Date 1998Founded JaySubmitted By dbSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This was a pretty interesting exploit. When you go to kw: billing to change your pricing plan the token used was “Ra”. At the time the “Ra” token had no viewrule on it for Price Index’s with no billing such as 77(CL) and 0 (OH/Internal). Jay discovered that you could use the Ra token for any Price Index. All you had to.....

Date January 1998Founded Slushie and UaertSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Slushie and Uaert found that the Rw token was not viewruled nor rostered. By sending the Rw token and an arg such as 56-2923 you could pull up the Examine Object Info for the token. EOI is used mainly in conjunction with Rainman and was valuable because it gave information on who created the object, which tokens linked to.....

Date 2000Founded UnknownSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Color and elite profiles are still very popular today, almost every teenager with AOL has “elite” colors in their profile. Color profiles started out as normal HTML codes used in profiles for font formatting and background color, etc. Then, AOL saw the danger these “harmless” profile codes presented when someone came up with the freezing profile code. AOL killed most of the.....

Date Early 2000Founded HypahSubmitted By O0O and HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using the same language code principles he discovered when finding the Aa token exploit, Hypah was able to figure out a way to make 2 character indented screen names. Although, at first Hypah figured out you could hijack AIM screen names doing this. During the account creation proccess the as token, which sets your screen name, did not check.....

Date Early 2000Founded HypahSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using a scanner program Hypah looked through all the various language codes searching for any wierd responses. Using this scanner he was able to find several language codes, one of them 1221, which would send a message using the Aa token to a chat room. The message would come from online host and say. OnlineHost: has sent a message that your.....

Date Summer 2000Founded Cam0Submitted By Cam0 with additional information from O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Updated 2.4.2001 The trick was done similar to an earlier exploit with the Ra token found by Jay. A pricing plan change could be submitted for any Price Index including index 77(CL account) and 0(OH/Internal). Although setting your PI to 0 would not upgrade your account to the viewrule status of a OH/Internal, it would still.....

Date Fall 1997Founded Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This was the first star tool to be discovered since early 1996. It was also the first for the newer 32 bit versions of AOL software designed for Windows 95. It had an Atomic Debugger integrated into master.aol. This was far stabler than the stand alone debugger being used for AOL 2.5/3.0 16 bit. It was found in the MMDev file.....

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 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.....

ACI management’s late fall 1998 announcement on procedure for reporting compromised CL accounts is a prime illustration of AOL’s painfully slow reflex in dealing with serious ongoing problems. In fact, they move so slowly sometimes we wonder if they are still breathing. Their tendency to shelve any progress on serious issues until so much damage has been done and there’s so much negative publicity that.....