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Charles Ford posted:I remember MP3 FTP servers, where you'd find the link, and then the login banner would say "to find the password, go to this weird porn URL, follow these esoteric instructions, click the furry wizard and stroke the ancient icon, then on the fifth page in the seventh paragraph the password is the twenty fourth word". i remember following these and the word was never actually the stupid password
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When I was 10ish my computer got taken over by one of those fake virus scan ransom wares that locked down your computer. I was tech savvy enough to just go to my mom's clunker and look up how to delete it with the cmd interface.
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pencilhands posted:that pink "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" thing that spammed your screen and made everything unusable until you restarted is my biggest nostalgia trip for the early 00s internet Ah hahahahahaha hahahahahaaaaaa
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one of my favorite chaos memories is of the church powerpoint machine throwing 20 foot tall gapers on the sanctuary wall one morning thanks to a bit of adware back in the day and yeah, this poo poo never went away, it's loving everywhere and still prevalent as poo poo. gently caress javascript. I love it. 
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emSparkly posted:But it's not fun anymore. I don't even know if they're still doing scary ransomware these days. It's all just browser hijacks and bitcoin miners now. The ransomware stuff is all corporate now.
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Oct 1, 2023 06:49
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I do remember having to physically disconnect the PC from the internet and get a boot disk with an antivirus made at a friend's house at least once in my life, CD burners made it so much easier to have a recovery path available. By the time I had a rescue USB stick I never actually needed it.
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Oct 1, 2023 07:58
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when i was a little dork in grade 6 i was loving around on the Apple IIe computers in our Computer Annex (lol) and figured out that if you PEEKed from a random memory address and POKEd that peek into another random memory address you could make the computer crash in different ways. i was too chickenshit to actually save the, what, four line basic program to diskette but i did write it down on a piece of paper that i stuck in a mad magazine in my locker and yet next week the little jerks who stole the mad magazine from my locker that i'd lost the lock for had the temerity to narc on me, when they entered the program into their classroom computer and it had crashed and they both panicked nothing happened though because i turned into a weeping ball of snot almost immediately and everybody involved dropped the issue i have at least two of those Apple IIes sitting in a old ford econoline on my parents property, time is a flat circle
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Oct 1, 2023 08:14
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Cell phone malware have been wrecking people’s savings in many parts of the world. You sideload a dodgy Android app, it intercepts your emails and texts and your bank account gets emptied out while you sleep. Viruses are still a big deal.
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Oct 1, 2023 08:50
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why is it all the security companies are named something aggressive? Cloud strike falcon? I feel as though we're one IPO away from the new IDS solution, "Dick Justice"
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Oct 1, 2023 09:04
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Personaly I blame Republicans: ever since the Bush administration took massive liberties naming military and political operations every private company having anything to do with security just stopped entirely with sensible names.
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Oct 1, 2023 09:14
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*linuxiouslly* no...
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Gentleman… I'm here 'cause I'm hosed. I have a loving poo poo problem. Somebody… jump in my computer server. And take the information out.
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Oct 2, 2023 01:31
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Lpzie posted:*linuxiouslly* no...
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Action Jacktion posted:But there were definitely people who thought the mouse was a foot pedal, right?
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Oct 2, 2023 02:15
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INTERNAL STACK OVERFLOW SYSTEM HALTED
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back when i was a kid i acquired a piece of poo poo 286 from someone so I could play on BBS' and MUDs online, I don't even remember how I got it It had this weird bug where it would just gradually eat up / lose the remaining disk space over time. I got around it by filling it up as much as I could and deleting stuff when I needed more space because it wouldn't eat the disk space that was occupied I realize this doesn't make any loving sense and I can't explain it any better than that, but it wasn't like it was producing data and filling up the drive on its own, the max disk space would actually get smaller
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I remember getting one that would 1) disable showing file extensions in file explorer and check at a regular interval if the user re-enabled them, and 2) replace random files on the disk with a copy of itself while being sure to use the original file’s name AND icon. At this point I forget what other kind of malicious behavior it had that clued me in to it’s existence but it was a bitch trying to get rid of it. This was the only virus I ever got personally that I had to wipe my disk over.
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lol I saw a USB stick in a parking lot this morning and I was like "Not today Satan!"
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Oct 2, 2023 02:53
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Anyone ever open an email and get bearded?
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Oct 2, 2023 03:31
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I remember a Diablo 2 addicted buddy had someone do something that made him lose control & he watched as they dragged all his best items out of his inventory. What kind of trick did he fall for?
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Oct 2, 2023 04:08
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Sounds like either a key macro or a remote-control software of some kind. Quite devilish.
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Vegetable posted:Cell phone malware have been wrecking people’s savings in many parts of the world. You sideload a dodgy Android app, it intercepts your emails and texts and your bank account gets emptied out while you sleep. Viruses are still a big deal. 
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Vegetable posted:Cell phone malware have been wrecking people’s savings in many parts of the world. You sideload a dodgy Android app, it intercepts your emails and texts and your bank account gets emptied out while you sleep. Viruses are still a big deal. This is also a huge scam on selling sites like OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace. You post something, they say "ok I'll take it can I call/text u", get your phone number, and then configure it on a VOIP provider platform and intercept your 2FA. Also my grandfather handed me his Commodore 64 and stacks and stacks of floppy disks with all the crap he pirated from BBSs over the years. It was a computer odyssey figuring out if it was a bad disk or a virus. I've been really fortunate that I've never had to really do much to keep my own machine clean and intact. However I got so sick of flattening & restoring my cousin's machines that I imaged them and taught my aunt how to restore from a USB drive she kept in her closet. This was a decade ago, but sometimes their laptops would be reinfected in hours 
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It’s insane how getting old just happens. Almost everything else in life you can fight against but even people like musk and bezos look pathetic against it. You’re just hosed
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Overdog posted:I ran the full version Mac OS mountain lion on a computer with no RAM at all in a 256k processor cache stage for 2 days with a functioning internet browser until it got cold enough to physically freeze. what
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redshirt posted:lol I saw a USB stick in a parking lot this morning and I was like "Not today Satan!" This specific article is very old but I know they keep doing this test and it keeps catching people: https://thenextweb.com/news/us-govt-plant-usb-sticks-in-security-study-60-of-subjects-take-the-bait I had a buddy who worked in a secure lab on an AF base that let someone go for failing this test TWICE. just found a usb stick randomly and said 'well better put this onto my government pc to see what it is!'
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How the gently caress do you repeat that mistake, you'd think after getting told off all suspicious usb sticks would get inserted in to is the toilet.
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