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  • I’d say world wars involve multiple major powers in full total war economy. We haven’t seen any major power do that since WW2 to my knowledge. Involvement of multiple nations does not make it a world war IMO, otherwise the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan count, among many others in history. There’s also not side conflicts occurring in all the colonial possessions like in the other world wars.











  • Antivirus didn’t really exist in my script kiddie days in the very early 00s. It was awesome to put Sub7 on someone’s PC, fire up their webcam, pop the matrix screensaver type hack on, chat to them, then open their CD drive. Freaked some friends out really good that way.

    After they would log off, I’d pull their AIM credentials and hop on their screen name , message one of their buddies, and ask them to “test out this screensaver I just made”. I’d get their IP from the AIM direct connection used to send the file. Rinse and repeat with the next list of AIM contacts. I had a dozen infected people across the country I didn’t know at all. Never did anything particularly malicious but man it was fun.

    Now that I’m thinking about it, I did nuke the HDD of a friend of a friend with a .bat script called hard drive killer pro, that was malicious. That’s the only one I regret doing in retrospect. I just wanted to see if it worked, they didn’t get back online for a year or so.

    Edit: I found the hard drive killer, wow. Munga Bunga’s Hard Drive Killer Pro Version 4.0. I’d love to know how this worked, apparently it could cause physical damage. Not sure how valid that is, but it did completely screw up the PC.