind to the possibility... else what is the point of even being here?
When I am hitting HN (tonight at least) about every 15 minutes out of boredom, and I see a story pop up on the front page with rapidly increasing votes - especially a story that is rather controversial and not typically what HN people get uniformly excited about - I wonder if something unusual is going on.
Perhaps it really is a lot of pro-Trump HN readers using their Friday afternoons to upvote this story, but that also seems unlikely.
Ok, I take your point that you were asking in good faith. The line between question and insinuation can be blurry. The fact is, though, that astroturfer/shill/bot/foreign-agent/paid-troll/infiltrating-spies is the explanation internet users reflexively invoke at the slightest provocation, nearly always with zero evidence. The overwhelming majority of the time, it's nothing but a sinister, sensational fantasy. This poisons discussion and community. Therefore we have a rule asking people not to post such things, but rather to email us at hn@ycombinator.com if they're worried about manipulation. That way we can base the response on something objective (by looking at the data) and the threads won't go haywire down the poisonous path.
I don't think you need to invoke "pro-Trump readers" to explain why a story like this might get upvoted. Not everyone is a passionate partisan.
they had 2fa before most orgs and even launched a beta for the public called "AOL PASSCODE". aim had 2fa i remember host guide something with the password "pepper" had it in 2002.
paste did not hack anything he is just an archivist of aol lore. my pr0gz are on there i found them while searching for {s gotmail to add to my phone alert notifications. we follow each other on twitter and he's just a wholesome dude with no sketchy background other than writing vb pr0gz with the rest of us in aol://2719-2-2-vb
I was referencing the content of the post and its discussion of Jay Satiro’s felony convictions. The domain looks to be a great archive of old AOL things.
you're talking about cameron "cam0" lacroix who got that and a default ssh key. he was raided on frederick street for that at age 14, but being a minor and a legend at opssec he was not charged or arrested - just raided for good measure by bill zaleski (sp) at 703.265.4040 :)
Hi this author is unexposed and not entirely accurate in his reporting. We (dfntsc) hacked Cris,Merlin, Gandalf, and whaops.
I even stole juberti's name and took "Justin" (aim only account) until it was frauded by opsec44 at the behest of a snitch very late to the game calling himself "defiant"
Kim zetter wrote about our antics 20 years ago I am just posting this here because the title is misleading and is demonstrative of the author's ignorance and absence from the scene given we dont know each other and I consider myself aoleet in a very very small circle. I know dime (Dave) and his brother that's mentioned in the article. My boy helped him write his fdo token scanner in addition to making his own *toolZ. I do not know this author.
Nice pictures but they are not even his. Clout chaser.
E: The author is kevin/pad. A groupie from conferences with no technical apitutde. U may know him as the founder of the Minerva token which got owned (since technically inept)
Anyway, read this article like it was written by a groupie and not an authority on the subject /active participant.
When cryptome.org got defaced and hacked we were monitoring pad snitching in jya@earthlink.net emails from pad@yayo.org.
Its our culture we should be proud of it. Especially since many of us were spending our childhoods together virtually. The internet was much different then but I sincerely appreciate it when those of us who were around then, in any capacity, reminisce.
There are no more new AOLers and those with fun memories associated with the platform are always going to be more special to me than many others just because that's where I learned to computer and I've many delightful experiences there.
I can’t upvote this comment enough. It really speaks to something I’ve felt for so long about AOL. You are right that it was a different Internet, one where we teens could make mistakes while coming of age on a new communications medium without lifelong consequences we see so many young people fall into now. AOL got me into programming and tech in general. I also met some great people who, despite perhaps never meeting them face-to-face, made an impact on the person I came to be. It’s a shame that nearly all of those relationships ended, but it is what it is. I love when stories like this pop up once in a while because it feels good being reminded that I’m not alone in my experiences.
Disclaimer: The person I am replying to is an unhinged, imaginative drug addict and confidence man. He crafted his post to look like he didn't already know I wrote the blog post.
Let's clarify everything since you are a liar.
> We (dfntsc) hacked Cris,Merlin, Gandalf, and whaops.
You hacked CRIS and Merlin like everyone else. You never popped WHAOPS. Ever. I'd need a more reliable source than you - you're a known liar and you've only publicly proven it ITT.
> The author is kevin/pad. A groupie from conferences with no technical apitutde.
I rarely if ever hung out in SE/phreaker conferences with you skids. After my time. You mean to imply that the second you popped up I was a groupie? You were brand new, and you've never left that category in my mind because your skills haven't progressed. I have no technical aptitude? The same week I turned in a Slack RCE you were bragging about simple XSS on Twitter. You've always been a charlatan.
> Anyway, read this article like it was written by a groupie and not an authority on the subject /active participant.
A groupie? Not an authority on the subject? I've been in contact with Dime about the post. Since you "know" him - ask him yourself. Then ask him whether he sent me his Delphi browser for my own personal use around the time WHAOPS got popped.
> When cryptome.org got defaced and hacked we were monitoring pad snitching in jya@earthlink.net emails from pad@yayo.org.
You dumbasses used my website as a launchpad to claim the defacement.
Nobody ratted on you.
Someone, other than me, e.g. not "pad@yayo.org" emailed the cryptome guy a URL to your thread. I had to shut down yayo.org with a disclaimer saying we didn't endorse illegal activity. Nobody wanted skid heat from a website defacement. You idiots were barely allowed to hang out with us as is and cryptome only sealed the deal. Never change Justin. Apologies to the rest of you for the AODrama - but I felt obligated to reply to this disgruntled lunatic and his readers with some unbiased clarification based in reality. You've always been a pain in my ass, dude. Get off my jock once and for all. The cognitive dissonance involved in you calling me a groupie.
Yikes.
and not for nothin' we're in our thirties null - but i'll happily go back and forth with you if you want brokeboi
Commenters here need to follow the rules regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are—maybe you don't owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. Our goal is to be a web forum that doesn't eventually fry itself the way they usually do.
sir the only articles written about your internet impact have been by your own hand, and they're not entirely accurate. the whole scene knows it and calls me to respond to your submission here while minding my own business doing my thing since i am an actual verifiable authority on this subject to other respected domain leaders and you're just attention seeking because your life sucks. on your 2nd hn account talking to me
this guy wasn't even around yet when whaops was hacked by dime. that's how new he is. i've been chatting with dime and he confirmed his friend didn't "help him code" anything
"null" here is slandering me over a personal beef spanning 15 years, and on reddit he was doing it in conjunction with xyrix and/or virus - due to the same 15+ year personal beef i have with that whole crew - or they have with me, rather. they follow me around the internet and attack like hyenas when i write or do anything public facing. these dudes are factually obsessed with me and i'm still not entirely sure why. it's flattering at least
null, you're not an authority on some shit you weren't even around for. calling me a groupie spectator to aol hacking, or to imply i didn't surf lan and wreck 500 - 1,000+ ints throughout my ao-career. you're out of your mind. nobody actually in the know would make the claim that pad wasn't deeply involved in ao-hacking. i was there in 1997 loading up punters for aol 2.5 - whereas you didn't come around until 2004. an authority. ha
as far as what's written about me - none of it was planted, or because i was caught for ridiculous bullshit like bothering celebrities and people with lexnex xs
