Sending Blank IMs
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Date 1997Founded UnknownSubmitted By CJSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This ‘exploit’ allowed users to send completely blank IMs, which also removed the screen name of the sender from the IM window. This trick was used by various punter programs so that you could not copy/paste any screen name from the IM window to make a report to CAT. To do this, you needed to send an IM with just (A HREF).....

Mac Screen Name Cloning
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Date 1997Founded Tang, LyriX and othersSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive In 1997, people in macfilez saw Tang, LyriX, and others get 23 copies of the exact same screen name in one room. Quite simple, really…you would connect, block the SC token, enter a room, then disconnect and repeat. Each connection added the name to the room. AOL fixed this in private rooms first, then later, conference rooms. Then, entering.....

PC Client Cloning
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Date 1997 it could be done using AOL 3.0 32-bit and later using 4.0 and 2.5Founded VariousSubmitted By TauSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Cloning, as it has come to be called, is the process of signing onto more than one screen name simultaneously on the same computer. There are however two restrictions that you should be aware about before beginning. First, you have to use whatever America Online version you are currently.....

Lance releases Red Menace Links FDO file
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Date Summer 1997Founded Lance of Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Lance created the first major PC FDO file. Done completely in FDO it did not feature any major programming tricks but it was the first FDO file to feature links, etc in listboxes and buttons programmed using FDO.

Accessing An Uploaded File Without It Being Released
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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.....

Mac Chat Manipulation
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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.

AOL IM Punting
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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.....

VPD Version 50a
VPD Version 50a
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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......

Star Tool AOL 2.5/3.0 16 bit
Star Tool AOL 2.5/3.0 16 bit
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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.....

Generating OH/Invoice/Internal Certs
Generating OH/Invoice/Internal Certs
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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.....

Creating 12 Char SNs on AOL 2.7 and Possibly 18 Chars
Creating 12 Char SNs on AOL 2.7 and Possibly 18 Chars
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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.
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