Gay Ass 1337 Aol H4ck3rz Yo
03-03-2003, 02:56 PM
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Thats way more than I ever needed to know about anything with AOL. 
And you do know the main AOL database got hacked right? Thats the only way I can think of that the passwords were found out. My dad uses my computer to check his email and I keep this thing locked down pretty tight with NAV Corporate and being behind a firewall.
Also theres no way even my E-illiterate parents would have gone to a shady site like one of those.
And you do know the main AOL database got hacked right? Thats the only way I can think of that the passwords were found out. My dad uses my computer to check his email and I keep this thing locked down pretty tight with NAV Corporate and being behind a firewall.
Also theres no way even my E-illiterate parents would have gone to a shady site like one of those.
03-03-2003, 03:00 PM
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Yeah, I'm REALLY pressuring them to ditch it already.
My dads only reasoning to keep it is he thinks he'll lose all his favorite sites and emails.
I was like, "um, are you ******* kidding me?"
Just save all the emails to disk and bookmark the favorites in IE so we can ditch these 'tards.
"AOL, the choice of idiots and child molesters everywhere"
My dads only reasoning to keep it is he thinks he'll lose all his favorite sites and emails.
I was like, "um, are you ******* kidding me?"
Just save all the emails to disk and bookmark the favorites in IE so we can ditch these 'tards.
"AOL, the choice of idiots and child molesters everywhere"
03-03-2003, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoffman72' date='Mar 3 2003, 03:56 PM
Thats way more than I ever needed to know about anything with AOL.
And you do know the main AOL database got hacked right? Thats the only way I can think of that the passwords were found out. My dad uses my computer to check his email and I keep this thing locked down pretty tight with NAV Corporate and being behind a firewall.
Also theres no way even my E-illiterate parents would have gone to a shady site like one of those.
And you do know the main AOL database got hacked right? Thats the only way I can think of that the passwords were found out. My dad uses my computer to check his email and I keep this thing locked down pretty tight with NAV Corporate and being behind a firewall.
Also theres no way even my E-illiterate parents would have gone to a shady site like one of those.
The AOL's database servers are so over-encrypted and over-protected it's not even close to being funny. You know they encrypt an encryption of the encryption of a password? And to the umpteenth degree basically. Let alone the fact that the server storing the passwords only accepts traffic on a dynamic port number which changes each time the server is contacted to check password vs name.
So now to contact the server you must make the request of comparing a name to a password, at which time you must already have encrypted the password before sending it to the server to compare, the server retrieves it and goes through it's decryption process. once decrypted to about the half-way point it is checked against a "false" database, if matching in the false database it the re-encrypts it back to the original state, checks it vs. the actual database if those 2 match then your requested connection is granted access to the connection server that you dialed originally which connects t the AOL Program server, unless you're not on an AOL dialup account, then you're connected via your ISP to the AOL program server directly. Either way you have mere moments of connection to the password database server.
The algorithm(sp?) was solved at which time about two days later AOL changed it and to my knowledge it hasn't been solved again.
kevin.