Exclusive: Free resource launched to teach infosec researchers a thing or two from the past

guest · Jan 2, 2020

Exclusive: Free resource launched to teach infosec researchers a thing or two from the past
January 2, 2020
https://www.scmagazineuk.com/exclus...ec-researchers-thing-two-past/article/1669699

In an exclusive interview with CTO at Octopi Managed Services, Ian Thornton-Trump, SC reports launch of The Octopi Hacking Archive, including1995 BBS files, provided free to aid understading of threat evolution.
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The Octopi Hacking Archive is a totally free to access online resource aimed at security researchers and members of the broader infosec community. This truly massive chunk of computer history is being put online to bring the collected works of some of the earliest hacking groups into one archive.

The brainchild of anonymity and privacy advocate Colin Childs, a core contributor to The Tor Project, and the CTO at Octopi Managed Services, Ian Thornton-Trump, the archive is based around a massive collection of BBS text files that chronicle the birth of the online computer security industry.
Having purchased a CD-ROM in 1995 called "Forbidden Subjects" at an early DEFCON, it ended up lost in a spindle of old operating system and application CDs. Until a clear-out formed the spark of what has become the Octopi Hacking Archive.

Ethical hacker and a member of The Beer Farmers collective, John Opdenakker, says "it's awesome that this information becomes publicly available. To better defend ourselves in the future against particular threats it's important to understand their history and evolution."
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