BBS The Documentary: Episode 6 of 8: HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Carding)
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- Episode 6 of 8 of the BBS Documentary, a mini-series by Jason Scott.
This episode provides an insight into the BBS Underground - the idea and thoughts behind hacking, as well as many of the related activities: phone exploration (phreaking), software protection removal (cracking), and the phenomenon of "Anarchy" as it applied in the BBS textfiles of the 1980s.
BBS Documentary Information:
Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer...there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did.
They called these places "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBSes. And their collections of messages, rants, thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online.
When the Internet grew in popularity in the early 1990s, the world of the BBS faded, changed, and became a part of the present networked world.. but it wasn't the same.
In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would.
Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, "BBS: The Documentary", a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history.
Baud introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world.
Sysops and Users introduces the stories of the people who used BBSes, and lets them tell their own stories of living in this new world.
Make it Pay covers the BBS industry that rose in the 1980's and grew to fantastic heights before disappearing almost overnight.
Fidonet covers the largest volunteer-run computer network in history, and the people who made it a joy and a political nightmare.
Artscene tells the rarely-heard history of the ANSI Art Scene that thrived in the BBS world, where art was currency and battles waged over nothing more than pure talent.
HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking) hears from some of the users of "underground" BBSes and their unique view of the world of information and computers.
Compression tells the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s and how a fight that broke out over something as simple as data compression resulted in waylaid lives and lost opportunity.
No Carrier wishes a fond farewell to the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet.
Ideal as either a teaching tool or a reminder of your own memories, the BBS Documentary Collection brings back this nearly-forgotten time in a way that will tell the story... one caller at a time.
My uncle's best friend got raided by the actual FBI in the late 80s/early 90s and hauled off for questioning for an entire day. He broke into some government system, but neither of them ever figured out what it actually was and the questioning was apparently very vague to figure out what they knew. It was just an innocuous dial-in, but apparently was a front end for something big enough that they almost charged him. My uncle likes to tell that story a lot because he never pulled off any big hacks so he lives vicariously through that story, lol.
I was into phreaking in the early to mid 80s. Long distance phone companies were helpless. Metro and MCI were easy because they only had 5 & 6 digits. Sprint was the most difficult because they had 8 digits. One night of running the dialer would yield 50+ codes.
One time I was trying to use a code to place a call then a person answered instead of the computer that I was calling. I used a pay phone to place a call using same code then he answered again. It was someone in their security department that was trying to trick me into giving him my contact information. He wanted to take a message for the person I was calling(a computer). I knew it wasn't the guy running the BBS because the man was old and we were all high school age. There was no such thing as caller id and they couldn't trace calls. I called him out on it then gave him so much crap that he hung up on me! "If you could trace this call the you wouldn't be asking for my phone number! You can't do anything!"
Thank you National City Bank. Your PBX let me call all over the country for a good 2 years about 1994.
There was a produce company in Georgia that had an 800 number we would use to relay calls. Get them to hang up then wait long enough and you're get a dial tone out. One day we called and the gig was up. She refused to hang up. We called from a phone booth at a gas station next to our school then left the receiver hanging. We went back after class and she was still there. "I'm not going to hang up!" It still makes me laugh.
@@fluxcapacitor1621 lmao. Phreakin awesome!
Wow man brought me back to my tweens in the 90s. Didn't pay for long distance for years bc of the phreaking phone box I learned to built of a l33t bbs. Lol
The movie “Wargames” kinda explains what, to a large extend, hacking was about back then.
We're a long ways past dumpster diving for esns
I'm curious if Sinbad cracked any for Amiga 500. The name feels familiar.
There was a second wave of this stuff at the turn of the century, as the internet exploded and edgelord teens all gravitated towards "those sites that tell you how to make bombs" the news was freaking out over. I was a small part of it myself, though (mostly!) had more sense than to mix up random chemicals and blow my hands off.
the paladin books weren't all that accurate either.
Video title is wrong - carding should be cracking
Carding was using long distance calling cards.