Steve Stonebraker

AOL Underground

Interviews with users, hackers, and staff of America Online (AOL), covering the 90’s/Early 2000’s.

Author

Steve Stonebraker

Category

Technology

Podcast website

aolunderground.com

Latest episode

May 22, 2026

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Episodes

Surf Kahuna (part 1) - Origin story of a Digital Forensic Incident Responder (DFIR) 25.07.2022

Surf Kahuna (Ryan Chapman) shares his origin story about a series of events that occurred on AOL that rocked his world and led him down the path of digital forensics. Guest: Surf Kahuna/Mac Diablo (Ryan Chapman) Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast ( https://broast.org ), original idea by LampGold. -- Ryan Chapman Follow Ryan on Twitter - @rj_chap Ryan's Blog - https://incidentr...

hiwind - Developer for life, author of hiwind.bas 22.07.2022

hiwind starting programming at a very early age, became addicted to it, and somehow found a way to keep programming and being on AOL without ever having a computer of his own until his first job.  His passion is palpable!  Be sure to check out https://www.hiwind.me/ and click his on his greetz! Guest: hiwind Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast ( https://broast.org ), original idea...

keeb - Name collectors, keeb.bas, spamming, chat coms, docker origin story 20.07.2022

Chat with @keeb about his keeb.bas file, his first phishing website, creating chat coms in any text field, high school programming, and his career in business development.  This lead to working at Docker, Rancher Labs, at Kentik Guest: keeb Host: Steve Stonebraker CoverArt: Created by Broast ( https://broast.org ), original idea by LampGold. -- Follow keeb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nickstin...

z0ne - Chatroom Laggers, Arrested, Spamming, Nerdcore, opsec44 26.06.2022

z0ne is our first return guest!  Topics: Room laggers (cloners), room takeovers, Getting arrested. Spamming for signups, Spin-off accounts, chat room monitoring MP3 players, cracking, AIM warning, Nerdcore, child exploitation material takedowns, torrenting, operational security (opsec44) - bug bounty bartering Guests: z0ne Host: Steve Stonebraker -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠...

PoSsE4uS (part2) - The Dark Knight 25.06.2022

We cover the future of ReAOL, using different versions of the AOL client, how you can help the project, thank you list (to people that helped with the project), and depression. Guest: PoSsE4uS Host: Steve Stonebraker Show Notes : https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/posse4us/ Shout out: @pad for notifying the masses about the ReAOL project Use ReAOL : https://discord.gg/reaol --- Mental Healt...

tagz and shellz - Getting swatted, planting trojans, and the death of AOL 20.06.2022

Chat with tagz and shellz about being a noob, getting Sub7’d, the death of AOL, rap battles, deltrees, a credit card trojan, exploits, swatting, and silence the blind hacker Guests: tagz and shellz   Host: Steve Stonebraker -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠ Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/pe...

PoSsE4uS (part1) - ReAOL Begins 18.06.2022

PoSsE4uS reveals his origin story and the genesis of the ReAOL project Guest: PoSsE4uS Host: Steve Stonebraker Show Notes : https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/posse4us/ Shout out: @pad for notifying the masses about the ReAOL project Use ReAOL : https://discord.gg/reaol --- Mental Health Resources: Canada - https://bit.ly/3OC2nWw USA - https://bit.ly/3bgGdKW UK - https://bit.ly/3bsBJ4a -- A...

cam0 (part3) - Twitter Account Takeovers 10.06.2022

cam0 explains how he took over Burger King and Jeep's twitter accounts Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/ Guest: cam0 Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio and Sound : Podcast edited and mastered by Charlie Clark,  https://www.fiverr.com/chuckaudio -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderg...

cam0 (part2) - Paris Hilton hack, Prison, Police Dept hack 10.06.2022

cam0 talks about how he hacked Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick, prison, and hacking the police department Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/ Guest: cam0 Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio and Sound : Podcast edited and mastered by Charlie Clark,  https://www.fiverr.com/chuckaudio -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit -...

cam0 (part1) - Merlin, Ewoks, and botnets 09.06.2022

cam0 talks about how he had socially engineered AOL employees, hacked Merlin, deployed trojans, ran botnets, and gained access to the Ewoks private key  Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/ Guest: cam0 Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio and Sound : Podcast edited and mastered by Charlie Clark,  https://www.fiverr.com/chuckaudio -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠...

Emerge - Cracking Conference Calls, a Startup, Web3, NFTs 27.05.2022

Emerge tells us about when he cracked AOL conference calls and pranked called some folks.  Later he talks about his startup, web3, and the crazy land of NFTs. Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/emerge/ Guest: Emerge Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio and Sound: https://www.fiverr.com/dimaog -- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit -...

YTCracker -Spamming, Trojans, and Pwning AOL 23.05.2022

YTCracker takes AOL hacking to a whole new level.  Phishing employees, pwning the Customer Records Information System (CRIS), multi-threaded spamming via FDO, packet manipulation, and creating chatbots to lure lamers to his pay per click sites.  He also likes rapping about his adventures. Parts of his songs are played throughout the episode.  Check out the Episode Extras to see screenshots of his...

Tau – Creator of AOL-FILES.com 10.05.2022

Tau, co-creator of the original aol-files.com takes us down memory lane. We hear about his first programs, why he started aol-files.com, how it got shutdown/renamed, and what he is up to now. We also spend quite a bit of time discussing Form Definition Operator (FDO) language and exploits. Episode Extras: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/tau/ Audio and Sound: Podcast edited and mastered b...

Da Chronic – Creator of AOHell and Automated Phishing 08.01.2022

In 1995 Da Chronic released a program called ‘AO Hell’ that wreaked havoc on America Online.  It allowed users to phish entire chat rooms, “punt” people offline, "mail bomb" user inboxes, and to scroll ASCII art in chat rooms. This lead to thousands of copycat programs and a new subculture within AOL.  It inspired a generation of teenagers and twenty-somethings to learn how to program, d...

Lucid – Fake Credit Cards, Law & Order 16.10.2021

Learn how Lucid generated his own fake credit cards and what happened after his house got raided by the cops.  Episode Extras - https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/lucid/ ---- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠ Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠ Donate - ⁠⁠https:...

FLaMe – Cracking, Carding, and Spamming on AOL in the 90s 08.10.2021

Chat with FLaMe about cracking, carding, and spamming  Episode Extras - https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/flame/ ----- AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠ Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠ Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠ Contact the Hos...

z0ne – Programming, Cracking, and Spamming on AIM and Twitter in the 2000s 15.09.2021

Chat with the creator of Doom Cracker and Spambo; z0ne Episode Extras - https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/z0ne/ ------------------------------------ AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠ Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠ Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AO...

HoSS – Programming Chaos on AOL in the 90s… and a new Wife! 14.09.2021

Chat with the co-creator of The ExorCiST and Super Mad Cow; HoSS. Episode Extras - https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/hoss/ ------ AOL Underground Podcast Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠ Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠ Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠ Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠ Cont...

Trailer 12.09.2021

Trailer Episode for AOL Underground, with HoSS and z0ne

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