History of AOL Warez

Re:History of AOL Warez by bearbearbear on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:19PM (#15674826)

We used to trade overhead accounts.

Overhead accounts were subaccounts of AOL employees.

There were different levels of administrative ability with different types of OH accounts.

There was also an employee version of AOL that had special menus to perform administrative functions.

For a while I had a L3 OH which let me create sub accounts under anyone's account without their knowledge, log any screen name off with the click of a button, boot people from chat rooms and disable accounts.

Unfortunately I got cocky (I was 15 so what'd you expect) and booted a catcwatch account, which of course immediately disabled my OH account.

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Re:History of AOL Warez by ryanmerket on Saturday November 11, 2017 @12:27AM (#15675128)

Same. But I got my parents account banned for phishing OH accounts on sub-account. Those were the days.

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Re:History of AOL Warez by strictnein on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:21PM (#15674830)

Really interesting. What's a "catcwatch" account?

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Re:History of AOL Warez by distantsounds on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:40PM (#15675019)

CATwatch accounts were employees that specifically trolled around the system looking for problematic users and activity. Trying to get their accounts in trouble is like attempting to call the cops, on the cops themselves.

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