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O͖̺͊̕͡ͅfficial bluesky for realhackhistory YouTube channel & blog, skeeting the #history of phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as portrayal of hackers in media. No AI used. Hobbyist #skystorian.
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Hi new followers 👋, welcome, this account is a weird mix of tangents on #hacking #history and current events involving large, or particularly interesting, hacks, how the media looks at hacking and just what is going on with hacktivism.
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Mr. Soul of suspected Iranian APT linked hacktivist group Cyb3rAv3ngers resurfaces.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Time to check back in on Cambodian and Thai hacktivists then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
They are making a TV show about angry opinionated internet man?
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I too have read a book and would like everyone to know it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Do we get the next iteration of Anonymous too I wonder, or has the ship sailed on internationalist ideological hacktivism as a movement.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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maxell floppy disks, print ad (1996) archive.org/details/Mac-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Yeah his family is there - sent away due to the war. He risked a brief trip there it once and it was fine. Then all went wrong for him on second exit. All
in the pod!
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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"Paranoia is a constant friend of hackers." In an exclusive interview for our podcast, we went inside a Colorado prison to interview former Most Wanted cyber criminal 'Tank'. Vyacheslav Penchukov, climbed to the top of the Russian-speaking cyber-underworld.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tank interview: A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC
One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It is so weird looking at tweets from before the various changes to character counts, they are all so short and the stupid little grok symbol tacked on looks extra incongruous.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Back to working on this blog about 1980s anti-hacker hacktivist John Maxfield.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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@bsky.realhackhistory.org found a couple new to me hacker movies while sailing the high seas: www.imdb.com/title/tt3353...
Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker (2024) ⭐ 5.7 | Action
1h 56m
www.imdb.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Social media in 2026 if GenAI isn't reigned in.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Hungary's main opposition party has suffered a major security breach. Hackers leaked more than 200,000 user records from the TISZA party's mobile app.

hungarytoday.hu/yet-another-...

TISZA leader Péter Magyar blamed the hack on Russian hackers.

www.facebook.com/peter.magyar...
Yet Another TISZA Party Data Breach Scandal: Blame the Russians and Orbán
Main opposition party leader Péter Magyar with his supporters The TISZA party, led by Péter Magyar, is embroiled in a new data scandal after sensitive data from 200,000 users of the TISZA Világ app wa...
hungarytoday.hu
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Just arrived: Advance copies of the first revised edition of Cult of the Dead Cow.
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Guardian Angels are a gang of reactionary cop wannabe bullies and thugs and it boggles my mind that anyone thinks of them otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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from a version of the 1980s where microcomputers went a little harder
#robotart
November 26, 2024 at 7:32 PM
This Silicon Valley acid casualty wants to destroy America to save America.

“So when people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there, but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.”
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
He also had strong opinions about people's
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Not only that, when six people died, Tylenol knew it wasn’t the cause of the poisonings and STILL pulled 30 million bottles off the market, because it mattered to them what their customers thought.

Public trust doesn’t matter to OpenAI, because the users of ChatGPT aren’t their customers.
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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These illustrations from a "Boy's Life" magazine article on #hackers from March of 1993.
#hacker #hacking #history
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Adding "be able to fight off a team of scrappy grocery store clerks" to my opsec advice for aspiring hackers.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM