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This guy Time Travels. (check his hands, he likely has extra fingers) But... lets look at the availability of DATA in the 80s.. Frankly, this is how hacking/p
by samstave 3y ago
This guy Time Travels. (check his hands, he likely has extra fingers)
But... lets look at the availability of DATA in the 80s..
Frankly, this is how hacking/phreaking was invented.
Dumpster-diving for line-printer discards in dumpsters to understand what their systems did.
(This is an actual story; people were bin dipping (at&t?) dumpsters and finding exploits (social or electronic) in the discarded line-printer outputs....
Can someone validate that comment?
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- r3trohack3r 3y agoThis spirit appears to be alive and well. Brian Roemmele says they've been dumpster diving for decades salvaging huge collections of microfilm/microfiche that's been thrown out by libraries, research institutions, etc. Now that LLMs are here, they're taking that collection and training an LLM against it (instead of the internet): https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1746945969533665422 https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1746945969533665422