Skyper

You would go to the domain registrar.

In this example, it was a French one, gandhi.net.

And you would initiate a domain transfer.

And it would ask you that you need the authorization code to transfer it.

And you would

right click on the webpage and save a few source code of the webpage and the authorization code would be written there in a hidden HTML tag, in a form tag.

And that was all you needed back then to do hacking.

But you also have to put this into perspective.

Back then, not many browsers had a feature to actually view the source code.

So HERT stands for the Hackers Emergency Response Team.

And HERT was founded around the same time when the CERTs were founded, the Computer Emergency Response Team.

And it was meant to be a counterweight to the

CERT because the community felt that often the CERT, the computer emergency response team, didn't really know what they were doing and the publications were often not technically correct.

And so the community created the hackers emergency response team where the hackers published their version of the vulnerability and their exploits and their assessment of the risk.

And yeah, that was what CERT was.

And TESOL was a German slash Austrian hacker group who later became more internationally and went by the name of Team TESOL.

And then I spent many days and many nights to recreate all the articles.

I put them in an SQL database so it was searchable and copied all the data.

I created the webpage.

And then put it online and then called Mike Schiffman, who was the editor-in-chief back then.