@Viss@mastodon.social I love all the little ascii art silliness

@rohad@sciences.social I had to download the trailer, edit it a little for brevity and make this gif because it was just too good

Essentially this guy was infecting people’s systems with a remote access trojan and then using their systems to post bomb threats on 2chan, various people who had been infected got arrested. I’m writing a blog about it all now.

@kagan@wandering.shop oh I like to think the chimp is leading the way

@brhfl@digipres.club bit pricier than what I was expecting but interesting, thanks!

@drakenblackknight@mastodon.online that was one of my first ideas, but I’m wondering about newer options too

@jacqueline@chaos.social @hermlon@yuustan.space oh I’m into it, thanks for the heads up

@laurens Thank you! I came across a lot of articles when looking through a US newspaper archive for news on hackers from 1999 and just kept digging, it is fascinating because it was like a template for conflicts that came after.