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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.

My cat Phaedra died today, she had been battling chronic illness for too much of her short life and today was time for her fight to end.

Keep your loved ones close to you regardless of species, we never realize how brief life can be until it is too late.

nostr:npub1eur37kwy3unsmtkrxd6xmtg9j507qjxjcdaf270syyxwsfal56jq7ejjvl if you will be there find me and hit me up! I got a tshirt made with my pfp on it but I should have gotten multiple so I have clean spares lol

I had never seen this #hacking #history story referenced before and cannot find any other documents that reference it, #France supposedly hiring #hackers in 1983 to hack Swiss banks to catch French tax dodgers, as reported in Popular Mechanics June 1984.

"According to the market research firm Sensor Tower, as CNN first reported and later seen by Gizmodo, the daily active user count on Threads is down 82% from when the app launched July 5 to July 31."

My Kevin Mitnick #FBI #FOIA is in progress. Feels a little ghoulish but this is also our #hacking #history, everyone deserves to have their full story told.