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Green painting of a dollar sign reading L0pht @stake above a DVD shelf on brick

‘Nothing’s Going to Last Forever’: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 4

As the 1990s drew to a close, the curtain was coming down on the L0pht, as well. Security companies were helping to fuel the first dot-com boom, and venture capitalists and investors took the place of the law enforcement agencies that once circled the group. The L0pht members considered their options: continue as an independent…

DENNIS FISHER · JUL 24 · 9 min

Thirty Minutes Or Less: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 3

DENNIS FISHER · JUL 24 · 9 min

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‘Microsoft Was Freaking Out’: An Oral History of the L0pht, Part 2

DENNIS FISHER · JUL 24 · 11 min

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JUL 24

‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1

In the beginning, there was a hat factory. Factory is probably too grand a word for it, but the space that would eventually become the first home of L0pht Heavy Industries began as the location of a hat-making business. The second-floor spot in a building in Boston’s South End was where the wives of two of the…

Dennis Fisher · 15 min