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For context: L0phtCrack -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0phtCrack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0phtCrack DilDog -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christien

• codetrotter 5y ago
  The cDc were a fun gang of people I think. I was too young to know about them when they were at their top but I read about them just a couple of years later. For example, the Wikipedia page about Christen Rioux that you linked cites a news article from '99 which was entertaining to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20071105094322/http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/0712sec2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071105094322/http://www.networ... (And also thanks to people like those that run the Internet Archive who make history accessible when original pages bitrot.)
  • marcodiego 5y ago
    Those times, end of the 90's, was basically wild west. Many uneducated people fresh on the internet, netbus just recently available, news users would install anything you ask them... I would call that real hacking but kiddies at the time had a lot of fun creating problems to the new netizens.
• mike_d 5y ago
  Also for background, L0phtcrack was sold Terahash (a company that builds password cracking machines for corporate security teams) in April of last year. Due to the GPU shortage they have been unable to produce products and are in bankruptcy. Terahash defaulted in a payment and the ownership reverted back to L0pht.
• unfocused 5y ago
  Oh wow. I forgot about them! I was just starting out as a teen in the 90s. Went to a couple of 2600 meetings waaay back in the day. That was indeed a wild west scene. I had no idea what I was doing :)