========================================================================= Hack-Tic presents H A C K I N G at the E N D of the U N I V E R S E 1993 SUMMER CONGRESS, THE NETHERLANDS ========================================================================= HEU? Remember the Galactic Hacker Party back in 1989? Ever wondered what happened to the people behind it? We sold out to big business, you think. Think again, we're back! That's right. On august 4th, 5th and 6th 1993, we're organising a three-day summer congress for hackers, phone phreaks, programmers, computer haters, data travellers, electro-wizards, networkers, hardware freaks, techno-anarchists, communications junkies, cyberpunks, system managers, stupid users, paranoid androids, Unix gurus, whizz kids, warez dudes, law enforcement officers (appropriate undercover dress required), guerilla heating engineers and other assorted bald, long-haired and/or unshaven scum. And all this in the middle of nowhere (well, the middle of Holland, actually, but that's the same thing) at the Larserbos campground four metres below sea level. The three days will be filled with lectures, discussions and workshops on hacking, phreaking, people's networks, Unix security risks, virtual reality, semafun, social engineering, magstrips, lockpicking, virusses, paranoia, legal sanctions against hacking in Holland and elsewhere and much, much more. English will be the lingua franca for this event, although one or two workshops may take place in Dutch. There will be an Internet connection, an intertent ethernet and social interaction (both electronic and live). Included in the price are four nights in your own tent. Also included are inspiration, transpiration, a shortage of showers (but a lake to swim in), good weather (guaranteed by god), campfires and plenty of wide open space and fresh air. All of this for only 100 dutch guilders (currently around US$70). We will also arrange for the availability of food, drink and smokes of assorted types, but this is not included in the price. Our bar will be open 24 hours a day, as well as a guarded depository for valuables (like laptops, cameras etc.). You may even get your stuff back! For people with no tent or air matress: you can buy a tent through us for 100 guilders, a matress costs 10 guilders. You can arrive from 17:00 (that's five p.m. for analogue types) on August 3rd. We don't have to vacate the premises until 12:00 noon on Saturday, August 7 so you can even try to sleep through the devastating Party at the End of Time (PET) on the closing night (live music provided). We will arrange for shuttle buses to and from train stations in the vicinity. HOW? Payment: Just bring cash and you can pay at the door. We prefer 100 dutch guilders, but we also accept US$, DM, and british pounds at fairly normal rates. HA! Very Important: Bring many guitars and laptops. ME? Yes, you! Busloads of alternative techno-freaks from all over the planet will descend on this event. You wouldn't want to miss that, now, would you? Maybe you are part of that select group that has something special to offer! Participating in 'Hacking at the End of the Universe' is exciting, but organising your very own part of it is even more fun. We already have a load of interesting workshops and lectures scheduled, but we're always on the lookout for more. We're also still in the market for people who want to help us organize during the congress. In whatever way you wish to participate, call, write, e-mail or fax us soon, and make sure your money gets here on time. Space is limited. SO: - 4th, 5th and 6th of August - Hacking at the End of the Universe (a hacker summer congress) - ANWB groepsterrein Larserbos Zeebiesweg 47 8219 PT Lelystad The Netherlands - Cost: fl. 100,- (+/- 70 US$) per person (including 4 nights in your own tent) MORE INFO: Hack-Tic Postbus 22953 1100 DL Amsterdam The Netherlands tel : +31 20 6001480 fax : +31 20 6900968 E-mail : heu@hacktic.nl VIRUS: If you know a forum or network that you feel this message belongs on, by all means slip it in. Echo-areas, your favorite bbs, /etc/motd, IRC, WP.BAT, you name it. Spread the worm, uh, word. ========================================================================= SCHEDULE day 0 August 3rd, 1993 ===== 16:00 You are welcome to set up your tent 19:00 Improvised Dinner day 1 August 4th, 1993 ===== 11:00-12:00 Opening ceremony 12:00-13:30 Workshops 14:00-15:30 Workshops 15:30-18:00 'Networking for the Masses' 16:00-18:00 Workshops 19:00-21:00 Dinner 21:30-23:00 Workshops day 2 August 5th, 1993 ===== 11:30-13:00 Workshops 14:00-17:00 Phreaking the Phone 14:00-17:00 Workshops 17:30-19:00 Workshops 19:00-21:00 Dinner day 3 August 6th, 1993 ===== 11:30-13:00 Workshops 14:00-17:00 Hacking (and) The Law 14:00-17:00 Workshops 18:00-19:00 Closing ceremony 19:00-21:00 Barbeque 21:00-??:?? Party at the End of Time (Live Music) day 4 August 7th, 1993 ===== 12:00 All good things come to an end ========================================================================= 'Networking for the masses', Wednesday August 4th 1993, 15:30 One of the main discussions at the 1989 Galactic Hacker Party focused on whether or not the alternative community should use computer networking. Many people felt a resentment against using a 'tool of oppression' for their own purposes. Computer technology was, in the eyes of many, something to be smashed rather than used. Times have changed. Many who were violently opposed to using computers in 1989 have since discovered word-processing and desktop publishing. Even the most radical groups have replaced typewriters with PCs. The 'computer networking revolution' has begun to affect the alternative community. Not all is well: many obstacles stand in the way of the 'free flow of information.' Groups with access to information pay such high prices for it that they are forced to sell information they'd prefer to pass on for free. Some low-cost alternative networks have completely lost their democratic structure. Is this the era of the digital dictator, or are we moving towards digital democracy? To discuss these and other issues, we've invited the following people who are active in the field of computer networking: [Electronic mail addresses for each of the participants are shown in brackets.] Ted Lindgreen (ted@nluug.nl) is managing director of nlnet. Nlnet is the largest commercial TCP/IP and UUCP network provider in the Netherlands. Peter van der Pouw Kraan (peter@hacktic.nl) was actively involved in the squat-movement newsletters 'Bluf!' and 'NN' and has outspoken ideas about technology and its relation to society. Had a PC all the way back in 1985! Maja van der Velden (maja@agenda.hacktic.nl) is from the Agenda Foundation which sets up and supports communication and information projects. Joost Flint (joost@aps.hacktic.nl) is from the Activist Press Service. APS has a bbs and works to get alternative-media and pressure groups online. Felipe Rodriquez (nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl) is from the Hack-Tic Network which grew out of the Dutch computer underground and currently connects thousands of people to the global Internet. Andre Blum (zabkar@roana.hacktic.nl), is an expert in the field of wireless communications. Eelco de Graaff (Eelco.de.Graaff@p5.f1.n281.z2.fidonet.org) is the nethost of net 281 of FidoNet, EchoMail troubleshooter, and one of the founders of the Dutch Fidonet Foundation. Michael Polman (michael@antenna.nl) of the Antenna foundation is a consultant in the field of international networking. He specialises in non-governmental networks in the South. Alfred Heitink (alfred@antenna.nl) is a social scientist specializing in the field of computer-mediated communication as well as system manager at the Dutch Antenna host. Rena Tangens (rena@bionic.zer.de), was involved in the creation of the Bionic Mailbox in Bielefeld (Germany) and the Zerberus mailbox network. She is an artist and wants to combine art and technology. The discussion will be led by freelance radiomaker and science journalist Herbert Blankesteyn. He was involved in the 'Archie' children's bbs of the Dutch VPRO broadcasting corporation. ========================================================================= 'Phreaking the Phone', Thursday August 5th 1993, 14:00 Your own telephone may have possibillities you never dreamed possible. Many years ago people discovered that one could fool the telephone network into thinking you were part of the network and not just a customer. As a result, one could make strange and sometimes free phonecalls to anywhere on the planet. A subculture quickly formed. The phone companies got wise and made a lot of things (nearly) impossible. What is still possible today? What is still legal today? What can they do about it? What are they doing about it? Billsf (bill@tech.hacktic.nl) and M. Tillman, a few of the worlds best phreaks, will introduce the audience to this new world. Phone phreaks from many different countries will exchange stories of succes and defeat. Your life may never be the same. ========================================================================= 'Hacking (and) The Law', Friday August 6th, 14:00 You can use your own computer and modem to access some big computer system at a university without the people owning that computer knowing about it. For years this activity was more or less legal in Holland: if you were just looking around on the Internet and didn't break anything nobody really cared too much... That is, until shortly before the new computer crime law went into effect. Suddenly computer hackers were portrayed as evil 'crashers' intent on destroying systems or, at least, looking into everyone's files. The supporters of the new law said that it was about time something was done about it. Critics of the law say it's like hunting mosquitoes with a machine-gun. They claim the aforementioned type of hacking is not the real problem and that the law is excessively harsh. To discuss these issues we've invited a panel of experts, some of whom are, or have been, in touch with the law in one way or another. Harry Onderwater (fridge@cri.hacktic.nl), is technical EDP auditor at the Dutch National Criminal Intelligence Service (CRI) and is responsible for combatting computer crime in the Netherlands. He says he's willing to arrest hackers if that is what it takes to make computer systems secure. Prof. Dr. I.S. (Bob) Herschberg (herschbe@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl), gained a hacker's control over his first system 21 years ago and never ceased the good work. Now lecturing, teaching and publishing on computer insecurity and imprivacy at the technical university in Delft. His thesis: 'penetrating a system is not perpetrating a crime'. Ronald 'RGB' O. (rgb@utopia.hacktic.nl) has the distinction of being the only Dutch hacker arrested before and after the new law went into effect. He is a self-taught UNIX security expert and a writer for Hack-Tic Magazine. Ruud Wiggers (ruudw@cs.vu.nl), system manager at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, has for 10 years been trying to plug holes in system security. He was involved in the RGB arrest. Andy Mueller-Maguhn (andy@cccbln.ccc.de) is from the Chaos Computer Club in Germany. Eric Corley (emmanuel@eff.org) a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein is editor of the hacker publication '2600 magazine'. The first person to realize the huge implications of the government crackdown on hackers in the US. Winn Schwartau (wschwartau@mcimail.com) is a commercial computer security advisor as well as the author of the book 'Terminal Compromise'. His new book entitled 'Information Warfare' has just been released. Ray Kaplan (kaplan@bpa.arizona.edu) is a computer security consultant. He is constantly trying to bridge the gap between hackers and the computer industry. He organizes 'meet the enemy' sessions where system managers can teleconference with hackers. Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl) is a systems expert at the Technical University in Eindhoven. He is the author of some very well known utilities to monitor hacking on unix systems. He has a healthy suspicion of anything technical. Peter Klerks (klerks@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl) is a scientist at the centre for the study of social antagonism at the Leiden University. He has studied the Dutch police force extensively, and is author of the book 'Counterterrorism in the Netherlands.' Don Stikvoort (stikvoort@surfnet.nl), one of the computer security experts for the Dutch Academic Society and chairman of CERT-NL (Computer Emergency Response Team). He is also actively involved in SURFnet network management. Rop Gonggrijp (rop@hacktic.nl) was involved in some of the first computer break-ins in the Netherlands during the 80's and is now editor of Hack-Tic Magazine. The discussion will be led by Franscisco van Jole (fvjole@hacktic.nl), journalist for 'De Volkskrant'. ========================================================================= WORKSHOPS HEUnet introduction an introduction to the Hacking at the End of the Universe network. Jumpstart to VR, 3D world-building on PC's Marc Bennett, editor of Black Ice magazine, will explain how to design worlds on your own PC which can be used in Virtual Reality systems. Replacing MS/DOS, Running UNIX on your own PC People who are already running unix on their PCs will tell you what unix has to offer and they'll talk about the different flavours in cheap or free unix software available. Unix security RGB and fidelio have probably created more jobs in the unix security business than the rest of the world put together. They'll talk about some of the ins and outs of unix security. 'User Authorization Failure' A quick introduction to the VAX/VMS Operating System for those that consider a carreer in VMS security. 'The right to keep a secret' Encryption offers you the chance to really keep a secret, and governments know it. They want you to use locks that they have the key to. The fight is on! 'Virus about to destroy the earth!'. Don't believe the hype! What is the real threat of computer viruses? What technical possibilities are there? Are we being tricked by a fear-machine that runs on the money spent on anti-virus software? 'It came out of the sky' 'Receiving pager information and what not to do with it'. Information to pagers is sent through the air without encryption. Rop Gonggrijp and Bill Squire demonstrate a receiver that picks it all up and present some spooky scenarios describing what one could do with all that information. Cellular phones and cordless phones How do these systems work, what frequencies do they use, and what are the differences between different systems world-wide? Zen and the art of lock-picking. In this workshop The Key will let you play with cylinder locks of all types and tell you of ingenious ways to open them. "Doesn't mean they're not after you" The secret services and other paranoia. Audio Adventures Steffen Wernery and Tim Pritlove talk about adventure games that you play using a Touch Tone telephone. Wireless LAN (Data Radio) How high a data rate can you pump through the air, and what is still legal? Social Engineering The Dude, well known from his articles in Hack-Tic, will teach you the basics of social engineering, the skill of manipulating people within burocracies. 'Hacking Plastic' Tim and Billsf talk about the security risks in chip-cards, magnetic cards, credit cards and the like. Antenna Host Demo The Antenna Foundation is setting up and supporting computer networks, mainly in the South. They are operating a host system in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and they will demonstrate it in this workshop, and talk about their activities. APS Demo APS (Activist Press Service) is operating a bbs in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You'll see it and will be able to play with it 'hands-on'. 'Hocking the arts' Marc Marc and Benten are computer artists. They present some of their work under the motto: Hocking the arts, demystifying without losing its magic contents. Public Unix Demo Demonstrating the Hack-Tic xs4all public unix, as well as other public unix systems. Packet Radio Demo Showing the possiblities of existing radio amateur packet radio equipment to transport packets of data over the airwaves. ========================================================================= COMPUTERS AT 'HACKING AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE' This will get a little technical for those who want to know what we're going to set up. If you don't know much about computers, just bring whatever you have and we'll see how and if we can hook it up. We're going to have ethernet connected to Internet (TCP/IP). You can connect by sitting down at one of our PC's or terminals, by hooking up your own equipment (we have a depository, so don't worry about theft), or by using one of the few 'printerport <--> ethernet' adapters and hooking up laptops and notebooks that way. There may be a small fee involved here, we don't know what they're going to cost us. Contact us for details, also if you have a few of these adapters lying around. There will also be serial ports you can connect to using a nullmodem cable. You can log in to our UNIX system(s) and send and receive mail and UseNet news that way. Every participant that wants one can get her/his own IP number to use worldwide. Users of the network are urged to make whatever files they have on their systems available to others over the ethernet. Bring anything that has a power cord or batteries and let's network it! ========================================================================= AMSTERDAM'S FREE RADIO STATIONS BROADCAST LIVE The three free radios from the city of Amsterdam will have a shared (and improvised) lo-tec studio at Hacking at the End of the Universe. Every day between 17:00 and 19:00 they will provide live programming to their audiences in Amsterdam. If you have important audio material, (soundscapes, interviews, etc.) bring it (on cassette) so they can put it on the air. If you wish to participate in the programming, just bring your recorder with microfone. ========================================================================= HOW TO GET THERE? Hacking at the End of the Universe takes place at the Larserbos Campground, Zeebiesweg 47, Lelystad. The site is about 5 km southeast of Lelystad. Lelystad itself is a 34 minute (direct) trainride away from Amsterdam. From there you can take bus 107 which leaves: 06:11 06:41 07:11 07:27 07:41 08:11 08:41 09:11 09:41 10:41 11:41 12:41 13:41 14:41 15:41 16:41 17:41 18:41 19:41 21:41 and takes about fifteen minutes to get you to the 'Larserbos' stop, within 3 km of the site. From there it's a 20 minute walk (one straight road, follow the signs). We have a rental van and we'll be picking up people that arrive by bus. There will probably be a 'Hacking at the End of the Universe' courtesy-telephone at the bus stop. Bus 107 can also be taken from Harderwijk (in the other direction). If you come by car it's easy enough: just follow the A6 highway, take the Lelystad exit and follow our signs. -- Rop Gonggrijp (rop@hacktic.nl) fax: +31 20 6900968 voice: +31 20 6001480