The article that illustration was attached to also included this nifty graphic of recent computer crime related incidents, all of them cases of insiders with computer access abusing that access to steal money or data. Three of the cases were in Australia, one in France and one in the U.S.
We also get "COMPUTER CRIME SPEAK" compiled by Jill Baker, always funny from this era because it was often really antiquated terminology that was never really used or language that was used by confused journalists and was picked up by other confused journalists.
I’ll be honest, hearing SEO people complain about the state of Google now is like hearing an arsonist complain that they just can’t get the quality of kerosene they used to.
Fascinating to see, from #FOIA docs, how agencies like the #FBI structure their paperwork for investigating #hacking. What details did they feel should be included or might be relevant, how did the forms develop over time? This example is from 2004. Always makes me wonder why they care about CPU
After some online sleuthing I was able to track down a copy of "The Phine Art of Phone Phreaking", from LA Weekly magazine back in July of 1980. This article was essentially lost media on the clear web, as I demonstrate in the image below. I'll be adding what I have to @internetarchive later on.
I've clipped interviews with hackers from the 1980's from longer TV news segments, you can find the longer segments linked below as well. We are talking about primary sources here, hackers in the 1980's talking about hacking, filmed at the time.
@kaia in fairness Russia purchased it and it is a shell of its former self, I think George RR Martin was one of the few notable users left and he abandoned the platform years ago. Still, lot of memories there and they didn’t just ‘accidentally’ jettison user data like MySpace did.
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