ythos, 5 months ago

@poppastring We were just talking about that yesterday! "You never forget the sound of every single box in the server farm simultaneously spinning up its disks as everything is deleted."

poppastring, 5 months ago

@ythos 😅

ythos, 5 months ago

@poppastring Then again, I'm old enough to remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCA_(computer_virus)

grork, 5 months ago

@poppastring I think at the time I was disappointed to only get one. I’m still unsure if this reflects poorly on me. (and i used a mail reader that was plain text, and I had to uudecode it, IIRC)

poppastring, 5 months ago

@grork 😆

jonsagara, 5 months ago

@poppastring it was utter chaos that afternoon

poppastring, 5 months ago

@jonsagara Yep, it was first mass software exploit I remember. It took a while to understand the scope.