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What's new on AOH? Check out our New Additions
Aug. 17, 2008

CLONEPOT.TXT	Cloning marijuana from cuttings     5532 bytes. (2008)
PHILCODE.TXT	The Phillips Code     161777 bytes. (1879)
FORGE.TXT	EMAIL FORGING   Hacking     807 bytes. by Capt.Stephenson (2008)
94-1592.TXT	Defunct hard drive manufacturer Miniscribe shipped bricks to customers instead of hard drives. Urban myth? A lot of people heard this one word-of-mouth but this appeal from Miniscribe executives convicted of fraud surrounding the demise of the company shows that that's exactly what happened!     146926 bytes. (1996)
COOKSTUF.TXT	What is Cookie stuffing?   Hacking   World Wide Web     943 bytes. (2008)
ABTSARAH.TXT	About (2008 U.S. Vice Presidential Candidate) Sarah Palin A chilling and eye-opening tale of nepotism and powermongering in Wasilla, Alaska (and later in Juneau...). Is Sarah Palin the right woman for the job of second-in-command of America?     14075 bytes. (2008)
WOMNVOTE.TXT	Why women should vote     3930 bytes. (2008)
DIGGCODE.TXT	Digg.com censored for revealing HD-DVD code     2029 bytes.
STATIC.GIF	Another incredible optical illusion! This is NOT an animated GIF, it is completely standing still, but your brain makes it move anyway!     305306 bytes. (2007)
SWETSHOP.TXT	Nike won't personalize this guy's custom trainers because he wanted the word "Sweatshop" on them...     5171 bytes.
MEL.TXT	The story of a REAL real programmer     9775 bytes. (1983)
CHBOOKS.PDF	Over 100 Books that have been challenged or banned in Canada Some of the books listed here are hateful trash that deserve what they got, but the point of this list is that we can't pick and choose which books we're free to read if we truly have that freedom. From freedomtoread.ca     68457 bytes. by freedomtoread.ca (2004)
DRAWPIG.TXT	How to draw a pig     821 bytes.
EXPHYS.TXT	What is Existential Physics?     1935 bytes.

Default Passwords List now accepting contributions
Feb. 03, 2008

We have received a number of e-mailed submissions to our Default Passwords List along with requests for a form to add default passwords automatically. Well, your wish is our command! Click here to add default passwords to our list! Let's make the biggest and best default passwords resource on the net even better!

Rejected by Wikipedia?
Jan. 20, 2008

Have you recently posted an article to Wikipedia only to find it deleted? Perhaps your article wasn't considered "encyclopedic" enough, or it lacked rigorous sourcing, or espoused a point of view. Perhaps it was even me, Dethme0w, who proposed it for deletion.

Well, take heart. Your article may have a home here at AOH. We have considerably looser standards than Wikipedia does. We allow partisan screeds and religious rants (in fact we want them very much!). We have a whole section for fringe science; Wikipedia only allows writing about the existence of this subject. We really want lots of hacks and how-to's; these are deleted on sight on Wikipedia. The only things we don't want are items that will get us in trouble for hosting them: libel, illegal porn, passwords, credit cards, anything that can hurt someone just by being here.

You can even upload your stuff right now! We'll take care of categorizing it.

AOH New Look and Uploads feature
Sep. 04, 2007

If you've been looking around the site, you've probably noticed that we've changed its appearance to a dark and dramatic cyan-and-black colour theme which we hope will enhance your visit. It's intended to evoke the early days of the digital underworld, when text files, BBS messages, and the login screens of hackable systems everywhere were read on green phosphor monitors. Of course, those green phosphor monitors disappeared for a good reason, which is why we're only trying to bring you the feel of them rather than destroy your eyesight by faithfully reproducing them. Yuck. Anyway, the new look also includes some improvements to the side bars - we've replaced the link to the AOH BBS with a "Hot Topics" display; we've worked on making the ads actually have something to do with the content on the page you're on; we've added an Upload feature (because our FTP server has been gone since January); and of course we have cleaned up and added more files to the TUCoPS, /etc, and /etc/passwd areas of the site.

Have you created a text file, PDF file, or short video involving computer or telecom security? There's no better way to get your creation high exposure and really make a name for yourself than to upload it to a large and popular site like artofhacking.com! And uploading to us just got a bazillion times easier than it used to be!

THC BBS Turns 20
Jul. 09, 2007

Those of you who first visited artofhacking.com and its proto-sites (like "Fixer's Tech Room") less than about 7 years ago may not be aware that before artofhacking.com, there was a dialup BBS called THC - short for Tommy's Holiday Camp - where hacking and phreaking textfiles were stockpiled and downloaded in great numbers, and these same subjects were the focus of much forum-style discussion. Very much as AOH is today.

The BBS, however, was much more than that, and much broader in its interests and appeal than AOH is now. Games, dating/matchmaking, software downloads, chat among locals, the full slate of newsgroup-like "echomail" channels that wanted to be Usenet when they grew up. And all the porn you could eat. What it lacked was a large audience outside its local dialup area, but then a little thing called the Web came along, and dialup BBSes either became fossils or evolved, as THC did, into websites.

Today, July 9, 2007, is the 20th anniversary of the founding of the dialup BBS that eventually became this web site.

THC BBS still exists as an entity of its own, at thcbbs.com. As it was 20 years ago, today it doesn't get a lot of traffic - its heyday came and went like the summer and fall in which it occurred. It's not the Commodore 64 Blue Board it was when Ronald Reagan was the leader of the Free World, rather a phpBB like the AOH BBS, but it's there nevertheless, and who knows, maybe it's due for a comeback.

AOH BBS Open to new users again
Jun. 24, 2007

The Artofhacking.com BBS has been re-opened to new users. Back in February we were experiencing a major flood of new accounts being created by spambots that target the phpBB software used on the AOH BBS. Unfortunately, phpBB didn't (and still doesn't) ship with the kind of bulk user management tools we need to screen a large number of new accounts at once. In order to avoid AOH becoming a spam haven for every sex drug and so-called hot stock tip on the net, we had to temporarily close the door on new accounts. In the mean time, those needed management tools have now been written in-house and are proving very effective. The BBS is now open, come on in and pour yourself a beer and share your stories, questions, answers and general thoughts with the AOH community! And of course, no spam please.

Another lost AOH archive restored!
Feb. 20, 2007

After a five-year absence, the Game Sniper Archive (formerly called "Game Sniper 2000") has returned! This was an immensely popular part of the site and it was heartbreaking to have to take it down. However, with our former ISP and its bandwidth limitations long behind us, we have been on a program of restoring old archives and introducing new ones for some time now, and Game Sniper is the last of the removed former archives that needed to be restored.

Although new titles stopped being added in 2001, we have recently added a few dozen newer files to the archive (check out the "H" section under "Harry Potter", plus others) and we should be fully up to date within a few months. After that, the archive will be updated several times a year as all our other archives are.

As with all our archives, Game Sniper is free and requires no logon or anything from you - just surf in and enjoy!