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Wow, so much memories! BO, Nervous, BitchSlap, mIRC scripts... I also remember the famous NetBios hack at this time. Easy to do, and you felt like a real hacker! Command lines instead of GUI! That was an incredible feeling and it later brought me to Linux.. and still on Linux (ok on Ubuntu, I'm a casu now :D)

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NetBios… still out there giving gifts. We had a pen test a couple years ago and the hackers were easily able to get NetBios to use some old legacy feature to request user hashes. From there just load them into a GPU heavy cracker and 50% of our company user passwords in a few hours.

The IT company at the time had no idea they shouldn’t enable netbios unless it was actually required for something.

Yep, these apps definitely sparked my interest in linux as well.

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