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The classic hactivist tactic of trying to make defacing the website for a karaoke bar in some random country sound impactful is even stranger when it has a bunch of intense religious messaging around it, trying to make it sound like a conquest on behalf of god.

@sam I’m on Bluesky as well and never see Threads mentioned there either, it is like a black hole unless you are on Instagram I guess.

@cyanautik it is like hearing about a secret moonbase or something

I genuinely go weeks forgetting that Threads still exists and then see it mentioned in an article or a blog and think oh crap, Threads is a thing.

If your website insists on me reading in an app I’m either going to a paywall removing site or just not reading what you have to say. Stop trying to put every damn thing in an app.

@elithebearded security through obscurity

@twaagoo oh this and the hacking book should have just been handed out to every teenager in the early 00s.

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@realhackhistory "From the series that brought you...!"

@landurologe the book was published in 2003 :)

@everbern I hope people keep putting quarters in to keep it all whirring along

@miro it isn’t a terrible book in some ways but for 2003 America very anachronistic

Is this right?

A diagram explaining how the internet works in 2003 with a computer, a modem, a telephone line, an internet service provider and the internet all represented by images with arrows connecting them all.

Teenager getting handcuffed across the bonnet of a police car by two cops

Subtitle: Newbies, who have limited computer skills, can very easily get into trouble with the law

Teenager looking at a computer screen.

Subtitle: Computer hackers are often teenagers just like you

Finally a book for people who got in trouble on the computer.
https://archive.org/details/everythingyounee00knit_0/

Teenage boy looking at a computer monitor covered in post-it notes.

Book cover says

The Need to Know Library

Everything you need to know about

The Dangers of Computer Hacking

John Knittel and Michael Soto

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@realhackhistory Oh, those anarchists.

The Guardian reports on 2600 Magazine being available in the UK, back in 1986

"While the motives of the leather-clad anarchist can be difficult to define, those of the technological variety are more straightforward. The overwhelming motivation of the computer anarchist is to see egg on the face of authority."

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https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr

When a user who hasn't logged in to the system before (i.e. doesn't exist in the authd user database) logs in via SSH, the user is considered a member of the root group in the context of the SSH session. That leads to a local privilege escalation if the user should not have root privileges.

Comic drawing of a girl smiling and saying "wat?"

Whoopi Goldberg and Carol Kane looking skeptically at a computer in an open plan office.

Is Jumpin’ Jack Flash a hacker movie? I swear I tried to watch this in the eighties and can’t remember anything about it.
https://youtu.be/eWBr7HGnouM

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