juvenile detention Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:52:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Busted at the Safeway for phone phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:48:52 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5806 Software developer, author, and blogger Jeff Atwood wrote his confessions of the 1980s this week. As a teenager and not-quite-adult, he was a phone phreaker. More of this went on than anyone wants to admit. Rob O’Hara has podcasted about

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/feed/ 1 5806 Meet the new malcontents. Same as the old malcontents. https://dfarq.homeip.net/meet-the-new-malcontents-same-as-the-old-malcontents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-the-new-malcontents-same-as-the-old-malcontents Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:19:13 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3681 The Guardian presents an interesting perspective, that hacktivists are bored teenagers driven by their hatred of government policy. If that’s the case, it’s nothing new. They’re just able to make bigger messes today than their counterparts could 20 years ago.

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]]> 3681 Secret Service BBS raids from the other perspective https://dfarq.homeip.net/secret-service-bbs-raids-from-the-other-perspective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secret-service-bbs-raids-from-the-other-perspective Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:24:44 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1760 I've written in the past about the Feds busting people using BBSs for nefarious purposes in the early 1990s. But the only stories I've ever heard were from the perspective of the people who got busted, often second or third hand.

Here's a story from the side of someone who helped the Secret Service for three days in the 1980s.

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]]> 1760 Myspace and blogging isn’t inherently bad https://dfarq.homeip.net/myspace-and-blogging-isnt-inherently-bad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myspace-and-blogging-isnt-inherently-bad https://dfarq.homeip.net/myspace-and-blogging-isnt-inherently-bad/#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:02:07 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1545 I see some schools are blocking access to Myspace and other blogging tools. The blogosphere, some people seem to believe, is just a bunch of people looking to exploit teenaged girls.

Sure, blogs can be dangerous. So can cars and jobs. I think the Myspace phenomenon exposes weaknesses in upbringing more than anything else.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/myspace-and-blogging-isnt-inherently-bad/feed/ 1 1545 We can’t give hackers anything else to work with https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2 https://dfarq.homeip.net/we-cant-give-hackers-anything-else-to-work-with-2/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:13:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1137 Thanks to David Huff for pointing this link out to me (the good Dr. Keyboard also passed it along). Steve Gibson was hacked last month, and he wasn't very happy about it. So he set out to learn everything he could about l337 h4x0rs (elite hacker wannabes--script kiddies). What he found out bothers me a lot.

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