Not quite CS, but I was part of a hacking scene that used to exploit C&C Red Alert 2, YR via Teds Relay and discovering the IRC lobby password being "supersecret".
Fun times were had as a script kiddie spawning the president and placing it in an IFV and just go demolishing the other players base with this fancy laser. But hey, I was 15 at the time.
Habbo Hotel too, being part of a "mafia" with a habbo multi hacker app; the flicker glitch that made your character blink causing lag. That and placing furni in rooms in the walls using ArtMoney filters. I discovered perl while messing with MSN bots; I miss those ages.
Others include NeoPets and Flash game hacking including RCEing the Money Tree claiming the loot before anyone else. Then I discovered IRC and Rx/PHAT botnets infecting via Windows 98 DCOM/NetSend exploits.
Tried it at school and next thing two of the colleges rejected my application, parents called and banished from using any computer in secondary school for the next two years. The college I went to was low-level polytechnic but the couple of the lecturers I had noticed my skill and homed me on a different path than being a BlackHat.
My moral compass kicked in and even now it's an itch I really want to scratch nowadays but PenTesting/CyberSecurity are too "prestigious" that the only chance is to fall in to.
So I've been an Sys/Unix Admin for past 18 years watching the world burn. I was using Linux (Debian/Slackware) when the kernel was at version 2 and Xorg was XFree86.
Luckily FreeBSD 8 gave me some fresh air after some IRC user rooted my box hosting my IRCd (on 56k) and did the honours of replacing Debian Linux with Debian kBSD. They left me a PM on IRC telling me to stay out of trouble and I've been using FBSD ever since. I'm 36. Never saw them again.
"Hey kid, stay out of trouble. btw your irc is down".
I will always remember that message waking up to a login MoTD with new root/password of some strange OS I had never used. I was angry that I lost my five botnet (T2 army) but I am grateful nowadays for it saving grace.
Not until many years later, I couldn't work out how they did until I came across of a backup of my early PHP3 script that allowed you to issue commands to the host. Apache was running as root and this was hosted in a public web directory (doy).
> Fun times were had as a script kiddie spawning the president and placing it in an IFV and just go demolishing the other players base with this fancy laser.
Oh. That's what happened to me. I always wondered where those lasers came from. I thought it was just a weird custom map.
Fun times were had as a script kiddie spawning the president and placing it in an IFV and just go demolishing the other players base with this fancy laser. But hey, I was 15 at the time.
Habbo Hotel too, being part of a "mafia" with a habbo multi hacker app; the flicker glitch that made your character blink causing lag. That and placing furni in rooms in the walls using ArtMoney filters. I discovered perl while messing with MSN bots; I miss those ages.
Others include NeoPets and Flash game hacking including RCEing the Money Tree claiming the loot before anyone else. Then I discovered IRC and Rx/PHAT botnets infecting via Windows 98 DCOM/NetSend exploits.
Tried it at school and next thing two of the colleges rejected my application, parents called and banished from using any computer in secondary school for the next two years. The college I went to was low-level polytechnic but the couple of the lecturers I had noticed my skill and homed me on a different path than being a BlackHat.
My moral compass kicked in and even now it's an itch I really want to scratch nowadays but PenTesting/CyberSecurity are too "prestigious" that the only chance is to fall in to.
So I've been an Sys/Unix Admin for past 18 years watching the world burn. I was using Linux (Debian/Slackware) when the kernel was at version 2 and Xorg was XFree86.
Luckily FreeBSD 8 gave me some fresh air after some IRC user rooted my box hosting my IRCd (on 56k) and did the honours of replacing Debian Linux with Debian kBSD. They left me a PM on IRC telling me to stay out of trouble and I've been using FBSD ever since. I'm 36. Never saw them again.
"Hey kid, stay out of trouble. btw your irc is down".
I will always remember that message waking up to a login MoTD with new root/password of some strange OS I had never used. I was angry that I lost my five botnet (T2 army) but I am grateful nowadays for it saving grace.
Not until many years later, I couldn't work out how they did until I came across of a backup of my early PHP3 script that allowed you to issue commands to the host. Apache was running as root and this was hosted in a public web directory (doy).