That was one of those tiny goofy references I miss from Reddit. They put a Pi symbol at the end of every page (on old reddit at least) as a nod to that movie.
When I used to admin an anime shitposting page, I often told people asking about what anime certain characters were from that it’s from Darude no Sandstorm, and people were falling for it. Left that page due to massive burnout, and some of the other admins turning fashy.
To this day, database hacks (top 1000 most popular passwords) and reverse hacks (a few popular passwords on a few thousand accounts) still often result in successful penetrations.
The weakest security link is between chair and keyboard.
It was fun, indeed. People knew so little about the implications and possibilities of connecting two systems, that even if you didn’t hack anything worthwhile, it was easy to feel like a genius simply by war-dialing into another local nerd’s own Commodore 64.
literally ran a basic wardialer in my area code and had guest access to multiple government systems. I felt like matthew broderick would have been so proud.
I never got anywhere but it freaked my parents out they were not proud like i had been expecting at all.
Never actually messed around with anything besides figuring out the no password guest accounts so not really thrilling but it was super easy to get access.
Also when email was first a thing you could just telnet to port 25 on a server and write raw SMTP messages and most servers would just accept them. You would say yes this message is coming from god@heaven.com and it would say sure thing!
That’s still true, I was explaining this at work to the sysadmin that they should be careful and they said our email addresses couldn’t be spoofed, so I demonstrated it with his address. Spooked him a bit.
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