Adrian Lamo and FBI Cyber Squad computer scientist Russell Handorf
‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking
No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release and $128,557 in restitution for conspiring to damage a protected.....
Kryogeniks Hacker Who Took Comcast Offline Pleads Guilty to Crime
Christopher Allen Lewis, the hacker from a telephone hacking group called Kryogeniks, has pleaded guilty for taking Comcast's web site offline in May of 2008. Lewis is facing a charge that could land him in prison for five years and a $250,000 fine after his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to intentionally damage a protected computer system. The case is being tried in.....
Flashback to 1995
Flashback to 1995: AOL Proggies By Marco on April 19, 2004 Inspired by a discussion on the Something Awful Forums, I remembered the time I spent using AOL in middle school. There were these programs ("proggies") that would hook into the AOL software and allow you to do special things, like easily type using color-faded text or extended ASCII characters. I had one of these.....
Editing Sign On List
Here you will learn how to modify the screen names on your sign on list. There are a few reasons why you might do this: Add frequently used guest accounts/phish to your sign on list! Modify the parental controls on guest accounts/phish. Switch to other screen names on guest accounts/phish. Download and install UltraEdit32 hex editor that you will use to modify the AOL.....
AOL IP Addresses
IP stands for Internet Protocol address. Internet Sites and people who connect online have an IP address. An Internet Protocol address indentifies your online connection. There are two types of IP addresses: dynamic and static. Static IP addresses are alyways the same. People who do not sign on through the phone line and are alyways connected have a static IP. If you connect via a.....
AOL Roll Dice
Many people know the chat command: //roll But not many people know how to specify the number of dice and number of sides: //roll-dice##-sides### The amount of dice can be any whole number from one through fifteen. The amount of sides can be any whole number from one through 999. AOL will randomly pick a number fitting each of these paramaters and display them.....
AOL TOS Violations
TOS E-mail 1 Since this letter has been sent to each of the sub-screen names on your account, you may already have read it. If so, please disregard this copy. America Online has a Terms of Service agreement which provides community guidelines for online conduct. This letter is to inform you that we received a report regarding a violation of those guidelines. In keeping with.....
America Online Steps Up Spam Fight By Launching Litigation Offensive Against Spammers
Company Sues Spammers in Series of Lawsuits Spurred by Member-Reported Junk Email
AOL Alleges Defendants Named in Lawsuits Are Responsible for Sending AOL Members One Billion Spam Emails, Resulting in Over 8 Million Member Spam Complaints
Dulles, VA – April 15, 2003 – America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), as part of its ongoing, comprehensive battle against spammers, today announced a sweeping series of lawsuits against individuals and companies that it alleges have repeatedly sent members high volumes of unwanted junk emails using a variety of evasive means to circumvent AOL’s spam filters.
AOL is filing five separate lawsuits against over a dozen companies and individuals, who the Company alleges are together responsible for sending an estimated one billion spam emails to AOL members and generating over 8 million individual spam complaints from members. The latest lawsuits filed by AOL are the first to leverage the complaints received by AOL from its members who are using the popular “Report Spam” button in AOL 8.0.
The defendants named in these lawsuits are alleged to have sent a variety of offensive and unwanted spam emails including: pornography; male organ growth/enlargement products; mortgage and home refinancing offers; college degrees; steroids; cable TV descrambler products; and software products. The kinds of spammers and the type of spamming named in these lawsuits are exactly representative of what AOL members face on a daily basis.
The methods alleged to have been used by the named defendants in these cases to send spam to AOL members include many of the egregious and fraudulent methods used today by spammers, such as: falsification of email addresses; purposefully and systematically evading spam filters set up by AOL and its members; and pursuing other means of spamming members that are prohibited by AOL’s published “Unsolicited Bulk Email Policy” (see www.aol.com).
Because AOL’s proprietary email network is located in Virginia, these lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.
Sm0ke leaving the ao scene
Author : Optimo Sm0ke leaving the ao scene Currently i had the chance to speak with sm0ke. He stated that he would be leaving the ao scene after his program known as completion was done. Well completion is done and sm0ke is saying his goodbyes to aol. Sm0ke has contributed alot to the ao programming scene and will be missed by many. His up and.....
GUIDANCE FOR OVERHEAD AND STAFF USERS [Doc]
FEDERATION – GUIDANCE FOR OVERHEAD AND STAFF USERS
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July 23 1995
Introduction
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Hi! – and welcome to Federation. This document is intended to provide
guidance for overhead and staff account holders on AOL who are playing
Federation (referred to as OHs in this document).
As an OH playing Federation you are in a privileged position, because
we do not get paid for your usage. Because you are in a position of
privilege, you have obligations to AOL and the Federation team that paying
players do not.
At the moment, we allow any OH to play Fed, but bear in mind that if your
presence in Fed starts to cause us problems then you will be locked out of
the game, and if we get too many problems with OHs we will simply stop all
OHs from playing.