32 years ago today I registered the @L0phtHeavyInd class C. I got the email from ARIN, sent the class C address to our ISP, then got the first packets routed over our 56K modem to our 486 linux box. When those first packets come through the whole room exploded with chants of, "We on da backbone!"
Then came one of the first hacking resources on the web, shell accounts, a bbs, webcams, and lots of shenanigans. You can see an archive of the website here: gbppr.net/l0pht/l0pht.html
ALT Il Presidente della Repubblica ha fatto presente al Ministro dellāInterno, trovandone condivisione, che lāautorevolezza delle Forze dellāOrdine non si misura sui manganelli ma sulla capacitĆ di assicurare sicurezza tutelando, al contempo, la libertĆ di manifestare pubblicamente opinioni. Con i ragazzi i manganelli esprimono un fallimento.
@markrussinovich showing of the āsuper mega Godzilla beastā machine in an azure data center.
It has 29,7TB RAM and 1792 CPUs. Here you see them playing pong using task manager against GPT4
Thanks #Msignite! Until next time
1996: "Hackers", the first episode of the TV series Net Cafe aired. It was filmed in the San Francisco cyber cafe CoffeeNet. Dan Farmer, Aleph One, White Knight, Reid Fleming, Mudge, and Deth Veggie appeared in the episode. Grab some popcorn and watch! archive.org/details/nc101_haā¦
@dildog and @medus4_cdc are killing it together. Awesome balance of his technical deep dive and how he wrote the code and her vision, communication, and inspirational messaging of why @VeilidNetwork ās existence is so important for the human right for privacy.
The program of No Hat 2023 is now LIVE!
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We are particularly proud of this year's event. With two tracks and a workshop area, No Hat 2023 is going to be our largest event ever. See you in Bergamo, Italy!
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"Hardcore" engineering at Twitter 2.0: "To address extreme level of data scraping & system manipulation", Twitter added rate limiting on the backend which seems to have created a retry storm from the client that DDoS'd Twitter for at least eight hours.
ALT Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
246 points by 3cats-in-a-coat 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 351 comments
Elon Musk:
"To address extreme level of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day"
Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz94eReWYAEhkHS?format=png&name=900x900
Source (backup): https://i.imgur.com/WvwtHez.png
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This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to
Oh wow, this is kinda dirty "Hacking Ham Radio: WinAPRS". AX.25 based APRS code execution over radio frequencies. That is gold "We have shellcode that will hopefully spawn a reverse shell over ham radio using the victim machineās TNC". coalfire.com/the-coalfire-blā¦
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1995: The SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks) security tool was released by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema. The release stirred huge debate about security auditing tools being given to the public.
Fun fact: @neilhimself drew the tool's documentation artwork.