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“We want everyone to know that Windows is full of vulnerabilities inside the operating system. And the best way to prove it is to hit them, ”one of the members of the“ Cult of the Dead Cow ”hacker group made such a statement.
Loud enough, don't you think? But that was not bravado. These guys really made a rustle in their time, and because of them, after a couple of decades, we seal up cameras and never feel protected when we open a laptop or turn on a computer.
"The Cult of the Dead (Dead) Cow" is one of the first and old hacker groups.
The father of the young hacker Kevin Wheeler worked in the computer field and bought a cool Apple II and a modem for his son. Most of all, the future founder of the cult of the dead cow loved to deceive the telephone networks and generally did not shy away from doing what was not entirely legal.
He quickly found like-minded people, and the guys gathered at one of the farm slaughterhouses, where they discussed their geek business. But they did not want to take a banal name in the style of nicknames that schoolchildren take in counter today, and looking around at the mooing bulls and scratching their restless heads, they decided to call themselves the cult of the dead cow.
And then it started.
They, of course, did not gain the fame of anonymous, but the goals of the guys were different. If anonymous people were drowned for honesty, humanity and justice, then the guys from the cult were also for it, but ... in the language of the Internet at the beginning of the 2000s, they liked trash, frenzy and sodomy. They were not so worried about politics and the restoration of justice on our restless globe, as much as the possibility of trolling someone.
They published a magazine and allowed themselves many seditious and dissolute things in relation to the church and other sacred values of an ordinary American, for which today you would definitely be imprisoned. Because of this magazine, many reporters and journalists called the guys "a bunch of psychos" and seriously thought that they did not have all the houses.
For example, members of the cult of the dead cow on serious cabbage soup said that it was they who infected President Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer's by firing a poison dart at him from the windpipe with which the Indians walk. In short, they fumbled for postirony even before it became mainstream.
Like the Anonymous, they fought the Church of Scientology, which Tom Cruise adores.
True, they did it again in their own way, claiming that Scientologists are former SS men who steal babies from hospitals and turn them into a "super soldier" a la Captain America in order to attack the United States.
But on one trolling, the guys would not have gone far.
They joined an international coalition of hackers, and in 1999 personally created an independent group for anti-censorship and protection of human rights on the Internet.
Now comes the fun part.
In addition to creating anonymous chats, trojans and browsers with built-in torus, the swan song of the cult of the dead cows is the creation of the Back Orifice warrior. I talked about the warrior in one of my videos, but if you missed him, then the warrior is a remote administration program. In Russian speaking, remote control over your computer.
And this is not some kind of team viewer - the program does not give itself out in any way and, of course, does not warn about its actions.
That is, you can open documents, print, go to the Internet, peep through the camera - the list of your powers is the same as that of the user who sits at this computer. And even more. And this, for a second, 1998. The guys from the cult of the dead cow showed that the vaunted Windows 98 at that time could not withstand their attacks and, thanks to the warrior, became an obedient puppet. A little later, the second Back Orifice was released, adapted for windows NT, XP and windows 2000
I think you yourself can imagine what kind of kipish it caused. At first, no one attached importance to this and the guys were simply brushed aside. But soon all the critics realized how wrong they were. At the same time, the guys were not greedy and said that they were ready to give the source code of their warriors so that people could improve or modernize them.
And here, sobsvenno, the logo of their brainchild.
As you can see, they did not have the Napoleon and pathos complex. Back Orifice is a play on words from Mycroft's Back Office. And it literally translates as "back cover."
And not so long ago, one of the members of this cult became the main security guard of Twitter. Which once again proves that if you are a smart guy, then you will be torn away with their hands, despite your unclear past. And all these dudes have clearly shown that a hacker is not a hooded figure from a stock image, behind which green numbers from the matrix are running. And often these are just guys who love to play around and have fun. So it goes.
They also have their own website. Looks quite authentic.
Loud enough, don't you think? But that was not bravado. These guys really made a rustle in their time, and because of them, after a couple of decades, we seal up cameras and never feel protected when we open a laptop or turn on a computer.
"The Cult of the Dead (Dead) Cow" is one of the first and old hacker groups.
The father of the young hacker Kevin Wheeler worked in the computer field and bought a cool Apple II and a modem for his son. Most of all, the future founder of the cult of the dead cow loved to deceive the telephone networks and generally did not shy away from doing what was not entirely legal.
He quickly found like-minded people, and the guys gathered at one of the farm slaughterhouses, where they discussed their geek business. But they did not want to take a banal name in the style of nicknames that schoolchildren take in counter today, and looking around at the mooing bulls and scratching their restless heads, they decided to call themselves the cult of the dead cow.
And then it started.
They, of course, did not gain the fame of anonymous, but the goals of the guys were different. If anonymous people were drowned for honesty, humanity and justice, then the guys from the cult were also for it, but ... in the language of the Internet at the beginning of the 2000s, they liked trash, frenzy and sodomy. They were not so worried about politics and the restoration of justice on our restless globe, as much as the possibility of trolling someone.
They published a magazine and allowed themselves many seditious and dissolute things in relation to the church and other sacred values of an ordinary American, for which today you would definitely be imprisoned. Because of this magazine, many reporters and journalists called the guys "a bunch of psychos" and seriously thought that they did not have all the houses.
For example, members of the cult of the dead cow on serious cabbage soup said that it was they who infected President Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer's by firing a poison dart at him from the windpipe with which the Indians walk. In short, they fumbled for postirony even before it became mainstream.
Like the Anonymous, they fought the Church of Scientology, which Tom Cruise adores.
True, they did it again in their own way, claiming that Scientologists are former SS men who steal babies from hospitals and turn them into a "super soldier" a la Captain America in order to attack the United States.
But on one trolling, the guys would not have gone far.
They joined an international coalition of hackers, and in 1999 personally created an independent group for anti-censorship and protection of human rights on the Internet.
Now comes the fun part.
In addition to creating anonymous chats, trojans and browsers with built-in torus, the swan song of the cult of the dead cows is the creation of the Back Orifice warrior. I talked about the warrior in one of my videos, but if you missed him, then the warrior is a remote administration program. In Russian speaking, remote control over your computer.
And this is not some kind of team viewer - the program does not give itself out in any way and, of course, does not warn about its actions.
That is, you can open documents, print, go to the Internet, peep through the camera - the list of your powers is the same as that of the user who sits at this computer. And even more. And this, for a second, 1998. The guys from the cult of the dead cow showed that the vaunted Windows 98 at that time could not withstand their attacks and, thanks to the warrior, became an obedient puppet. A little later, the second Back Orifice was released, adapted for windows NT, XP and windows 2000
I think you yourself can imagine what kind of kipish it caused. At first, no one attached importance to this and the guys were simply brushed aside. But soon all the critics realized how wrong they were. At the same time, the guys were not greedy and said that they were ready to give the source code of their warriors so that people could improve or modernize them.
And here, sobsvenno, the logo of their brainchild.
As you can see, they did not have the Napoleon and pathos complex. Back Orifice is a play on words from Mycroft's Back Office. And it literally translates as "back cover."
And not so long ago, one of the members of this cult became the main security guard of Twitter. Which once again proves that if you are a smart guy, then you will be torn away with their hands, despite your unclear past. And all these dudes have clearly shown that a hacker is not a hooded figure from a stock image, behind which green numbers from the matrix are running. And often these are just guys who love to play around and have fun. So it goes.
They also have their own website. Looks quite authentic.
