L0pht Heavy Industries Video Press Kit (1994-1999)

L0pht Heavy Industries
Television Media Coverage
1994-1999
Originally released on VHS tape. Learn more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht
0:00 Intro
0:05 CyberMania 1994, TBS SuperStation, November 5, 1994
4:56 Unauthorized Access, Annaliza Savage, March, 1995 (L0pht segment only)
7:10 The Internet Cafe, PCTV, October 2, 1996
7:41 New England Cable News, March 20, 1997
14:21 Horizon: Inside the Internet, BBC, May 27, 1997 (removed due to complaint)
14:26 New England Cable News, March 18, 1998
17:19 Witness: No Place To Hide, CBC, Part 1, April 9, 1998
20:28 Witness: No Place To Hide, CBC, Part 2, April 16, 1998
24:44 The NewHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, May 8, 1998
31:36 United States Senate Testimony, CSPAN, May 19, 1998
1:30:40 Modern Times, ORF Austria, May 29, 1998 (portion of audio removed due to complaint)
1:32:46 CNN Sunday Morning, August 16, 1998
1:35:03 Digital Planet: Cyberwar, BBC, January 4, 1999
1:43:48 Outro

[@logmeindog]

It's crazy this video is still relevant decades later.

[@MichaelOfRohan]

It is part of history. History is always relevant. Will Smith said its "unfortunate" that Fresh Prince is still relevant. I call it obvious that it would be. It created connection between different people, just like L0ft

[@allthewayinu]

Real talk

[@Roberticovanlamoen]

Truely amazing yeah

[@sanvie01]

happens if we talked about hardware, and not really if we talk about software

[@xipietotec]

So much of my childhood was enabled by you folks, thank you so much :)

[@clementhilty7239]

44:44: Why is everything hackable? "It's cheaper and it's easier for companies to sell insecure software. There's no liability attached to the manufacturers, and there's no policing done to stop companies from selling insecure software under the guise of 'secure'. And in this industry where time to market matters, who wants or cares to add security or even thoroughly test their product? Well, you should. You the government and consumer." -May 19, 1998. This is still relevant to this very day.

[@Anonymous-qb4vc]

I have been always fascinated about all these tech, hacking and geeky stuff since as a kid, seeing it all evolve been hell of a ride..

[@olivius8891]

I just learned someone I know was a member of l0pht. I wasn't expecting that.

[@CallousCoder]

Oh man this brings me back! I always bought the HacTic magazine, as both an EE/CS student and phreaker. And The L0pht was even worshipped overhere in The Netherlands and there were mentions of their achievements in HacTic.

[@An0n-Ym0us]

wow this is a throwback. I remember using your guys software. thank u for putting this video up and remind me that there are still people who do the right thing. I really appreciate the true definition provided of what a true "hacker" is vs what people designate the term to be now.

[@Anonymous-qb4vc]

The vibes back then

[@Noahswope77]

I didn't know John Lennon was a hacker.

[@JohnyJPP]

Thank you Joe!

[@indexoptions]

Amazing video here.

[@amx2311]

1:08:10 - 23 And a half years later and Kingpin uses this very technique to unlock a Bitcoin wallet (normally deemed impossible). Very interesting stuff!

[@svnd4e]

Either you guys were in the writing room for the movie Hackers or they just saw the CyberMania press kit and ran with it. I mean there are exact shots from this video in the movie. Its really awesome seeing where the ideas originated. Shit they even took your likenesses. If that is not where Mr. "The Plague" came from than I have just seen Hackers too many times... Was waiting for Razor & Blade to pop up next.

[@nulf_does_tech]

If I'm not misstaking, 2600 (with emmanuel goldstein) did consulting on Hackers.

[@f0rtuzer0]

Ahh man... back to my youth. L0pht and Phrack, 2600. Good times, in technology. Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit.

[@in70x]

I idolized l0pht growing up.. So awesome.

[@buttaflyski]

This video is legendary, inspiring the next generation 😎

[@chicchi1682]

You guys were so ahead of your time.

[@devmts]

damn bro thats crazy! history was made..

[@devmts]

me and my friends watching here from Brazil, awesome!

[@Mpampis-ld5bv]

oh man i wish i was alive back then, it would be so much fun... nowadays theres nothing I can really do or learn easily from

[@NuniqueNewNork]

If you couldn't get to Sprint, you'd go to that glass room in Reston and hope Annie isn't still working there.

[@patricknelson]

Man, I remember l0phtcrack. Back in the late 90’s early 2000’s it was _the_ tool for, uh… testing… NTLM password hashes.

[@goggigruggari]

this is so cool

[@anthaeus]

thats perfect

[@djkidrush5418]

You guys can Hack literally everything But u can’t remove the white noise out of this VHS file 😀❤️

[@dinikosama]

Lol 😭❤️

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

It's not actually noise.

[@jm-gi2jw]

Actually if you rewind the video file and listen to the static (bask masking). It says Elon musk will rule Mars and own twitter.

[@allthewayinu]

@@jm-gi2jw it says he owns twitter

[@halvorson566]

@@allthewayinu it says he owns X

[@spamlogs2701]

2:55 is my Grandad from teenagers in outer space his name is Bryan Grant Pearson he is still alive and you can Google him he lives in Kaneohe hawaii

[@manudehanoi]

I think I remember playing with a password bruteforce tool from them

[@rhyoliteaquacade]

I have been involved with public safety land mobile radio systems since 1976. The modern era of trunked radio systems that employed central processors (APCO16) the networks were private and physically air gapped by unplugging service modems. The latest technology (APCO25) is entirely reliant upon IP based connectivity and has same vulnerabilities of any Internet based utility. Despite the obvious need to airgap these systems, they are not. This unnecessary increased vulnerability was driven by the marketing desires, to sell features and services, not increase security.

[@only1muppet]

I don’t know who that was over Lieberman’s shoulder, but she smoking hot. At first I thought it was Jeri Ryan lol. It’s funny to hear them talking about Y2K and some of the exploits that are still being used today. I even have a l0pht Crack on CD that I still use once in awhile on friend’s computers when they forgot the password.

[@cryptogenik]

It would be awesome and approate if someone ran this through a dehisser and ai upscaler

[@monad_tcp]

1:09:29 And 25 years later, buffer overflows still happen. C is unsafe at any speeds.

[@paultidwell8799]

I think the problem with C has more to do with the environment the language is produced in, think critically about it and then you realize project deadlines and the corporate pressure to launch product by X date no matter what issues are actually in the software patch later and pray, and you can start to see why despite the ability to code buffer overflows out of C they're everywhere.

[@tyrastravels7468]

Would be great if you could hack away some of that static noise.

[@phizicks]

And to think nowdays these issues STILL exist. power companies shutdown for stupid reasons. etc. if you want it secure, unplug it.

[@paulyonson7576]

them old computers are cute

[@V3racious3]

1:07:52 Senator is really interested in blowing a computer.

[@xinniethep00h]

Lol dude had vr gloves in 94

[@himaliamit8698]

Large static noise

[@crazyinterestin4287]

Are you into NFTs?

[@-Bigjordan]

late 90's i was using Netbus hacking too was hacking pcs all over the place

[@Ignat99Ignatov]

Хакеры из России не крали деньги из Ситибанка, это сделал знакомый Арканоида. Всё как обычно перепутали.

[@s33wagz]

this seems pretty awesome. havent heard of L0pht. clearly a noob lol

[@ApteraEV2024]

Don't feel bad. I've been into this over 30yrs. & never heard of the L0pht. Been in the military though...so...isolated...

[@halvorson566]

@@ApteraEV2024 if you don’t mind my asking, what did you do in the military? Just wondering since you said you’ve been into this for over 30 years; I can only assume you mean computer sciences, hacking, maybe some hardware engineering/hacking. That’s my favorite most of the time since I like taking things apart, seeing everything inside&then remove this, connect that to over there using this tool, power that up, make sure everything’s connected&grounded, punch a few things in&then off load whatever I can, sometimes while leaving a back door open or whatever I “needed” to download onto it, then make sure everything gets put back together so it works again. I always loved taking things apart as a kid&trying to put it back together…when I first started, I was great at taking things apart, but then didn’t remember how to put it together again. I started making blueprints basically while taking things apart to follow when it came time to put it together again.

[@DRmechanic10]

I wonder who joe is!

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

Joe Mama

[@droprelease4820]

he is Kingpin! he testified as well

[@scottcol23]

He's in this whole video. But see 12:31 he is kingpin in this video. Watch his newest video where he hacks a Crypto wallet with $2mil on it.

[@allthewayinu]

SHITOSHI?

[@jedi_chrome]

k-rad

[@moosegoose1282]

lol kingpin seggy as f

[@brodalf4969]

The collective should develop an App which in the best case is in a Container or as Safe and hardened as possible, mass- market it and advertise it which tracks and listens but does then ff to the dev team - and then back-end to reddit flash mobs which either phone call or appear in another Form asking questions and raising Public awareness in order to combat child trafficking/ neglect and abuse

[@muralit4147]

2nd

[@cardboardfootprint]

first?