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astalavista.box.sk when it was a search engine for cracks, hacks and warez....
Originally posted by miniatus
MODS you may move this as you see fit... I figured I'd start here...
.. so I thought, what about bridging AI with ICQ ... and I eventually did.. I came up with a crude AI engine and chat client ( reverse engineered ICQ's protocol ) and came up with icqbot.net ...
... what I was doing was of no harm to anyone... it was entertainment... but now it's discouraged me from proceeding with that sort of work.... was this good for them? or bad for us?
Originally posted by ItDepends
Originally posted by miniatus
MODS you may move this as you see fit... I figured I'd start here...
.. so I thought, what about bridging AI with ICQ ... and I eventually did.. I came up with a crude AI engine and chat client ( reverse engineered ICQ's protocol ) and came up with icqbot.net ...
... what I was doing was of no harm to anyone... it was entertainment... but now it's discouraged me from proceeding with that sort of work.... was this good for them? or bad for us?
Just the fact that you were independently able to reverse engineer the ICQ protocol, deserves very high marks.....that is impressive. S + F
was this good for them? or bad for us? The answer is YES to both questions. I'm sure you would agree.
My question is, if you can share without putting yourself in any jeopardy, what are you doing these days? Is there a unique application or source code that interests you more than others?
Peace!! IDedit on 17-1-2013 by ItDepends because: sentence structureedit on 17-1-2013 by ItDepends because: structure
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
I remember the 80's.
Irish BBS's, home made modems and beige boxes.
Those were the days.
Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne
I'm as old as you OP...
Very similar circumstances, you and I.
I remember phreaking and having free long distance no matter where I was (before cell phones), credit card generation apps, card writers you could order by mail, warez sites that you could download anything you wanted without fear of laws or infections, astalavista.box.sk when it was a search engine for cracks, hacks and warez....
Nostalgic.
Thanks for bringing me back. Kinda reminds me of the USA before it changed into what it is today.
~Namaste
Originally posted by Rikku
well youre still with us, what happened to aol?
Originally posted by Juggernog
reply to post by miniatus
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Bout as far as I got into it in the late 90's early 0's was using brute force programs like Ares and Goldeneye to crack passwords to porn sites and post them on a Quake 3 forum for my friends