realhackhistory

There was a previous early realhackhistory blog on how print media illustrations in the 1980s portrayed hackers, this blog will do the same but for the 1970s.

Introduction When you look at the history of “cyberwar”, both in reality and as a concept, there are two big inflection points.

Everyone loved the first one of these, so a follow up was inevitable.

Introduction In May of 1998 unrest broke out on University campuses in the Indonesia city of Medan, protests had been ongoing but the death of a student that was blamed on security forces added fuel to the fire.

Who Am I?

Introduction The “cyberwar” between Pakistani and Indian hacktivists and hackers is, I am certain, the longest running online conflict of its kind.

FOIA is a very hot topic at the time of writing, given political events in the United States.

A Xerox Corp Sigma 9, similar to the one at Oberlin College, source: Wikipedia People say there’s nothing new on Earth and certainly when it comes to hacking and hacktivism someone did whatever it is you are thinking of before you think anyone did.

“Catching Computer Crooks”, Popular Mechanics, 1984 The image at the top of this blog is, from what I can find, the first stock image photo of a hacker in a ski mask that ever appeared in print, carrying on a visual association between hackers and bank ro…

Susan Thunder shows Geraldo Rivera how to access computers via modem in 1982 I’ve clipped interviews with hackers from the 1980’s from longer TV news or documentary segments, you can find the longer videos linked below as well.