AOL/AIM Exploits

Date Feb. 1997Founded KroK of Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive If you have board tools to one classic message board on AOL. You are able to use the ^J and ^K tokens to hide/unhide any post on any board on AOL. Even boards where you aren’t supposed to have tools to. The only limitation is that your account must have some sort of tools on a classic style.....

Date 1997Founded HypahSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The “lib trick” was where you’d find the most recent mF token, then upload a file and through a very little scanning, could access that file with the token. It still works, but when it was new, you could access it by URL as well. AOL actually fixed the URL access because I was sending links to their german porn to american.....

Date 1996Founded UnknownSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Typing ]D or ]F on Mac AOL 2.7 or older would unlock null chars, including the return char, allowing you to fake others’ chat and what not. AOL slowly fixed this; as time passed, less and less manips worked. At the end, you could only send (return)l and (return)t right before they fixed it.

Date 1996Founded VariousSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive It started with early versions of AOL (2.5 through late 4.0). AOLers were often punted offline via constant strings of gibberish HTML or other text sent to victims in IM’s. With 2.5 and 3.0, the text didn’t matter as much as how fast your prog could send IMs. Most computers at the time 2.5/3.0 was around were Pentium I’s or lower and.....

Date Late 1996Founded UnknownSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive There were various versions of VPD but one of the first for the 16-bit AOL 3.0 client was v.50a. 50a supported the ability to browse any AOL form and look at the FDO scripting of it. Now this was possible using Atomic Debugger, however, Atomic Debugger’s atom trace feature was very buggy and the program usually crashed when opening large forms......

Date 1996Founded Unknown, Hexed and Released by Mad MiserySubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This was a huge discovery for PC AOLers. Up until this point PCers were unable to do the things Mac hax0rs were able to with their version of the Star Tool, called Utilities. The Star tool for 16 bit AOL clients came with a limited Atomic Debugger and an invoker for f1 tokens. Within weeks of.....

Date 1995-96Founded UnknownSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using any internal account it was possible to generate OH/Invoice/Internal certs as long as you had a valid promo code for those account types. There was also a separate tool which allowed a cert to be rearmed. This resulted in hundreds of unauthorized OH accounts and many invoice and internal accounts being created. AOL patched this sometime in 1996 and now you.....

Date 2000 Founded Hypah Submitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The indent trick originally allowed 12 char SNs on AOL 2.7 and presumably would have let 18 char names be made on new AOL’s. However, AOL started double-checking the length in June-July 2000 which is really gay because it prevented many AIMs from being converted on 2.7 as well as longer SNs being made.