Chronicling the history of the computer underground, hackers, crackers, phone phreaks and the high-tech low life of the past.
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20.1.2025 16:36Comment on First Hacktivist Protest? Oberlin College Anti-Apartheid Computer Shutdown in 1984 by Number1SummerJam… liked this!
20.1.2025 16:36Comment on First Hacktivist Protest? Oberlin College Anti-Apartheid Computer Shutdown in 1984 by Number1SummerJamPeople say there’s nothing new on Earth and certainly when it comes to hacking and hacktivism someone did whatever it is you are thinking of before you think anyone did. To understand the background of this story we need to understand apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial segregation put in place and maintained […]
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10.1.2025 16:28Comment on Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists by Mx Verda… liked this!
26.10.2024 01:17Comment on Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists by J A<p><a href="https://realhackhistory.org/@realhackhistory.org" rel="ugc">@realhackhistory.org</a> That guy who wouldn't get off my local dialup BBS was the first DOS attack, in my opinion.</p>
22.10.2024 17:59Comment on Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists by resipiscent[…] Hackers were not always demonised, hacking was not always a part of pop culture and the word “hacker” itself was not widely used to describe anything other than a bad golfer until mid 1983. I’ve written a whole blog on the topic. […]
22.10.2024 15:53Comment on 1983: The Year Pop Culture Caught Up With Hackers by Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists – realhackhisto...[…] The image at the top of this blog is, from what I can find, the first stock image photo of a hacker in a ski mask that ever appeared in print, carrying on a visual association between hackers and bank robbers or safe crackers that has continued since 1969. […]
22.10.2024 15:53Comment on The Term Computer Cracker Goes Back to 1969! by Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists – realhackhistoryThis particular blog entry is about why, during the midst of the pandemic, I decided to devote many hours to trying to place the past of the "dark side" of hacking in historical context.
22.10.2024 15:52Muddled History of the Digital Underground: Why realhackhistory Exists[…] If you want to learn about why 1983 was a pivotal year for public awareness of the hacker underground you can read that blog. […]
9.9.2024 12:07Comment on 1983: The Year Pop Culture Caught Up With Hackers by 80’s Hackers, In Their Own Words – realhackhistoryI'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.
9.9.2024 12:0780’s Hackers, in Their Own Words[…] this point, as I have written about on my blog on 1983 and hacking, the Inner Circle and 414s hacking groups had been busted the previous year. BBS hacker culture was […]
27.7.2024 09:07Comment on 1983: The Year Pop Culture Caught Up With Hackers by Televised Drake University Hack of 1984 – Hackers & Reporters – realhackhistoryA lot of people consider hacktivism to be a phenomenon associated with the mid to late 90’s, or maybe the late 2000’s with Anonymous and their various spin-offs. This blog is about a hacktivist campaign run out of Durham, North Carolina, that took place in 1986 though. U.S. hackers taking on the Soviet Union over […]
26.7.2024 14:47U.S. Phone Phreaks Versus the USSR – Hacktivism in 1986A lot of hacker stories are sadly very similar, a kid goes on a hacking spree, defacing websites for clout, isn’t careful with their opsec and finally gets busted. Every now and then though a really weird story comes along that sounds like a plot from a 90’s technological thriller movie or TV show, this […]
22.7.2024 10:21The Cat, the Hacker & the RAT, Tokyo’s Bomb Scare ‘Demon Killer’ & His Feline Friend[…] wrote a couple of small blogs about the Nihilist Order, a carding group that made the news in 1986, but many others were busted before them. One such […]
19.3.2024 17:15Comment on The Nihilist Order (Part 1) by Dox Creating Carders Build a Dossier on a Journalist in 1985 – Hackers & Reporters – realhackhistoryIn April of 1985 a writer for the Milwaukee Journal newspaper answered his phone only to find himself on a conference call with teenage hackers. These hackers told Eric K. Meyer, the journalist involved, details of his academic records from his high-school years, his electricity bill and his work history. All of this stemmed from […]
19.3.2024 17:14Dox Creating Carders Build a Dossier on a Journalist in 1985 – Hackers & ReportersThis is the second in a series of blogs I’m writing about those times over the years that journalists got too close to the world of hackers and became part of their own news story. You can find the first entry, about the hacking of an Iowa university for a TV special, right here. Night […]
6.1.2024 17:02Singed by Dragonfire: Newsweek Writer Richard Sandza’s Hacker BBS ‘Teletrial’ – Hackers & ReportersThis is the first in what will be a series of shorter blogs on hackers and journalists, or how the mainstream media can find itself caught up in trouble with the hacking subculture. This particular story from the mid 1980s involves a reporter from a regional Iowa TV station in the United States. He contacted […]
21.11.2023 12:57Televised Drake University Hack of 1984 – Hackers & Reporters1983 was the year that popular culture in the US caught on to the existence of hackers, hacker culture and first set foot on the path to total hacker hysteria.
29.9.2023 15:051983: The Year Pop Culture Caught Up With HackersThe Kosovo War lasted from February 1998 through to June 1999. In parallel with the brutal physical conflict was an online battle between hackers from Russia, the US, China, Holland and parts of the former Yugoslavia, an international 'cyberwar'.
16.7.2023 09:53First International Hacktivist ‘Cyberwar’? Online Conflict & the Kosovo War