Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

2016-07-26 Thread Joly MacFie
Just noticed this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/18/prince_philip_prestel_hack/ On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Radi Pira <[2]radip...@sigaint.org> wrote: There's an example from the piracy scene that I think predates the Chanology leaks: the Media Defender email dum

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

2016-07-09 Thread Radi Pira
There's an example from the piracy scene that I think predates the Chanology leaks: the Media Defender email dump from September 15 2007 by the group MDD (MediaDefender-Defenders). The original leak: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD News coverage: http

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

2016-07-06 Thread Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
Hi Steve, Thanks for raising this example. I am briefly mentioning it ... as it is similar to what happened with ASC law... and am familiar with the case as I used to be part of the OPG. But still the difference it was not hackers mucking about as had been the case with ACS law. It also was signif

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4 Whisteblowing

2016-07-06 Thread Steve McLaughlin
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the accidental leak of Diebold's source code and internal emails in 2003 comes to mind. It didn't contain a smoking gun as far as I know, just evidence of sloppy voting booth security. The real significance of the incident was the

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

2016-07-06 Thread Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
Hi Ted, I am not looking to historicize the phrase or word whistleblowing or leak though that no doubt would be interesting :) Hope someone takes that on. I am looking for concrete examples and instances of a sub-genre of whistleblowing: hackers breaking into a computer system *and* finding email

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

2016-07-06 Thread t byfield
This is a great question. I guess you've used the bog-standard method of looking it up? Etymology is pretty old-fashioned, I know, but you never know what you'll turn up -- like the Oxford English Dictionary's attestations of the phrase 'blow the whistle' in P. G. Wodehouse (1934) and Raymond C

What were the first instances of hacking 4 Whisteblowing

2016-07-06 Thread Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
Hi all, I am writing a piece that is trying to historicize direct action hacking/whistel blowing and am trying to pin point any early examples of hackers hacking in order to access and then leak the information/emails to ex pose wrong doing.. Obviously Anonymous popularized the tactic and prio