lucidphreak

One of the most dead-on articles I've ever read on HN.

Standards and Evaluation pilots are almost like test pilots.. They are expected to stick with their aircraft perhaps a little longer than normal. However, if a pilot has no outside reference to the horizon (the rain storm he was in), and his sensors/instruments are deemed unreliable, I would have done the same thing. Its one thing to lose a jet, which can be replaced - its another to lose a pilot where countless hours of training have been invested ... Sucks for him, but at least he is still flying and gets the pick of the littler for his next assignment. I would assume he will do another tour and then retire. People will be "funny" around him going forward and he will not enjoy the camaraderie that he has grown used to in the Corps.

I run a online form for public consumption where I catalog old school wardialers and other phreaking related programs that were written (mainly) for 8 and 16 bit computers (atari 800, c64/128, Amiga, etc).. Currently I'm using jqwidgets to grab data from an XML file. This could make both the cataloging as well as the display of the data much easier. Will be looking into this soon. I'm curious though if there is a way to skin the output or am I restricted to the aesthetics that are built into the app?

If anyone is interested in the site I mentioned feel free to ask..

Use GoCoEdit on your ipad - its a FANTASTIC code editor with connectivity options that actually work well. ( I have no affiliation with the product - I just find it remarkably well done )..

I don't post here often - but this is freaking BEAUTIFUL.. Thank you for sharing this HN!

Not sure if it includes everything you've mentioned - but for iPad I found GoCoEdit to be about as "killer app" as it could get for an ipad code editor. I mean it blew me away. Not the developer, not associated with the dev or company - I just truly think its a wonderful editor.

I come here for computer security/hacking/telco security related articles - but I have to say this subject is one of the most exciting things today. I would give anything to become part of an entity doing this type of work.

I hope you are part of NPSTN and the various phreaking discord groups.. LOTS of old switching stuff going on there.. some people from Binrev, etc... good to meet you. I probably already know you. :) -lucidphreak

I wanted to comment directly on the page, but I didnt see a way to do so. I am not an assembly language programmer so some of this just glazed my eyes over - but I have to say anything about adventure OR pitfall is gold as far as I'm concerned. Thank you SO much for your article! I hope this ends up on archive.org so it never gets lost...

I saw mention of x.25 in the comments below.. Made me swoon... oh the memories.

didnt work for me... I can connect all day long to some personal servers I have via filezilla (port 21) and in snowflake I just get a spinner and then it fails (and I do modify the port)... I WANT this to work as I like it.. but so far no bueno.

Anyone else with this same issue?