Campus Network File Sharing
RIAA MPAA Tackle Campus LAN Piracy
My College, SUNY Institude of Technology, banned unsecured folder sharing on the local network in 1998. It doesn’t block you from have all kinds of warez, moviez, and mp3z in a passworded network share though. It affected me much more than the global campus because i’m not very socially adept or connected and wasn’t motivated to hack because more warez could be gotten from the web but just not as easily (but easier than hacking given patience). But I still have several MP3s from 1997 though. I pretty sure the school has banned all file-sharing, internal or external, but maybe not since my lack of a subtlety and moderation has catalyzed many new rules in 1998.
I remember after ‘hacking’ the AS/400 (it was a no-code no-tool no-dict/brute crack navigation manipulation loophole), i got invited into a warez group only to publiize their IRC channel and FTP servers after realizing I wouldn’t event come close to my inititiation curry-quota so lots of people could have lots of warez without rules and secrecy and need for social connections. Thats why I like Emule so much plus adding all the ‘rare-gem’ homebrew and other rare but cool stuff. Some of the rare stuff is legal, most is grey becuase they are illegal derivitive works like most anime-music videos or star trek vs babylon 5 or depict illegal activity like street-racing, a little bit is not legal at all — non-mainstream niche commercial products and confidential leakage.
I remember hacking a distro in college times too, which was a hacked corporate account. It was run by a rookie group because they put their password in the javascript code on their site, so their was no real hacking there either. I cleaned and filtered the collection and merged my and their hoards on both ends and used it to spam the newsgroups and bring traffic to my site (primarily with PhotoShop 4). It was getting me over 1000 pageviews per day. Later i learned that posting a list of porn newsgroups to all the porn newsgroups got me 3000 hits a day. I got busted at school for it though because I wasn’t 100% accurate in separating religion and politics out from the porn. Got my dormroom port and on-campus accounts disabled for the rest of the year and put on school-probation. I adapted fairly well though, using the computer labs for internet and outside free-accounts for email and webhosting, and I was able to run all kinds of illegal (school) experimental stuff on my own computer because my port was to disabled for me to get busted for for the software to affect the network. The only reason i got a job after school is because I use the same spam philosphy with my resume on all the job sites, even hacking and exploiting illegal resume-amenities (usually just popping up to my own server on sites that didn’t filter html or javascript). I usually fail the interviews though. Had over 3 dozen intervies in 2 months and 50-150 page views per day on my own-server resume page. I really suck with people but spam and exploitation really works. I would never get a job without paraental or program assistance without the Internet. I never would’ve gotten hooked up up with MLS without meeting Chungy in an IRC channel (most of the priviliges came from the coach like me though).
I remember finding a querystring exploit at SpinLife and my boss actually manually scraped the personal information of every one of their customers and used it primarily to spam them both email and snailmail, using order history to help focus the spam (I only dug up the exploit the scraping i didn’t feel like doing because it was boring and tedious). The exploit is still there, but the pathway is changed and slightly more convoluted, but it is still futzing with the unecrypted querystring. The same can be done with cookies too – hack the server by futzing with their values. Firefox has plugins that make this easy without hacking know-how.
