Post #3567383
2026-07-03 17:47 UTC
The next big push I have planned over at the #blog (realhackhistory.org) is to document some of the people and events I see as linked to the #history of #ransomware before what we think of as modern ransomware was a thing.
So much of ransomware history online now is written as corporate marketing.
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social 2026-07-03 17:48
I'm currently writing a #blog about two American #hacker kids who held a U.S. university to ransom via modem in 1980. This was one of the earliest extortion cases involving data or availability of data I had found until I read about people holding tape archives to ransom in the 1970s. I’ll definitely be writing about that too.