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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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I had never heard of this case before, a dev business called Logisticon dialled into Revlon systems and disabled software they had written after a dispute over contractual payments for the software.
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Tiny Software Firm Cripples Giant Revlon in Pay Dispute
A small software firm, using a high-tech guerrilla tactic to "repossess" its product from Revlon Inc. for non-payment, briefly crippled the cosmetic giant with a midnight phone call.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I had never heard of this case before, a dev business called Logisticon dialled into Revlon systems and disabled software they had written after a dispute over contractual payments for the software.
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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In 2019, TikTok admitted to suppressing the content of fat, disabled, and queer users. In 2020 they claim a “glitch” caused the suppression of George Floyd content.
Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale.
These systems are operating as intended.
Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale.
These systems are operating as intended.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In 2019, TikTok admitted to suppressing the content of fat, disabled, and queer users. In 2020 they claim a “glitch” caused the suppression of George Floyd content.
Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale.
These systems are operating as intended.
Sora exists to manufacture and disseminate racism, misogyny, and misogynoir at scale.
These systems are operating as intended.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Always trust scientists who go by how random people feel and anecdotes.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Always trust scientists who go by how random people feel and anecdotes.
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Everything I retrieve gets put on archive dot org so that anyone can view and use them as they wish. You can check out an example from 1985 here:
archive.org/details/1985...
archive.org/details/1985...
CBS News - July 17th, 1985 - Hacker Segment : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
CBS News broadcast from July 17th, 1985 documenting the arrests of seven teenage hackers and BBS operators in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Features...
archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Everything I retrieve gets put on archive dot org so that anyone can view and use them as they wish. You can check out an example from 1985 here:
archive.org/details/1985...
archive.org/details/1985...
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Asking for donations to retrieve a #news segment from a paid TV archive service. This one is on the first #ransomware attack ever, by Joseph Popp back in 1989. AFAIK there are zero publicly available contemporaneous news clips online right now.
#hacking #hacker #history
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#hacking #hacker #history
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Asking for donations to retrieve a #news segment from a paid TV archive service. This one is on the first #ransomware attack ever, by Joseph Popp back in 1989. AFAIK there are zero publicly available contemporaneous news clips online right now.
#hacking #hacker #history
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#hacking #hacker #history
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I know the marketing blitz and cultural narrative and intense propaganda, BUT what happened to being just baseline skeptical of information black boxes and things sounding too good to be true? I'm gullible as hell, but even I can clock something this suspicious.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I know the marketing blitz and cultural narrative and intense propaganda, BUT what happened to being just baseline skeptical of information black boxes and things sounding too good to be true? I'm gullible as hell, but even I can clock something this suspicious.
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It is so wild to see all the fundamental lessons of digital information seeking, retrieval, consumption, production, and dissemination just...get thrown out the window, seemingly out of the blue, by absolutely everyone, but especially people that I -KNOW- know better.
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It is so wild to see all the fundamental lessons of digital information seeking, retrieval, consumption, production, and dissemination just...get thrown out the window, seemingly out of the blue, by absolutely everyone, but especially people that I -KNOW- know better.
Digital colonialism.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Digital colonialism.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Asking for donations to retrieve a #news segment from a paid TV archive service. This one is on the first #ransomware attack ever, by Joseph Popp back in 1989. AFAIK there are zero publicly available contemporaneous news clips online right now.
#hacking #hacker #history
ko-fi.com/realhackhist...
#hacking #hacker #history
ko-fi.com/realhackhist...
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Become a supporter of realhackhistory today!
ko-fi.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Asking for donations to retrieve a #news segment from a paid TV archive service. This one is on the first #ransomware attack ever, by Joseph Popp back in 1989. AFAIK there are zero publicly available contemporaneous news clips online right now.
#hacking #hacker #history
ko-fi.com/realhackhist...
#hacking #hacker #history
ko-fi.com/realhackhist...
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There it is - the Evil Corp podcast boxset is complete! Finale landed today for international listeners. Working on the pod has been enormously fun and I am very proud of the story we have told! Big ups to the amazing producers who are remaining anonymous..
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
There it is - the Evil Corp podcast boxset is complete! Finale landed today for international listeners. Working on the pod has been enormously fun and I am very proud of the story we have told! Big ups to the amazing producers who are remaining anonymous..
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
On the pre-internet nobody knew you were a dog.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
On the pre-internet nobody knew you were a dog.
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Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.
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Software “writing rubbish to disk”, thank goodness we defeated that
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Software “writing rubbish to disk”, thank goodness we defeated that
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"During the station’s broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles/Dallas Cowboys game, the hijacker began running a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow them on social media."
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
radioinsight.com/headlines/32...
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
radioinsight.com/headlines/32...
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack - RadioInsight
For years now radio stations using the default Barix logins have been victims of audio feed hijackings. This afternoon Gow Media Sports “ESPN 97.5” KFNC Mont Belvieu/Houston TX fell victim. During the...
radioinsight.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"During the station’s broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles/Dallas Cowboys game, the hijacker began running a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow them on social media."
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
radioinsight.com/headlines/32...
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
radioinsight.com/headlines/32...
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Me, young, naive, reading Gibson: Holy shit a future where technology drives international geopolitics sounds amazing
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Me, young, naive, reading Gibson: Holy shit a future where technology drives international geopolitics sounds amazing
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
Me, middle aged, reading the news: The guy who wrote a fucked up IM client says France wants to assassinate Candace Owens because of Charlie Kirk stop please no more
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Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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the amazing ppl at @ddosecrets.com have taken great, great care with this release. i've seen bits and pieces already — the data inside it is horrific, like the released emails.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
the amazing ppl at @ddosecrets.com have taken great, great care with this release. i've seen bits and pieces already — the data inside it is horrific, like the released emails.
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a *gigantic* release at this early hour: 20 thousand unredacted emails from Epstein's Yahoo email (by request only/for journalists and researchers).
these are from the same trove that Bloomberg has been going through — not the Congress-released ones.
keeping eyes peeled for the reporting :)
these are from the same trove that Bloomberg has been going through — not the Congress-released ones.
keeping eyes peeled for the reporting :)
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
a *gigantic* release at this early hour: 20 thousand unredacted emails from Epstein's Yahoo email (by request only/for journalists and researchers).
these are from the same trove that Bloomberg has been going through — not the Congress-released ones.
keeping eyes peeled for the reporting :)
these are from the same trove that Bloomberg has been going through — not the Congress-released ones.
keeping eyes peeled for the reporting :)
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
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yep, if you dont know everyone in a chatgroup then assume its a public forum and then theres the old saying that in a gathering of more than 2 activists at least one of them is a cop
This story doesn’t in any way indicate that Signal is broken. This was a big signal group with open membership. Reading between the lines of the story this was 99% chance a snitch or undercover agent or cellebrite (1% chance someone’s phone got compromised)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
yep, if you dont know everyone in a chatgroup then assume its a public forum and then theres the old saying that in a gathering of more than 2 activists at least one of them is a cop