I have somehow found myself doing a lighthearted talk on retro hacking this Wednesday. Would anyone here happen to know anything about it?

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    My point was really how there was little to no verification on SMTP servers back then and that you could send mail with a simple terminal program, or, more practically, a script.

    Not hacking, but using knowledge of the insecurity of SMTP servers of the time, to allow spoofing easy spoofing.

    Not so easy to find SMTP servers to do that with now.