Hacking history: Back Orifice

alx — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:42:20 +0000

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:

23rd Chaos Communication Congress

alx — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:42:20 +0000

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.

Here is the program I had the time to plan for the first day, hope this will be available on the net soon:

10:30: Who Can You Trust? with Tim Pritlove and John Perry Barlow.
11:30: Room 2 event has been deleted from timetable…
12:45: How To Design A Decent User Interface to improve my wonderful catastrophic ability to design UI, or Know Your Citizens in case non-coder Christine was joining.
14:00: The Grim Meathook Future, I think it was the event planned at 11:30.
16:00: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity in Web 2.0
18:30: The gift of sharing

There’s probably a lot of other great conf on schedule during this event in the following days, just have a look at the timetables to know more about this.

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Hacking history: Back Orifice

23rd Chaos Communication Congress