System7

System7 was first thought up by Jouser (a member of The Mob). He had an extremely large private collection of computer security files. After he consulted Tophat (leader of The Mob), they decided it would be a good child project for The Mob if they released the file archive as a free and public library of information. System7.Org was originally released around March of 1999 after 4 months of work by Jouser, procload (hometown friend of Jouser), & Tophat getting the site ready. The original site, as you may or may not remember, was entirely coded in html. This was a long and monotonous task. We had thousands of files that had to be indexed in html in order to easily navigate the site. We had to run every file to make sure it was legit, provide a description, and to make sure it wasn’t malicious.

After a slow start, System7 finally began to pick up real momentum after 3 months of being open to the public. Because of System7’s content, it has had a roller coaster history of hosting. It finally took up what seemed to be a permanent residence at asswipe.net. After a long period of running well System7 lost its asswipe host. It seemed as though the admin of asswipe dot net (dem0nseed) was busy with a real life so it was time for S7 to move on. At System7’s peak, it was generating over a thousand unique hits a day and serving up millions of bytes of information to the public regularly.

System7 then teamed up with SpaceCom5. One of sc5’s friends tipped off Jouser saying that the site S7 had been stolen by someone and mass produced on CD’s. This CD was called Hackers Toolkit v2.0. You can find this CD at any local computer show and it is being sold between $10-$15. The staff of System7 tried to contact the publisher of Hackers Toolkit but all of the leads were dead ends. Someone was and still is making money off of System7, and it’s not us. Please boycott all editions of The Hackers Toolkit.

When System7 partnered with SpaceCom5 there were big plans in the works. We were going to split up into two HP sites. One would cater to win32 platforms and the other unix. However, things didn’t turn out so well. While S7 was being hosted at SpaceCom5 there was a mutual dispute between Jouser and the adminstrator of SC5. Due to unreconsiable differences, we were forced to go looking for a new host for System7.

After losing the SpaceCom5 host a member of The Mob, sodium, began to host us. With his help we were able to serve more people again and build back up our userbase. After a while the site again generated to much traffic on his connection and we were forced into taking the site down.

After sodium’s hosting, Jouser started to host the site on his cable modem. There was no way that a cable modem could support a site of this magnitude with Jouser’s 35kbps upload cap. Jouser tried to run the site as often as possible but sometimes it had to be taken offline because it completely hosed his private connection. Jouser finally decided he couldn’t continue hosting the page and put up a host wanted ad on S7. All hope was not lost because during the summer of 2002 sodium, from The Mob, e-mailed Jouser stating he had found a new host for System7. This host turned out to lead S7 into a new era…

We have a great new incredibly fast host now who we plan to stay with for as long as possible. We have finished the new System7.org, with a brand new homegrown PHP/MySQL system. With this new system powering the site it will make System7 better than ever before. Although we have limited the amount of files you are able to download per day, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Now you are able to be a member of System7 for free. There is a basic membership that will let you download 3 files per day (subject to change) and be able to post in the computer security forum (once finished). Also we plan on adding an improved membership service for those who donate a small amount of money to S7. Some ideas planned for the premium accounts are: download more files per day than the average user, have your own Syste7.org email address, submit files to the archive, and be able to post in the members only forum. We have also added two new suprise sections to S7 for the grand re-opening which we hope everyone will love.

We hope that you will join us as we continue to grow.