hacking

Nearly 10 years ago, a teenager dream became a virtual reality: Back Orifice released by The Cult of The Dead Cow

Basicly, it was a small trojan horse with really simple commands to connect to infected computers on internet. All you needed is a range of ip - national ISP networks were working well - to scan for any open connection and start playing with it. Really useless, but so much fun :-)

Today, CCC has released a documentary about this piece of history:

• Download it [MPEG-4 H.264]
• See information page [german]

Chaos Computer Club is organizing one of these great hacking congress just kilometers away from my holiday paradise. The temptation to spend a wandering day there has reached a peak last night, but I’ll have a better time staying with Chris and getting numeric feedbacks (blogs, podcasts, …) from the show.

Link to event info.

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