Dear all,
I am starting a new “history” section of the “weird machines and security” publication
PoC||GTFO (
https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo for my mirror,
https://www.nostarch.com/gtfo for a printed compilation of the first 15 issues).
Ideally we would like some articles about the history of security exploits where the
historical importance is emphasised: we always get authors willing to tell us about the
latest and greatest web exploit but they often lack any historical perspective about what
has been done before.
As PoC||GTFO has a strong emphasis on weird machines and generally forgotten hardware and
software I thought that the contributors to TUHS would be ideally placed to write
something about their preferred security exploits in the past. I have fond memories of
taking over a machine using and NFS /home filesystem exported to the wide-world, of
someone trying to hack into my MasPar via the DEC Ultrix which controlled it, etc. but I
am really rather interested in other perspectives.
I hope a few of you will want to contribute something to the collection, there is still
space for the January 2018 edition if anyone is so inclined.
Cheers,
Arrigo