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That reminds me of some story I read back in the 90s about some famous hackers (I think the ones who testified to Congress from MIT). One of them knew their ap
by sushshshsh 6y ago
That reminds me of some story I read back in the 90s about some famous hackers (I think the ones who testified to Congress from MIT).
One of them knew their apartment was going to be raided by the FBI so they left a suitcase full of encrypted cassette tapes in there for the FBI to salivate over.
After finally decrypting the first one, I believe it was just static noise :)
- dwild 6y ago> After finally decrypting the first one, I believe it was just static noise :) That sound fishy, was there any metadata to confirm it has been decrypted? That's the thing with encryption, it's just math, it won't "fail" anything if you got the wrong key, you'll just get random data back.
- touisteur 6y agoI hoped, HOPED, this story would end with a link to YouTube where a man in a trenchcoat performs a strange dance while lip-syncing to very concerning lyrics about a man that would never give her up, never let her down... Yes, I earned the downvotes, have at it. Anyway this made me want to read Cryptonomicon for the 5th time and gift it to some younguns.
- sushshshsh 6y agoHehe... wish I had a link for you, I went digging around the internet with some serious Google fu and didn't turn up much. The MIT guys were l0pht, but I couldn't find any stories linked to them. The original story was in a 200 ish page library book I rented in 2004 or so, and I imagine the publishing of that book was in the early to mid 90s based on the tech and artwork involved :) It was at Half Hollow Hills public library, which has since been demolished!
- staticautomatic 6y agoSame people behind the eponymous cracks from the 90’s warez scene?