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- AAA - ACCESS ALL AREAS
- Computer Security & Hacking Conference
- 1st - 2nd July, 1995
- (Saturday & Sunday)
- King's College, London, UK
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-
- Written by Scavenger <sca@advantage.co.za>
-
- In march 1995 I got some information about a h/p conference in London.
- Soon I decided to go to it and made plans of a little trip at the first
- July weekend. A friend (Cursor Cowboy) and I booked a 10 days trip.
-
- We arrived on Saturday morning at about 8 am. At first we had to figure
- out where King's College is. Using the underground we went to it and
- met some h/p looking guys. They told us that the conference starts
- at 12 am. One of the guys was a German. After some minutes of chatting
- I asked for his name and it was Blackbird. Haha.. Yeah.. He trampped
- from Germany to London(why not?!). The other guys came from England.
- They had a mobile phone there and I asked them if I could check my VMB
- for new messages(my VMB is an international one with toll free dialups in
- most countries). But hell they told me that they have to pay in UK for
- 0800 numbers (toll free) from an mobile phone - what a bullshit.
- So I tried the kuhl pay phones. They are really handy, you know in Germany
- 99.95 % of the pay fones uses analog dialing and about 40 % are able to
- change to DTMF after analog dialing. All that I tested in London were
- able to change to DTMF using '*'.
-
- Blackbird told the english guys what he did with carding stuff from
- US and how he got busted for it. The guys were really amazed.
- It was about 11 am and I went back to the rotten hotel in
- Sussex (suxx-sex) Garden.
-
- At about 1 pm I got back to the King's College where the conference
- already had started. I payed the the expensive registration of 25 pounds
- (about 40$). They did not except credit cards, even real ones not.
- There were a big conference room and one room with about 10 computers
- that were connected to the Internet. I tried to connect my friend's
- laptop to it and asked the guy who managed the stuff - but no chance.
- The guy had no cable and no ethernet card for us so we had to use the
- other PCs there. I know you think they installed some kind of Unix there
- like Linux - but bull. They ran Windows 3.1 with PPP!
- Yes you read right! Windows 3.1!!! I really had to laugh.
- In the afternoon I met Ganja Man and Cobolt. They also trampped to London
- started on Thursday morning and arrived on Saturday morning(luck).
- After about 30 minutes of IRC Ganja told me that he think the conference
- is getting to the same bullshit as the CHAOS COMMUNICATION CONGRESS'94 -
- but I didn't recognized it in that way. But anyway the whole thing got
- boring and I looked out for some interesting stuff. I went to he
- conference room that was filled with about 300 people, listening to the
- speaker and many journalists, fedz and TV cameras. After listening some
- common things about hacking I met Dr.Fonk from UK. He really recognized
- me well because I wrote him a messages that I wear a green T-shirt with a
- big 'R2' in front and 'Phreaking in the 90's' in the back. We discussed
- some phreaking stuff like the german filters and the BT tricks.
-
- Back in the computer room it got really hot and because the
- air condition did not work. Some rumors were about it that they turn it
- off intentionally. The organizers got some problems with King's College
- because it was wriiten in a newspapern about the conference something
- like 'terrorists and criminals held a conference in King's College'.
- So people from King's College didn't want to loose their acknowledgement
- and tried to stop the conference one days before it started. But they
- had no success in stopping it so they turned off the air condition and
- cutted the internet link of the College. But that were only rumors... .
-
- A problem was that you were watched by TV cameras without your permission
- on Saturday. The dudes were everywhere all and sucked your ass to get kewl
- pictures. Ganja, Cobolt and me told the guys that they need a permission
- if they want to record anything. After some time of fights they followed
- our rules. Now they wanted somebody that is into Internet hacking and shows
- them some tricks. Nobody was interested in getting into TV so they finally
- found an el33t one that showed them some 'kewl hacking tricks'.
- Yeah he hacked into Internet using Trumpet Winsock. I was impressed how
- he clicked the mouse button 2 times on the icon and hacked in using the
- login script. As he tried to break into the Netscape WWW browser he had no
- success... huh... Ok. The TV dudes wanted some more exciting stuff for
- 8their hungry cameras. Now a quick double click on the Paintbrush icon
- and drawing some filled circles and rectangles and then typing in the
- text 'HACKER'. The TV dudes were impressed how the guy el33t guy hacked
- so quickly into the picture. Finally the proud el33t one showed his
- face to the TV guys. I knew this guy was a /<RaD cybaspace haqa.
-
- Time to make some calls from the english pay phones. Some strange things
- happened to me. I made a call to germany using a company that excepts
- credit cards(always useful to have some handy when traveling). All went
- fine. I spoke about 10 minutes and suddenly the line was cutted.
- I got a dialtone again. Shit! So I called the credit card dialup again and
- entered my card...hehe..it was invalid.. 2 minutes later 3 cops came
- but I was going back into the building (where the AAA hp conference was).
- I heard the cops talking about a call using credit cards to germany.
- hehe..I think they already have ANI or something on the lines from
- UK to US.
-
-
- 'Special events' were planned for the duration of the Conference:
- HACK THE BORDERWARE FIREWALL SERVER COMPETITION.
- "The BorderWare Firewall Server(tm) is the complete Internet
- gateway and security system in one. It prevents access by
- unauthorized users to a trusted internal network while giving
- internal users the benefits of full access to the Internet.
- BorderWare Network Technologies Europe will be bringing along
- their BorderWare Firewall Server and challenging anyone to try and
- break through it during the Conference.
- A case of Champagne will be on offer as a prize for any successful
- attempts.
- The Firewall will be connected to the local network, protecting a
- second network and UNIX system running SMTP and the usual network
- services (FTP, Telnet, etc). An attack will be judged successful
- if the Firewall can be penetrated and a file can be retrieved from
- the internal UNIX system."
- You had to get the file /etc/Access from the protected server. I saw some
- guys telneting to the sendmail port and trying some oldskool sendmail bugs.
- The more experienced guys talked to the dude from Borderware and asked
- what they have to do to get the case of Champagne. The trick of Borderware
- was that you had to show them how you hacked the firewall else you didn't
- got the case of Champagne.
- Nobody of the experienced hackers wanted to hack it now. hehe
- Sure, why should you show your tricks to the firewall company, they fix
- it and make big $$$$ out of it. Finally some guys felt free to crash
- the firewall server, why not.
-
- A nasty thing of the organizers was that they installed a sniffer to get
- all entered login/passwords from the users. Now I know why my files on
- one server got deleted. Nasty dudes! If you sniff at an h/p conference you
- must got much into lemmingness.
- Listening to some boring lectures and explaining some guys that bb still
- works I survived the day anyway.
-
- On Sunday somebody spreaded the "0" - MCI backdoor around. The lemmings
- tought they got something kewl and were proud to tell it to everybody.
- There was an interesting lectures. The speaker was BIllsf from Holland.
- He spoke about phreaking, phun with R2, ANI, CALLER ID, ... .
- I think it was the best lectue of the AAA. After his speech Dr.Fonk, I
- and some other guys had a private conversation with him. The main topics
- were C5 protecting techniques, filters and R2.
- In the afternoon I met BaDs & some other guys from England.
- When I saw BaDs later he was always together with a a nice looking girl.
- First I tought she is his girlfriend but she isn't.(h0h0)
- The nice looking girlie was Annaliza Savage. Have a look at
- http://bianca.com/bump/ua/savage.html.
- She made a good film about hackers called Unauthorized Access.
-
- Some lemming made a joke and called up fire brigade. Everybody had to
- leave King's College as they arrived. Anyway they made a really relaxed
- impression. One guy smoked a cigartte as they controlled all rooms.
-
- Rumors were spread around that the next h/p conference will be on some
- ship in greece. Would be nice! eh?
- At all you can say the ACCESS ALL AREAs was bull***t in
- organisation(no workshops,no ..), but anyway my trip to London was nice,
- thank to many good conversations and phun.
-
- Some locations to mention in London:
- The best club:
- The Gardening Club - for kuhl Harthouse & Progressive House
-
- The worst club:
- Club UK on Friday - 3 floors, 3 samples(1 floor - 1 sample) looped the
- whole night for lots of kiddoz
-
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- If you want to contact me write an email to Scavenger <sca@advantage.co.za>
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- greets to: Ganja, Zerial, Omega, Tuf, Bads, Countz, Underflow,
- Mr.Listerique, Ripmax, Daniel, van Hauser, Bspline, Ht, Kokey, Trax...
-
- All guys 'n girls who asked me for the next version of the SCAVENGER-DIALER:
- a non-public beta version will be ready in november & a public
- version will be avaible x-mas
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