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@realhackhistory@chaos.social
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture.

If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you.

Media by humans, for humans.

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Joined November 05, 2022
realhackhistory on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/realhackhistory
realhackhistory on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/@realhackhistory
realhackhistory vimeo mirror:
https://vimeo.com/realhackhistory
realhackhistory Wordpress blog:
https://realhackhistory.org/

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 23, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
About time for me to remind everyone that: a) there was a TV series version of The Net in 1998 and b) Tim goddamn Curry played the voice of a mysterious hacker called Sorcerer in it
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 18, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
I finally got a chance to see the Joybubbles documentary. I was honestly surprised by how emotional it made me, if you’ve been involved in phreaking or hacking I think you’ll see a little of yourself in Joe. It centers his story and his struggles and his successes, it isn’t a true crime exposé.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 16, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
“The ransom attempt failed, because the bank had in its files duplicates of the stolen tapes.” Backups have been foiling ransomware operators since the 70s lol
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 16, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
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From “Computer Capers: Tales of Electronic Thievery, Embezzlement, and Fraud” by Thomas Whiteside, published in 1978.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 14, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Detroit Free Press - Jun 20th, 1975 I'm fascinated by the idea of #ransomware before ransomware, data extortion that impacted availability or confidentiality of data before the advent of malicious software for encryption. Stumbled across this 70s news story about "tapenapping" of backup tapes.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
Can tell milw0rm is a blast from the past for a lot of people seeing these posts. Suddenly it is 1998 again, I'm on IRC and usenet and drinking warm jolt cola while my parents yell at me that they need to make a phone call so I need to get offline.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
Internet Archive upload so that it will be properly OCR'd https://archive.org/details/milw0rm-final
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
Also, if you did enough internet crimes back in the day the FBI would archive your website in black and white for you and stick it in a folder in a big filing cabinet somewhere.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
I'm going to get this FOIA release up on Internet Archive so it is properly searchable.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
If you remember milw0rm for reasons other than being around the scene at the time you may remember them for a hack of an Indian nuclear research facility that gets attributed to Pakistani hackers for some reason even though milw0rm did literal interviews about doing it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-has-scary-nuke-hack/
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
In response to a #FOIA request from me the #FBI have released records relating to late 90s #hacker group milw0rm. Additional records not included in this Vault release were located by the FBI and I have requested these be processed for potential release as well. https://vault.fbi.gov/milw0rm/milw0rm-final/view
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 03, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
Finally I am going to write about Alexey Ivanov & his partner in crime Vasiliy Gorshkov who were breaching U.S. companies from Russia in 2000, offering "consulting" to victims & threatening to delete data from hacked computers and leak sensitive records. This feels like proto-ransomware methodology.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 03, 2026
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
In parallel I am writing the most complete account of the life, career & crimes of Dr Joseph Popp Jnr, the man everyone agrees created & executed the first ever software based ransomware attack in 1989. I've found the contradictory and missing details of his life frustrating & am going to fix that.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 03, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @realhackhistory@chaos.social
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.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jul 03, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
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@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Jun 22, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Does anyone know of a source for 60 Minutes broadcasts from the 70s, like an archive or something? Would love to see this segment "Dial E For Embezzlement" which aired back in 1976.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · May 13, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

oh no who let Microsoft name weed strains oh dear

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Apr 22, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @liaizon@social.wake.st
@liaizon very 2000s hackercore but I think that’s a regional thing. A lot of Middle Eastern hackers have what I’d consider antiquated handles for whatever reason.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Apr 22, 2026
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @liaizon@social.wake.st
@liaizon
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Apr 22, 2026
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @liaizon@social.wake.st
@liaizon they are still talking about Bluesky on their Telegram too, no end in sight.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 20, 2026
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Big tech companies have hoarded all of our data for years now and are entrusting it all to people who need chatbots to tell them how to do their jobs. This situation is an absolute disaster.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 19, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Man, kid me would have gone absolutely nuts for this.
https://youtu.be/17jJu1geea8

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 18, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

I can FOIA, request police records but have zero experience with requesting court docs.

Looking to find a specific set of court records from the United States District Court of Northern District of Ohio and then request those docs. Link on the website is broken:
https://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/court-records

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 18, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Banksy might produce the equivalent of Hallmark greeting cards in terms of subversive art but people should still leave him the fuck alone and let people who want some anonymity in this world of horrible surveillance to have that anonymity, especially given that he isn’t hurting anyone.

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 17, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

“Data is the new oil” is about twenty years old now as a quote, but it feels like with generative AI we are getting to the real fossil fuel analogy.

Not just that the data is valuable like oil, but that corporations will seize and refine it in ways that are damaging to the world and our health.

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 12, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

If you guessed “cybercrime law” put in place by an autocratic regime then you win.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 11, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Some crazy details here:

“convincing the hacker that they actually were the FBI, in part by having the hacker join a video chat where they flashed their law enforcement credentials in front ⁠of a web ​camera”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-documents-show-2026-03-11/

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 09, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Things that I won’t use, even to mock or joke about it:

* Generative AI
* Incel slang
* MAGA or nazi imagery

I think this is a reasonable boundary.

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Mar 01, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social

Is “Sneakers or Hackers” the “Elvis or the Beatles” of the #hacker world?

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Feb 15, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Boosted by Канделябр Советский, Удобный. @mansalia@shitpost.poridge.club
I wonder what it means for the future that automated moderation, the online panopticon & Silicon Valley puritanism has shaped a generation of kids who are now afraid to type “sex”, “killed”, “death” or “rape” online without substituting numbers for letters or resorting to language like “unalive”
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Feb 02, 2026
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Dec 17, 2025
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

chaos.social
Replying to @jtompkinsx@hachyderm.io
@jtompkinsx@hachyderm.io @mausmalone@mastodon.social I did not know that, I need to get the novelization!
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Dec 17, 2025
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@SadMonk@mstdn.social 🎶 beeedle doo.. BOMP BOMP 🎵
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Dec 17, 2025
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

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Boosted by After-Rh 🫶🥰 @newmodel@shin.mugicha.club
You will be visited by three spirits.
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Oct 29, 2025
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

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These Arch Linux people are getting out of control.

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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · May 11, 2025
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

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@ocean @hjoest @christianschwaegerl came here to say this
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[realhackhistory@home]# @realhackhistory@chaos.social · Aug 20, 2023
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social

Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.

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@ccc@chaos.social @coldnorth@chaos.social thank you for the hospitality, the music and the tesla excitement!
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