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You don't leave that one hanging. What's the story? Care to share?
by maaku 11y ago
You don't leave that one hanging. What's the story? Care to share?
- dopamean 11y agoIt's really not that interesting. I was 15 and played around with some computers that belongs to the US Navy. Then one day at 6 am I heard a loud knock on the front door.
- bdempsey 11y agoWould .. you .. like .. to .. play .. a .. game?
- beachstartup 11y agoindeed, a common story. i get the feeling the fbi did a lot of before-school visits to teenagers dicking around on irc in the mid 90s. they showed up to my place once. the guy said to contact him after i graduated if i was looking for work, lol. for what it's worth, they had binders and binders full of efnet logs.
- codezero 11y agoI keep hearing this and it makes me realize I wasn't as cool as I thought I was in the 90s :P The FBI visited once, my dad freaked out and told me before he answered the door. Turns out someone was exposing themselves to kids on Halloween.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoYou don't still do that do you?
- icelancer 11y agoI got dinged as well. Similar story on efnet logs. No charges but they announced their presence with authority. Left me a business card too.
- scruple 11y agoYep, myself and a friend and they had logs from one of our Undernet channels. Interesting to hear that it was somewhat commonplace. I hadn't heard any similar stories until the mid 00s and ours happened around 97 or 98.
- icelancer 11y agoYeah mine while I was in high school and it was 1998. I think there was a lot of FBI trolling the usual channels in the late 90's when the 2600-related movements were really getting underway. Strange how different - and how similar! - the scene is today. Good memories, except that law enforcement back then was a lot less scary...
- codezero 11y agoMost of the people I know who got busted back then were into telco systems so they ended up with a fine, usually around 1-2k. I'm guessing the navy wasn't so kind :/
- walshemj 11y agoI used to work at British telecom with a guy who had been a phreak and got caught hacking Prestel - one day one of BT's security (SD Directorate) guys who had busted him bumped into him at work and was not pleased. I also worked for the Systems administrator who was in charge of the machine in the Prince Philip hack.
- dopamean 11y agoThey were real dicks for sure. Fortunately I was 15 and it was pre-9/11 (by about 7 months). I'm not so sure things would have gone as well for me today.
- fapjacks 11y agoHah! Sounds like my story, except mine involved the main newspaper in the next big city over from my hometown. Totally uninteresting.
- jlgaddis 11y agoHeh, 18 years ago today I had a loud knock on my door. (The story isn't that interesting but the timing is -- to me.)