Email Scam that FOOLED THE PENTAGON
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
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When the Y2K bug didn’t trigger the apocalypse at the end of the 20th Century, the world quickly moved on from the prospect of a computer glitch that could destroy modern society. Little did we know that a poorly-coded "Love Letter" virus would soon appear in email inboxes around the globe and cause BILLIONS of dollars in damage. So where did this virus come from? Who was behind it all?
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The word “kindly” is the biggest red flag
Ah yes, a harmless prank that steals people passwords and renders their computers useless and spreads at rapid fire pace
And deletes possibly irreplacable files and pictures for no reason at all.
Since i found this channel 2 weeks ago, I've been on a binge.
Great stuff.
Im a Filipino and I remember this all too well. I was just about to graduate from high school and there are reps from colleges going to our school to entice students. The reps from the AMA where Onel studied are so zealous and proud that he studied at their alma mater. They are even using his story to lure us into enrolling, lol.
I will say the Y2K scare was absolutely a real thing. But IT companies basically wrote new programming in order to let it switch to 2000 instead of 1900. Which would have crashed everything. My dad who owns a computer company was gone all of New Year’s Eve helping write software. So that it didn’t happen.
So I can only assume other companies were doing the same
It could have been a big problem... but everyone knew that, and worked on fixing it before it became a problem. I still see some people with the ridiculous take that the money spent to prevent the issue was a waste... to me that's like saying fire insurance is a waste of money because your house never caught on fire. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We'll see what happens in 2038 when unix timestamps (used very widely in software) overflow into negative values in all apps compiled in 32-bit mode. Which I assume a lot of government/bank/etc computers still run. It's equally as bad as Y2K, probably worse.
It's fair enough to think he didn't expect his virus to go global but if it was a prank or a harmless proof of his skills, he wouldn't have needed to delete people's files on their computers; that was just spiteful.
Definitely! It’s sad to see justice wasn’t delivered and basically got off Scott free
“Pranks” aren’t necessarily harmless.
This channel is a gold mine
That’s what the Love letter say!
YES! omg i just discovered it and am currently binging lol
I had a vague memory of the Love Bug in the news, this was so enlightening! Thank you mucly 👌
So I have been binging your content lately, and just went to give you a thumbs up. Saw only 580 and thought "wow this video must be brand new!"
How do you only have 60k subs?? Man, you are absolutely killing this format. Everything about your content - the structure and pacing, the delivery and milieu - is seriously top notch. Keep at it and you're going to pop off soon my friend... I look forward to it.
Stories like this really put into perspective why so many elderly people are irrationally terrified of viruses. I have known ones who wouldn't even open emails unless they had someone look at it first.
A classic example of what happens when great ambition gets left unchecked. Too bad he didn’t listen to his professor, but at least he’s learned his lesson. Shame he couldn’t go work for anti-virus software companies. His talents would have been welcomed had he channeled his skills ethically early on.
Honestly I think he had potential but wasn't actually very talented, he just happened to be passionate about computing at a time when tech literacy was low. As was said in the video, the virus was cobbled together from other bits of malware and made no real effort to hide itself. Fortunately it was easy to stop because on a technical level it wasn't anything special, it just happened to spread quickly because of a clever bit of social engineering.
Man i am so hyped for new uploads!
It’s like modern Frankenstein. He created a creature, almost immediately regretted it, and then tried to run from it as it wrecked havoc. That said, I genuinely believe he didn’t (or couldn’t?) predict the magnitude of the damage his worm would do. Big lesson to learn, and I think he faced enough consequences. If it hadn’t been him, it would have been someone else who made a massive worm and triggered the creation of new laws and cybersecurity practises. Jail time would have done nothing but drain taxpayer money, idk why people think he should’ve done time.
I really wish he didn't corrupt the files or steal passwords, just infected the PCs and did something mildly annoying, like adding a popup that you have to close every couple minutes. He'd be a legend. Then again some copycats would change it to go for maximum damage anyway.
lets go! I've been waiting for the upload. Another banger as always guys. Well done!
I was studying in the same school when this happened, didn't get the virus but boy were there a ton of media from all over the globe. On the aspect of pinoys being proud of the virus, probably true for some part of the population but definitely not all.
"SPAM didn't really exist yet."
Um... yes. Yes it did. There was a lot of it.
Good morning, beautiful people!
Night here, but hello beautiful person to yourself! Gonna go sleep now, goodnight. ❤️
@@ErectedGasCan I hope you had a great day! Sleep well my friend
@@BucketHeadianHagg I had a good day, thank you! Getting ready for bed once again.
Hope you had a good day as well!
It's just a prank bro
The prank: wipe out all your life's work 💀
I think a modern virus could do some big damage using the same idea of human interaction + system loopholes, is def a winning combination.
Always a good day when an amglimpse video gets posted 🤘
I'm so proud of this GENIUS!
😂😂😂
Putting the Philippines on the map (tho not very good)!!!
I'm sorry, but the judge should have thrown the book at him.
but what if he misses and someone gets hurt 🤷🏻♂️ then the judge would be charged with assault 😏
Thank you for the amazing content amglimpse. I can't believe that this video has just 593 likes as I type. Keep going brother.
Great stuff.
I like that even in the good old dial up days "Kindly" was a favorite of mischevious potatoes
If only they had renewed their McAfee trial
What an embarrassing vworm at least there was no actual love letter.
I hope all he's doing with phones is fixing them, I really hope he never steals information again but he holds temptation in his hands all day at work.
Interesting story, great storytelling!
i remember backing up files on hard discs - automatically - because nothing was guaranteed.
Y2K was a real thing. If it wasn't for computer engineer's working frantically to stop it from happening.
I remember my dad got the email, it was sent from his friend Ted and he figured it was a joke. He actually wrote Ted back and said he didn't get the joke lol
Wild they got no punishment, but the internet was really the wild west back then. I think overall it was a net positive in the end, I made people wake up to simplicity of viruses back then and shined a light on the weak points of the internet security.
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Your videos are awesome. New sub
Excellence content as usual!
Before the internet, Herpes was the love bug
I didn't expect the comment section to side against the hacker.
What an asshole. Stealing from people and testing it out on his friend and then pinning it on his sisters boyfriend. Definitly should have been locked up.
Took me a min to remember what it was referring to, almost feel quaint nowaday
🛌 Babe wake up! Amglimpse uploaded
He might not be a criminal but he definitely was an asshole
Very cool, I was too young to know what this was or know much about it at the time but hearing about it later in my life was always so interesting - Was essentially the spark in which created Anti Virus and Cyber Security
I remember when this happened to me. I immediately got a chub when I saw the love letter from this coworker chick that was totes mega bangable. However, seconds later, I immediately went limp with sadness.
PHILIPPINES MENTIONED
**holds Tanduay and Kulafu**
took some scrolling to find this
AMA mentioned too
Nice video
you have no idea how much I needed a good distraction rn thank you for the consistently great vids
You've amazing content, but the titles don't exactly tell us if it intrigues us, i would've watched this vid way way sooner. Take some inspiration from disrupt, who've made the same vid, and you'll reach newfound levels of success!!
new video letsss go
Excellent content. The Title "All You Need is Lov" is a bit aloof and could be more punchy / straight to the point
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I'm watching this may 4
Awww yiss
Nah lock him up.
He purposely and specifically attacked my property, causing the permanent loss of my sentimental files.
It's no different to him breaking into my house 20 years ago and physically smashing up my computer with a cricket bat.
If he wasn't hiding away in an impoverished foreign country, he'd have been brought to justice.
I hate to sound like a know-it-all, but 2000 was actually the end of the 20th century. The 21st century started January 1st, 2001. Don’t feel bad though. It’s a common mistake.
Y2k "bug"? What "bug" are you referring to?
So, by the mid 90’s, a lot of important shit (banks, power grids, airlines, the military and its weaponry, NASA, etc,.) was already being run through computers.
However, there was a weird algorithmic issue that computers would do once the years went from 1999 to 2000, sometimes just going back to 1900 while other times doing a bit more. It was something that was brought up back in the 70’s-80’s, but would especially be a big deal once the year 2000 got closer and closer.
The fear was that it would be significant enough to crash and harm many computer systems, potentially ending the world as we knew it. Lots of doomsday prophets and “Y2K Protection” services (legit or not) popped up, as well as efforts to try and fix it as soon as possible. It didn’t help that many people were jumping into home computing faster and faster by the late 90’s.
Fortunately, once the clock turned, the world went on. Some issues here and there (like simple 1900 date changes in schools that were easy to fix) popped up, but nothing serious.
I'm old. 💀
There was a bug in computer software that made them not handle the transition to the year 2000 properly. So, everything from personal computers to nuclear power plants had to crunch to fix this, otherwise everything would not work. People were full on panicked and the media pushed this hard.
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Better immersion with no face cam, hella content!
Understandable, but I feel this might have more to do with the rise in AI content farms, and many RUclips channels wanting to distinguish themselves from content thieves and faceless AI channels.
@@Punyulada I see, thinking ahead. Good!
One day you’ll get a good mic. ‘S’ all I’m hearing. Hiss harder.
LETS INSERT MY FACE FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON -glory hound channel owner
Talk faster
videos are better with no face cam imo
Isn’t it a little early in the season for you to be trying out for “Asshole Of The Year?”
Just a theory, but with a rise in faceless AI content farms, I think this is a growing "trend" to reassure the audiences that his channel isn't AI-generated.
I had a feeling that he + a team behind him run the channel, but this is great for people who don't want to support content thieves.
Another video on an old, overdone topic. Man are you ever going to cover an original story?
dont watch it then, dweeb
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