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Demodulate is a technical show exploring hacking and phreaking in the 1980s-1990s. By interviewing people involved in the hacking and phreaking scene during this period, we will attempt to understand techically how their attacks worked along with the motivations behind them.
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"The Wardialer" - Popular in the 1980s and 1990s, "wardialing" was a popular method hackers used to find computer system to attack. Prior to the movie "WarGames", it was known as "demon dialing". Whatever you called it, there was much more to "wardialing" than just dialing a bunch of telephone phone numbers. There was a complete methodology hackers…
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"The x.25 hacker" - Invented in the 1970s and popular in the 1980s, x.25 networks allowed some of the first computer systems to be globally connected. At the time, x.25 networks were used by ATM machines, aviation companies, e-mail systems, environmental control systems, news outlets, chemical companies, banking and financial computers and much mor…
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