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The Legion of Doom (LoD) wasn’t just a “hacker group”, it captured the essence of underground hacking in the 80s/90s. BBSes, phreaking, rival crews, and the crackdowns that changed everything. From those humble beginnings came a legacy that still echoes through modern security culture today. This is part 1 of the LoD/MoD saga. Part 2 is episode 169: “MoD”. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®.
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It also says it’s illegal to exceed authorized access. That part, exceeding authorized access, is one of the most absurdly broad and legally sloppy phrases to ever make its way into federal law.
“He didn’t rob Bell South of the document. He copied the document, and Bell South still had their copy and had no idea that he grabbed a copy of it. So, is it really stealing?”
“the failed switch sent a message, ‘help me’, to a second switch, and the second switch didn’t help. It failed, too, and on to the third, the fourth, the fifth, the fiftieth. A cascade of phone switches were all failing one after another.”
“Fry Guy said that LoD was planning a big attack on a major US holiday, and here’s a major outage on Martin Luther King Junior Day. Was this what the sixteen-year-old scamp predicted? He just got the date wrong?”
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