Erik Bloodaxe MEMBER_OF Legion of Doom
Erik Bloodaxe was a member of the Legion of Doom.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Bloodaxe was a member of the LoD”
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Erik Bloodaxe MEMBER_OF Legion of Doom
Erik Bloodaxe was a member of the Legion of Doom.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Bloodaxe was a member of the LoD”
Mark Abene MEMBER_OF Legion of Doom
Mark Abene, known as Phiber Optik, was voted into the Legion of Doom, although he was later kicked out.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“A few weeks later, Mark was officially voted in.”
“That’s how Mark, AKA Phiber Optik, got kicked out of the Legion of Doom”
Jack Rhysider REFERENCES Hacker Crackdown
Jack cited Hacker Crackdown as a book that helped research and write the episode.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“There’s Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling”
Jack Rhysider REFERENCES Cuckoo’s Egg
Jack recommended Cuckoo’s Egg as another book about hacking in the 1980s.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“check out the book Cuckoo’s Egg, which is a classic hacker story.”
Jack Rhysider REFERENCES Masters of Deception
Jack cited Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner as a source for the episode.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“and Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner.”
Operation Sundevil TARGETS United States
Operation Sundevil was a nationwide crackdown involving raids on hackers across the United States.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Operation Sundevil, which resulted in twenty-seven warrants for hackers spread across fourteen cities.”
Tom Keiser USES Dialed-number recorder
Tom used a dialed-number recorder to monitor connection metadata associated with the Technician's activity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“So, Tom turned to a nifty device that he had which was called the dialed-number recorder, DNR.”
Mark Abene USES Tymnet
Mark used the Tymnet access obtained through Jason's backdoor to explore and access connected computers and networks.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Mark had a whole new system to explore, a whole new network to explore, and so many computers were on this.”
Masters of Deception USES Tymnet
The Masters of Deception used Jason's backdoor access to reach the core of Tymnet and access connected networks.
Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Where Tymnet’s staff might only be able to see what’s relevant to their jobs and Tymnet users could only see what’s on their own networks, the Masters of Deception could see it all and access it all, too.”
Masters of Deception USES denial-of-service attack
The Masters of Deception-associated hackers used a denial-of-service attack by flooding Comsec's phone lines with calls.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“It was a denial-of-service attack, if you will, which tied up the phone lines and made it so nobody could ever get through to Comsec.”
Eli USES Man-in-the-middle
Eli described a technique in which the hackers disconnected an existing user, impersonated the system, and captured the user's login credentials.
Derived Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Then we’d knock them off while they were connected, and then sit there watching them. In other words, put us in their place”
Fred Staples USES Dialed-number recorder
Fred and Tom used DNR phone-monitoring tools to track the hacker's calls.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“So, Fred and Tom were able to use this DNR phone-monitoring tool without any red tape.”
Jason Snitker USES Tymnet
Jason obtained supervisor-level access to Tymnet through a backdoor and accessed its source code.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“It would get you into the lowest, most inner core of Tymnet.”
“he stole Tymnet’s source code, which was proprietary at the time.”
Phrack ASSOCIATED_WITH phrack.org
Jack says Phrack officially moved from phrack.com to phrack.org, where it remains.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 170 Details
“officially moved from phrack.com to phrack.org, which is where it remains today”
Phrack ASSOCIATED_WITH phrack.com
Jack says Phrack moved to phrack.com when websites became popular.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 170 Details
“when websites became popular, Phrack moved to phrack.com”
Phrack ASSOCIATED_WITH phreaking
Skyper says the name Phrack combines “phreaking” and hacking, and describes its origins in manipulating phone lines.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“Phrack stands for phreaking and hacking. It’s a combination of these two words”
Skyper describes HERT as a counterweight to CERT, created because the community felt CERT publications were often technically incorrect.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“the community created the Hackers Emergency Response Team, where the hackers published their version of the vulnerability”
E911 documentation ASSOCIATED_WITH Operation Sundevil
Skyper says the E911 article’s legal significance occurred shortly after Operation Sundevil.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“it happened right after Operation Sundevil with the Secret Service hunting hackers.”
Phrack ASSOCIATED_WITH Paged Out!
TMZ says Paged Out! provided the graphics for Phrack’s fortieth-anniversary edition.
Explicit Confidence 98% · TMZ EP 170 Details
“the wonderful people at — from Paged Out!, which is another magazine as well, to do the graphics for us”
Phrack ASSOCIATED_WITH the scene
Jack says Phrack was born out of and has its roots in the underground hacker scene.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 170 Details
“I think it was this underground scene that Phrack was born out of and has its roots in.”
Legion of Doom ASSOCIATED_WITH Hacker Manifesto
Jack associates the Hacker Manifesto with a member of the Legion of Doom, who he says wrote and first published it on Phrack.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 170 Details
“One of the Legion of Doom members wrote it and published it first on Phrack”
Skyper COMPROMISES phrack.org
Skyper says he took control of phrack.org, which had not been owned by the Phrack staff, in order to revive Phrack.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“So, I decided to steal a domain, which was phrack.org”
internet worm DEVELOPED_BY Robert T. Morris
Skyper says Robert T. Morris wrote the first internet worm.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“The first time was probably by Robert T. Morris, who wrote the very first internet worm”
Jack says TMZ co-founded tmp.out.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 170 Details
“It was TMZ here who co-founded tmp.out.”
internet worm EXPLOITS buffer overflow
Skyper presents the attribution of the first internet use of buffer overflows to Robert T. Morris as probable, so this link is hedged.
Uncertain Confidence 75% · Skyper EP 170 Details
“The first time was probably by Robert T. Morris, who wrote the very first internet worm”