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Re: AOLServer, Are you thinking of Jay Satiro (Ref: http://justinakapaste.com/from-o0o-of-aol-files/ http://justinakapaste.com/from-o0o-of-aol-files/) ? T

by tyoma 5y ago

Re: AOLServer, Are you thinking of Jay Satiro (Ref: http://justinakapaste.com/from-o0o-of-aol-files/ http://justinakapaste.com/from-o0o-of-aol-files/) ? The author implies that the whaops hackers had their own malware, written in Delphi, to do the on-lan redirection.

lanstin 5y ago
Oh yeah you are right no jumped to conclusions. Nice link there, the AOLserver tho was just a web server, not the whole server framework or OS. https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver It was written by some company that we bought. It was also the basis for Greenspun’s excellent book on database backed web sites. Yeah, and on rereading the original article, the hack was just guessing the passwords to admin AIM accounts. I hope it wasn’t mine! From my perspective that is “works as designed”. I don’t think the TFA was ever put into AIM login, but it was all a while ago. But anyways, nice to seem one of the dumb names I came up with in the press. I also wrote wam (web authentication module), Hermes (messenger of the Gods - like buddy list but where users could add data sources to the list, with filters or alarms), Ewoks (“external web Oscar knowledge server”, an http server that allowed for easy integration into the server message framework we used) and re-wrote morf “master Oscar registration facility”. The original was a custom written no-SQL DB and we moved it to Sybase with sharding.). All C. All event loop based. All really solid infrastructure written by people doing it for the third time. Fun times. Had an actual agile process and brought the coolness of the internet to many people for the first time.
risk 5y ago
paste did not hack anything he is just an archivist of aol lore. my pr0gz are on there i found them while searching for {s gotmail to add to my phone alert notifications. we follow each other on twitter and he's just a wholesome dude with no sketchy background other than writing vb pr0gz with the rest of us in aol://2719-2-2-vb
- tyoma 5y ago
  I was referencing the content of the post and its discussion of Jay Satiro’s felony convictions. The domain looks to be a great archive of old AOL things.

by tyoma 5y ago

lanstin 5y ago

Oh yeah you are right no jumped to conclusions. Nice link there, the AOLserver tho was just a web server, not the whole server framework or OS. https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver It was written by some company that we bought. It was also the basis for Greenspun’s excellent book on database backed web sites. Yeah, and on rereading the original article, the hack was just guessing the passwords to admin AIM accounts. I hope it wasn’t mine! From my perspective that is “works as designed”. I don’t think the TFA was ever put into AIM login, but it was all a while ago. But anyways, nice to seem one of the dumb names I came up with in the press. I also wrote wam (web authentication module), Hermes (messenger of the Gods - like buddy list but where users could add data sources to the list, with filters or alarms), Ewoks (“external web Oscar knowledge server”, an http server that allowed for easy integration into the server message framework we used) and re-wrote morf “master Oscar registration facility”. The original was a custom written no-SQL DB and we moved it to Sybase with sharding.). All C. All event loop based. All really solid infrastructure written by people doing it for the third time. Fun times. Had an actual agile process and brought the coolness of the internet to many people for the first time.

risk 5y ago

paste did not hack anything he is just an archivist of aol lore. my pr0gz are on there i found them while searching for {s gotmail to add to my phone alert notifications. we follow each other on twitter and he's just a wholesome dude with no sketchy background other than writing vb pr0gz with the rest of us in aol://2719-2-2-vb

tyoma 5y ago
I was referencing the content of the post and its discussion of Jay Satiro’s felony convictions. The domain looks to be a great archive of old AOL things.