Blaine (Soloist) tells us his journey from a kid connecting to local BBSs, finding AOL, learning to program, spamming for an affiliate network, and then finally finding his true passion; building websites and businesses. Guest: Blaine Vess (https://www.linkedin.com/in/blainevess/, https://www.immeasurable.com/) Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
We cover music and video piracy and delve in deep into the many websites and schemes ShiZZa OaK was able to probe and exploit for profit. Coupon stacking, gift card re-use, OSX Upgrade disc enumeration, etc. Guest: ShiZZa Oak Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
ShiZZa OaK tells us about his switch to IRC and joining one of the first mp3 ripping groups on the scene, Rabid Neurosis (RNS) and hosting an mp3 top site. We also talk about his phone hijinks when phreaking, calling Miss Cleo, and cracking passwords. Other MP3 ripping groups mentioned: Underground Music Alliance CDA - Compress 'Da Audio Guest: ShiZZa Oak Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. Episode References: How Music Got Free Rabid Neurosis mp3scene.info -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
ShiZZa OaK talks about the early days on AOL, getting early access to a Windows 95 Beta CD, 0-day ftp site access, trolling MTV Yack Live and the first mp3 ripped and uploaded to the scene. Guest: ShiZZa Oak Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. Episode References: MTV Yack Live - Greenday -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Spaz tells us about his early days dabbling in carding, socially engineering various ISPs, and working with affiliate networks. Guest: Spaz Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
NailZ tells us about Codeine's plan to take over AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Planting trojan's on AOL employee machines and using them to proxy FDO and ATOM to manipulate Merlin and cause chaos on AOL. Also we talk about why he created LuciferX. Guest: NailZ Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Nise tells us about cracking, scrollers, phishing, account takeovers, and ruining some people's lives. Later he tells us about how AOL led to him finding his passion for marketing and a book he has been writing. Guest: Nise (https://appliedcuriositys.com/) Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AOLUndergroundPodcast Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Sam tells us about his experience using AOL UK while coming of age in England. His fascination with visual art began here and he fell in love with FDO (Form Definition Operator) generated content. We then nerd out on how exactly cartoon episodes are produced. Guest: Sam Fox (He's the new Audio Editor for this Podcast!) Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Broast tells us about writing password stealers, password crackers, deploying botnets, finding exploits, and hacking Digital Gangster and other forums. Guest: Broast Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/ https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ Credits: Audio Editing by Sam Fox - sam.fox.london@gmail.com
Pen tells us about Pen Tools, a password stealer detector he wrote, user interfaces, the warez scene and more. We jump around a bit in this episode (between AOL and not AOL). Also, unfortunately the interview was cut short. Guest: Pen Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ Credits: Audio Editing by Sam Fox - sam.fox.london@gmail.com
Single talks about how the AOL hacking group NV2 formed, carding, and when the group swatted their way to the top. Guest: Single Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Single Follow Single on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/devastatorbrand/ Single's Graffiti Accessory Brand - https://www.devastatorbrand.com/ The missing link (app Single made for AOL) - https://justinakapaste.com/the-missing-link/ -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Erci Stern (from parts one and two) tells us her origin story. We review in depth how she battled users that were uploading Warez on a customer's Anonymous FTP site and also hear a funny story about Slingo. She takes us through her entire career at AOL where she started in Site Reliability (Systems Administration/Operations), moving to Information Security/QA, and then went into project management. We also cover her life after AOL where she went back to System Administration and has been a champion of security along the way throughout her career. Other topics include Configuration Management, Security Certifications, passion projects, etc.. Erici also shares with us her experience mentoring at "Girls who Code" and advice for girls that want to go into IT. Guest: Erci Stern Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL. You will hear about the Eworld, Tandylink, Commodore 64, Telnet, RAINMAN, Jay Levitt, Hackers, Q-Guides, scalability issues, and more. Guests: Craig Braquet Jan DeLucien Bryan Teague Erci Stern Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Craig Braquet Craig's famous Quora post - https://bit.ly/3OOeijL All of Us: https://bit.ly/3JibxWA https://allofus.nih.gov/about/who-we-are/all-us-participant-partners?page=1 -- Jan DeLucien Surviving a brain injury, my story --Trying to be Virtuous About Brain Injury Services - An Interview Click here to donate your brain (posthumously, or course) -- Bryan Teague https://bryanteague.com https://medium.com/@bryanlteague -- Erci Stern Fancy Cats and Dogs Rescue - I foster for them each year and adopt all my personal pets from them. They are a truly caring and amazing animal rescue organization. www.fancycats.org Doctors without Borders - I give to this organization because there are so many people around the world who don't have access to western style medicine for whom what we consider simple procedures would be life altering benefits. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/
Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL. You will hear about the Quantum Link hacker, Jenny C, the "Fives" hack, outages, how multiple departments were formed, the Habitat game, What made AOL special, Honeywell Multics, innovation, auditoriums, Tandy Link, Apple Link, and more. Guests: Craig Braquet Jan DeLucien Bryan Teague Erci Stern Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Craig Braquet Craig's famous Quora post - https://bit.ly/3OOeijL All of Us: https://bit.ly/3JibxWA https://allofus.nih.gov/about/who-we-are/all-us-participant-partners?page=1 -- Jan DeLucien Surviving a brain injury, my story --Trying to be Virtuous About Brain Injury Services - An Interview Click here to donate your brain (posthumously, or course) -- Bryan Teague https://bryanteague.com https://medium.com/@bryanlteague -- Erci Stern Fancy Cats and Dogs Rescue - I foster for them each year and adopt all my personal pets from them. They are a truly caring and amazing animal rescue organization. www.fancycats.org Doctors without Borders - I give to this organization because there are so many people around the world who don't have access to western style medicine for whom what we consider simple procedures would be life altering benefits. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://nina.chat/connect/aol/ (AOL 4.0 is working!) https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
Surf Kahuna (Ryan Chapman) finishes his origin story and what he learned from it. Then Steve and Ryan talk espionage, multiple Advanced Persistent Threats, retro gaming, password spraying, ransomware, and what has helped Ryan be successful in Infosec. Guest: Surf Kahuna/Mac Diablo (Ryan Chapman) Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Ryan Chapman Follow Ryan on Twitter - @rj_chap Ryan's Blog - https://incidentresponse.training/ Author of SANS FOR528 "Ransomware for Incident Responders" - for528.com/course Instructor of SANS FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques - https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/reverse-engineering-malware-malware-analysis-tools-techniques/ Part of the @CactusCon crew - https://www.cactuscon.com/ -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/
Surf Kahuna (Ryan Chapman) shares his origin story about a series of events that occurred on AOL that rocked his world and led him down the path of digital forensics. Guest: Surf Kahuna/Mac Diablo (Ryan Chapman) Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Ryan Chapman Follow Ryan on Twitter - @rj_chap Ryan's Blog - https://incidentresponse.training/ Author of SANS FOR528 "Ransomware for Incident Responders" - for528.com/course Instructor of SANS FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques - https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/reverse-engineering-malware-malware-analysis-tools-techniques/ Part of the @CactusCon crew -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/
hiwind starting programming at a very early age, became addicted to it, and somehow found a way to keep programming and being on AOL without ever having a computer of his own until his first job. His passion is palpable! Be sure to check out https://www.hiwind.me/ and click his on his greetz! Guest: hiwind Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Follow hiwind on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hiwindiest hiwind's retro website - https://www.hiwind.me/ -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/
Chat with @keeb about his keeb.bas file, his first phishing website, creating chat coms in any text field, high school programming, and his career in business development. This lead to working at Docker, Rancher Labs, at Kentik Guest: keeb Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold. -- Follow keeb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nickstinemates keeb's website - https://keeb.dev/ Kentik - https://kentik.com -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ ------- Episode chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:02 First time got on AOL 00:02:46 How did you find the scene? 00:03:24 First programs used 00:05:54 Laggers 00:06:29 Collaboration 00:08:10 dos32.bas and OCX files 00:09:24 Open source programming 00:10:06 Keeb.bas 00:11:37 Looking back at old code 00:12:48 Spamming and Operator Accounts 00:14:37 Did you release any of your programs? 00:15:22 Keebs Cookies 00:20:26 Spamming 00:21:59 First phishing website 00:23:55 Creating website with AOL UI 00:29:10 Chat com in any text editor 00:29:59 College Credit VB Programming Class 00:33:41 Background on Extra Classes 00:35:42 High School Programming 00:35:54 Post AOL 00:38:03 Career in Business Development 00:39:00 Working at Docker 00:43:01 Docker Origin Story 00:44:28 First Version of Docker 00:45:13 Kubernetes 00:46:18 Openstack 00:49:43 Rancher Labs 00:50:20 Kentik 00:56:02 Synthetic Testing 01:01:17 Apple Password 128 characters 01:03:57 Goodbye
z0ne is our first return guest! Topics: Room laggers (cloners), room takeovers, Getting arrested. Spamming for signups, Spin-off accounts, chat room monitoring MP3 players, cracking, AIM warning, Nerdcore, child exploitation material takedowns, torrenting, operational security (opsec44) - bug bounty bartering Guests: z0ne Host: Steve Stonebraker -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/ -- Other Check out my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker
We cover the future of ReAOL, using different versions of the AOL client, how you can help the project, thank you list (to people that helped with the project), and depression. Guest: PoSsE4uS Host: Steve Stonebraker Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/posse4us/ Shout out: @pad for notifying the masses about the ReAOL project Use ReAOL: https://discord.gg/reaol --- Mental Health Resources: Canada - https://bit.ly/3OC2nWw USA - https://bit.ly/3bgGdKW UK - https://bit.ly/3bsBJ4a -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - @AOLUnderground @brakertech Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/ Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop Donate - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground Contact the Host - https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/ Reconnect with old AOLers - https://discord.gg/p3ol https://aolunderground.com/community/
My account cleared itself
A time warp of how bad security was back in the day! ohhh wait... nevermind still horrible. Some of the best stories here!