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But, of course, home NAT routers weren't a thing until people started using cable and DSL and having multiple computers sharing the same Internet connection.

At the very least they'd have to spear-phish you into running a trojan now. Even the most dirt simple of NAT routers would prevent some rando from over the Internet mounting your HDD via Samba. but in this case, it would have prevented this attack. And, of course, IRC networks back then had no concept of shrouds, so you could just find somebody on IRC, get their IP, and start hitting their open ports! A lot of people will vehemently say that a NAT router isn't a proper substitute for a real firewall.

You'd dial in to your ISP, and the IP would be directly assigned to your PC. Mounting somebody's hard drive through Samba over the open Internet! Of course, this was back in the days of dialup, when everyone's desktop computer had a public IP address. Such an invasion of privacy is ridiculous, but this is what transpired. Pretty clever, right? Regardless, he did this and not only was he able to retrieve the NESticle source code, he was able to look through all of his drives. MindRape was then able to mount Sardu's hard drive (since drive sharing was enabled) with Samba.

He made the mistake of leaving drive sharing on (which should not have been on by default, but for some reason, it was on). > How did he steal the source code? Sardu was running Windows 95 at the time. It's genuinely hard to imagine a world where ripping your own CDs to MP3 was considered "grey area information" that you wouldn't want to "touch with a ten foot pole". It lies somewhere between the realm of legal and illegal. > What exactly is grey area information, you may ask? It is information that many people would rather not touch with a ten foot pole. They had sections on their website dedicated to such things as Audio Piracy information (the ripping of CD-DA Audio Tracks and compression to the MPEG-2 Layer 3 audio format), Their main goal, so they said, was to free as much information as possible, for, as the saying goes, information wants to be free. > Damaged Cybernetics was a general grey-area information group. It's just absolutely fantastic how much the world has changed since this article was written.