AOL Underground

AOL Underground

Steve Stonebraker

Episodes 44
Avg. Duration 52m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (22)
Since Sep 2021
Latest Episode May 2026

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Every 2 Months
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Episodic
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32%
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Interviews with users, hackers, and staff of America Online (AOL), covering the 90’s/Early 2000’s.

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Fibra - Mac Hacker, Reverse Engineering AOL 3.0

May 22, 2026 1h 38m

Fibra grew up a Mac kid in a PC-dominated warez scene, tinkering in HyperCard before discovering AOL4FREE and the elite Mac chat crews of the mid-'90s. He walks through the Mac side of AOL hacking,…

Rajuabju - ARiSE Warez President, Carding

Feb 21, 2026 1h 6m

The president of the ARiSE warez group tells us about his experience with BBS, Prodigy, QuantumLink, AOL, and IRC. He also talks about the early days of the warez scene, notable groups at the time,…

BMB - AOL-files.com, FDO, Invokes

Jan 17, 2026 58m

Pwning AOL with pure FDO. Hacking employee accounts. Downloading AOL files and posting them to aol-files.com. BMB recounts his amazing storyGuest: BMBHost: Steve StonebrakerAudio Editor: Sam Fox…

BoFeN - Mass Mailers, PW Stealer, ARiSE Warez Group

Jan 06, 2026 41m

Creator of Millennium, Blizzard, and Code Genie. Despite facing relentless criticism and accusations of code theft, his software gained widespread use. He remains active in coding today, applying…

Barrac1315 - KillTimer, AOL Beta Program

Oct 11, 2025 59m

The creator of KillTimer tells his story!Blog post about Killtimer: https://adventuresincomputing.bajgier.net/development/storytelling/2024/10/08/the-killtimer-story.htmlHighlights Include:First…

Suspect - Keyloggers, Cracking, Exploits

May 02, 2025 55m

Suspect shares his journey through the scene, starting from his first experiences with computers in the mid-90s and becoming active in the AOL community from 2000 to 2008. He discusses early…

Pat or JK - API Spy, Find That Bas, Fate Zero Encryption

Mar 08, 2025 32m

Pat or JK shares why he created API Spy, a tool for automating Windows API interactions and Find That Bas, which analyzed .bas files to detect code reuse. Pat also talks about AIM Flash,…

Robbie Saunders - AIM Filter, Protocol Fuzzing, Hacking

Feb 11, 2025 49m

Robbie's programming journey began with early exposure to computers and the internet, where he explored bulletin board systems and platforms like Virtual Places. He quickly became immersed in…

Squirrel - Internal Account Cracking, PW Stealer

Feb 04, 2025 27m

Squirrel recounts experimenting with Visual Basic, creating programs, dabbling in exploits, and cracking OH and Internal accounts by bypassing SecureID via AOL Net Connect. Squirrel also discusses…

Seven - Aim Invader, Exploits, CAN-SPAM

Jan 25, 2025 48m

Seven's journey began with curiosity about a crash exploit, which evolved into mastering programming languages like Visual Basic and C#. Known for creating tools like "AIM Invader" and…

Soloist - From Spammer to Legit Entrepreneur

Jan 08, 2025 54m

Blaine (Soloist) tells us his journey from a kid connecting to local BBSs, finding AOL, learning to program, spamming for an affiliate network, and then finally finding his true passion; building…

ShiZZa OaK (3/3) - Piracy, Exploiting flaws in e-commerce business rules

Sep 16, 2024 32m

We cover music and video piracy and delve in deep into the many websites and schemes ShiZZa OaK was able to probe and exploit for profit. Coupon stacking, gift card re-use, OSX Upgrade disc…

ShiZZa OaK (2/3) - MP3 top sites, Phreaking

Sep 16, 2024 34m

ShiZZa OaK tells us about his switch to IRC and joining one of the first mp3 ripping groups on the scene, Rabid Neurosis (RNS) and hosting an mp3 top site. We also talk about his phone hijinks when…

ShiZZa OaK (1/3) - Warez, 0-days, Trolling MTV, first mp3

Sep 15, 2024 31m

ShiZZa OaK talks about the early days on AOL, getting early access to a Windows 95 Beta CD, 0-day ftp site access, trolling MTV Yack Live and the first mp3 ripped and uploaded to the scene. Guest:…

Spaz - Carding, Social Engineering, Affiliate Networks

Jun 12, 2024 34m

Spaz tells us about his early days dabbling in carding, socially engineering various ISPs, and working with affiliate networks. Guest: Spaz Host: Steve Stonebraker Audio Editor: Sam Fox…

NailZ - AOL IRC Trojan, LuciferX

May 17, 2024 54m

NailZ tells us about Codeine's plan to take over AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Planting trojan's on AOL employee machines and using them to proxy FDO and ATOM to manipulate Merlin and cause chaos on…

Nise - AOL InstaKiss Phishing, PW Cracking, Scrollers

Apr 28, 2024 53m

Nise tells us about cracking, scrollers, phishing, account takeovers, and ruining some people's lives. Later he tells us about how AOL led to him finding his passion for marketing and a book he has…

Sim114 - AOL UK, Love for FDO Forms

Oct 26, 2023 1h 3m

Sam tells us about his experience using AOL UK while coming of age in England. His fascination with visual art began here and he fell in love with FDO (Form Definition Operator) generated content. We…

Broast - Botnet Cracker, Exploits, Digital Gangster

Jul 30, 2023 49m

Broast tells us about writing password stealers, password crackers, deploying botnets, finding exploits, and hacking Digital Gangster and other forums. Guest: Broast Host: Steve…

Pen - Password Stealer Detector, Pen Tools

Jul 29, 2023 24m

Pen tells us about Pen Tools, a password stealer detector he wrote, user interfaces, the warez scene and more. We jump around a bit in this episode (between AOL and not AOL). Also, unfortunately the…

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