The Legion of Doom (LoD) wasn’t just a “hacker group”, it captured the essence of underground hacking in the 80s/90s. BBSes, phreaking, rival crews, and the crackdowns that changed everything. From those humble beginnings came a legacy that still echoes through modern security culture today.
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Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
This episode was written by Nate Nelson.
Assembled by Tristan Ledger.
Episode artwork by odibagas.
Mixing by Proximity Sound.
Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Transcript
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JACK: I want to play for you a narration of a piece of classic hacker literature. Everyone should be familiar with this. Some of you may even have parts of this memorized. Here, take a listen from the author himself.
LOYD: Another one got caught today that’s all over the papers. Teenager arrested in computer crime scandal. Hacker arrested after bank tampering. Damn kids, they’re all alike. I’m a hacker. Enter my world. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. And then it happened; a door opened to a world, rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins. This is it. This was where I belong. But this is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.