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Major ICQ security hole (1998)

https://opennet.ru/base/maillist/169.txt.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069439

#HackerNews #ICQ #Security #Cybersecurity #1998 #TechHistory #Vulnerability

It is wild how the best tech ideas often come from outside the IT world. Hedy Lamarr used piano rolls to conceptualize frequency hopping, which helps prevent signal jamming in modern wireless setups. I wrote about the history of the Hedy Lamarr invention and how it paved the way for WiFi on my blog here: https://gwizit.com/go/ZfOt3mH

#TechHistory #WirelessTech #CyberSecurity

**IMSAI 8080 – the real computer behind *WarGames* (1983)**

How did early microcomputers work with switches, LEDs and a terminal?

And how much of the IMSAI 8080 in *WarGames* was real technology – and how much was Hollywood?

I just published a new blog article and linked it directly to the interactive exhibit in my Computer Museum:

Blog article:
https://www.dennishilk.com/blog/imsai-8080-wargames-computer/

Interactive exhibit:
https://www.dennishilk.com/museum/imsai-8080/

The article covers:
the **IMSAI 8080** and the **Intel 8080**
the connection to ***WarGames***, **WOPR** and the early home-computing era
**front-panel programming**, memory addresses and machine code
what was historically real in the film – and what was fiction

my interactive browser reconstruction with a working **front panel**, **terminal** and a **WarGames-inspired bonus experience**

If you like retro computers, computing history or early hacker culture, you may enjoy this one. ❤️

#IMSAI8080 #WarGames #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory #Intel8080 #Microcomputer #Museum #TechHistory

**IMSAI 8080 – der echte Computer hinter *WarGames* (1983)**

Wie funktionierten frühe Mikrocomputer mit Schaltern, LEDs und Terminal?

Und was war am IMSAI 8080 im Film *WarGames* eigentlich echt – und was war Hollywood?

Ich habe dazu einen neuen Blogartikel veröffentlicht und das Thema direkt mit meinem interaktiven Exponat im Computer Museum verbunden:

Blogartikel:
https://www.dennishilk.com/de/blog/imsai-8080-wargames-computer/

Interaktives Exponat:
https://www.dennishilk.com/de/museum/imsai-8080/

Im Artikel geht es unter anderem um:

den **IMSAI 8080** und den **Intel 8080**
die Verbindung zu ***WarGames***, **WOPR** und der frühen Heimcomputer-Ära
**Schalterprogrammierung**, Speicheradressen und Maschinenbefehle

was an der Filmtechnik historisch war – und was Fiktion
meine interaktive Browser-Rekonstruktion mit **Frontpanel**, **Terminal** und **WarGames-inspiriertem Bonusbereich**

Wenn du Retro-Computer, Computergeschichte oder frühe Hackerkultur spannend findest, ist das vielleicht genau dein Ding. ❤️

#IMSAI8080 #WarGames #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory #Intel8080 #Microcomputer #Museum #BrowserGame #TechHistory

🤔 Ah, the age-old tale of a programmer reminiscing about the glory days of 5MHz processing power while contemplating the demise of human coding before the almighty #LLMs. 🚀 If only Rust's borrow checker could also manage #nostalgia overload, we'd be in business! 😂
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/10/14/agentic-dev-and-rust/ #programming #Rust #humor #techhistory #HackerNews #ngated