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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
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Guest: Snex
Host: Steve Stonebraker
Audio Editor: Sam Fox ([email protected])
CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold.
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