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Taking over AOL “int” accounts was actually considered pretty basic at that time. Getting in the lan as he mentioned was the bigger goal but also wasn’t hard to

Taking over AOL “int” accounts was actually considered pretty basic at that time. Getting in the lan as he mentioned was the bigger goal but also wasn’t hard to do at all once you had a few “int” logins. The best was when Gosh took screenshots of the leader of security(whose computer he compromised) berating his reports for lax security, and sent them to all of his reports. My favorite accounts were “overhead” accounts that lacked ratelimits, was fun to DoS entire rooms of users offline by finding the chat.

pbear2k23 3y ago
> Taking over AOL “int” accounts was actually considered pretty basic at that time. to the skillful it was considered basic - for sure. there was a lot of collaborative intelligence in the aol "hacking" scene, though. and you could do a lot on an int. even reading internal aol emails often returned a treasure trove of new tools and information >The best was when Gosh legend >was fun to DoS entire rooms of users offline yeah that could be done to older computers just by scrolling without rate limits as you mentioned. semi-related - i once found a dos in skype that made use of skype4com.dll to change your display name hundreds of times per second. if you had more memory on your computer than your contacts did you could dos hundreds of people at once. i remember it reminding me of some corny aol "hack"