Broast - Botnet Cracker, Exploits, Digital Gangster

Snex walks through inventing an early mass-phishing scheme and a destructive Trojan and a self-replicating worm he ran on IRC. Highlights Include: Learning BASIC at five on a Tandy, then reverse-engineering AOL base files as a teenager Optimizing the legendary punter Genocide's duplicate-removal routine Downgrading AOL 3.0 back to 2.0 to dodge punters Building a custom menu into the AOL client window AOL Secrets, the Lithium Node crew, and sneaking into AOL Live's backstage Inventing an early mass-phishing scheme with a fake "AOL Adult" site A destructive Trojan and a self-replicating SMB worm on IRC Running a victim's AOL bill up to $5,000 with premium MUD games Life after AOL: software engineering, and why AI "vibe coding" won't replace senior engineers

Fibra grew up a Mac kid in a PC-dominated warez scene, tinkering in HyperCard before discovering AOL4FREE and the elite Mac chat crews of the mid-'90s. He walks through the Mac side of AOL hacking, including FDOs, ResEdit, tokens, and "hells" like One Click, and how that curiosity became a career in software and AI. Today he's reverse-engineered AOL itself with Dialtone and a 68k Mac running in your browser at mac.dialtone.live. Highlights Include: Growing up Mac in a PC warez world, starting with HyperCard AOL4FREE and the Mac Chat elite (Ambient, Symbiont, Mystery Vortex, Tang) FDOs, ResEdit, tokens, and Mac "hells" like One Click Reverse-engineering FDO91 and ADA.dll to build Dialtone mac.dialtone.live: a 68k Mac in the browser connected to AOL AI-assisted reverse engineering and the coming wave of prompt-injection security issues Guest: Fibra https://mac.dialtone.live/ https://x.com/SiliconForested https://github.com/iconidentify Survey Link: ⁠https://airtable.com/app7GJNzwDQ8MMINw/shr4yEBKR6AADMOWo⁠

The president of the ARiSE warez group tells us about his experience with BBS, Prodigy, QuantumLink, AOL, and IRC. He also talks about the early days of the warez scene, notable groups at the time, what it is like running a warez group, and his experience carding at age 13.

Pwning AOL with pure FDO. Hacking employee accounts. Downloading AOL files and posting them to aol-files.com. BMB recounts his amazing story

Creator of Millennium, Blizzard, and Code Genie. Despite facing relentless criticism and accusations of code theft, his software gained widespread use. He remains active in coding today, applying lessons from the AOL scene to modern projects like his mobile wagering game, rockshotrush.com. Highlights Include: Origin of the handle "BoFeN" and his other alias "Nova". He was also known as TRiPP. Creation of Code Genie, a tool that automatically generated VB code for AOL interaction via the Windows API Use of a "poser check" in his software to expose imposters claiming to be him Development of a password-stealing executable disguised as a "Punter that Finally Works" Evolution from copying interfaces to building original, widely-used programs like Blizzard Current project: Rock Shop Rush, a mobile game with anti-cheat design rooted in his AOL experiences. rockshotrush.com⁠