History of Hacking

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History of Old School Hacking Matt Harasymczuk
2011-05-10

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Matt Harasymczuk
• http://www.matt.harasymczuk.pl

• matt@harasymczuk.pl

• MBP sp. z o.o, Software Engineer

• Poznan University of Technology, Network Engineer (intern)

• Consdata.pl, Network Administrator

• Hera sp. z o.o, Software Engineer

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deﬁnitions

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Phreaking
• phone hacking

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Carding
• credit card hacking

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ﬂame war

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hacker vs cracker
• good guys

• programers

• activists

• developers
• bad guys

• programmers

• vandals

• thieves

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"hackers build things, crackers break them."

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white hat vs black hat

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in real world it is a bit fuzzy

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Blue Box
• 2600 Hz

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Black Box
• Attached to phone

• at the both sides

• if oﬀ-the-hook

• toll free call

• used in BBS

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Red Box
• any recorder or player

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Dial-up modem
• 300 bodów

• 28kbps

• 56kbps

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old school hackers

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Alan Turing
• mathematician,
logician,cryptanalyst and computer
scientist

• Turing machine

• cracked Enigma machine

• 1952, illegal homosexual acts

• chemical castration

• suicide cyanide poisoning

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Konrad Zuse
• German engineer and computer
pioneer

• 1941, world's ﬁrst functional
program-controlled Turing-complete
computer, the Z3

• ﬁrst high-level programming
language

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Grace Hopper
• one of the first programmers of the
Harvard Mark I

• developed the first compiler

• COBOL

• Found first BUG

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Donald Knuth
• Professor Emeritus

• Computer Scientist

• The Art of Computer Programming

• Stanford University

• "father" of the analysis of
algorithms

• creator of the TeX

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Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Dutch computer scientist

• 1972 Turing Award

• shortest path-algorithm a.k.a
“Dijkstra's algorithm”

• ALGOL

• Reverse Polish Notation, Shunting
yard algorithm, Banker's algorithm,

• Dining philosophers problem

• 1968 article "A Case against the GO
TO Statement”

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Dennis Richie and Ken Tomphson Unix creators

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Ed Gould
• one of the creators of BSD Unix

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John Draper
• a.k.a. “Capitan Crunch”

• Phreaker

• 1971 in Cap’n Crunch cereal whistle

• emits a 2600 hertz tone

• when 2nd hole was glued up

• created Blue Box

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Steve Wozniak
• a.k.a. “Woz”

• co-founded Apple Computer

• blue boxes

• created Apple I

• ﬁrst Personal Computer

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Steve Jobs
• co-founder of Apple inc.

• saw potential in mouse-driven GUI

• founded NeXT in 1984

• CEO of Apple since 1997

• Jobs experimented with
psychedelics

• calling his LSD experiences "one of
the two or three most important
things [he had] done in [his] life".

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William Henry Gates III
• a.k.a. “Bill”

• Microsoft

• wrote his ﬁrst computer program on
ASR-33 Teletype terminal

• 1975 at MITS Altair 8800 based on
the Intel 8080 CPU

• distribute the interpreter as Altair
BASIC

• Sold MS-DOS to IMB for $50k

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Paul Allen
• Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill
Gates

• in 1975, and began marketing a
BASIC

• In 1980, after promising to deliver
IBM a DOS

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Kevin Mitnick
• a.k.a. “Condor”

• Social Engineer

• arrested in 1995

• hacked into Digital Equipment
Corporation systems, Nokia,
Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens and
many others.

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Larry Wall
• Perl in 1987

• author of path program

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Tsutomu Shimomura
• was hacked by Kevin Mitnick

• help the FBI to capture him

• Shimomura out-hacked Mitnick to
bring him down

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Robert Morris
• professor at MIT

• created Morris Worm

• ﬁrst computer worm

• co-founded the online store known
by the name Viaweb, one of the ﬁrst
web-based applications, with Paul
Graham

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Ian Murphy
• a.k.a. "Captain Zap"

• in 1981

• ﬁrst person ever arrested for a
computer crime

• hacked into AT&T's computers and
changed their internal clocks

• People suddenly received late-night
discounts in the afternoon

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Kevin Poulsen
• a.k.a. “Dark Dante”

• former black hat hacker

• takeover of the KIIS-FM phone lines

• 102nd caller and win the prize of a
Porsche 944 S2

• taught himself lock picking

• America's best-known cyber-
criminals

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Linus Torvalds
• Father of linux kernel

• git

• His M.Sc. thesis was titled Linux: A
Portable Operating System.

• 35 patents worldwide

• Linus’ Law: "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow"

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• a.k.a. “TimBL”

• British physicist,computer scientist
and MIT professor

• invented the World Wide Web

• director of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C)

• Berners-Lee was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering
work

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Gary McKinnon
• a.k.a. “Solo”

• Scottish systems administrator

• has been accused of the biggest
military computer hack of all time

• hacking into 97

• NASA, the US Army, US Navy,
Department of Defense and the US
Air Force computers

• Feb 2001 to Mar 2002

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Raphael Gray
• 19 when he hacked computer
systems

• Jan and Feb 1999

• published details of over 6,500
credit cards

• using an £800 computer

• sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates

• arrested in Mar 1999

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Mark Abene
• a.k.a. “Phiber Optik”

• from New York City

• member of Legion of Doom and
Masters of Deception

• high-proﬁle hacker in the early
1990s

• In 1994, one-year enprisonment

• for conspiracy and unauthorized
access to computer and telephone
systems

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Jonathan James
• a.k.a. “c0mrade”

• ﬁrst juvenile incarcerated for
cybercrime

• 15 when he hacked

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency,
a division of the United States
Department of Defense

• suicide May 18, 2008

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Deceptive Duo
• 20-year-old Benjamin Stark

• 18-year-old Robert Lyttle

• 2002 series of high-proﬁle break-ins
to government networks

• U.S. Navy, NASA, FAA and
Department of Defense

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Adrian Lamo
• grey hat hacker

• exploited: Microsoft, the New York
Times, Lexis-Nexis, and Yahoo!

• hunt down by FBI

• surrendered to the U.S. Marshals on
September 9, 2003

• pay $65,000

• sentenced to home detention and
probation

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MICHAEL CALCE
• a.k.a. “MaﬁaBoy”

• 15 years old

• Valentine’s Day in 2000

• DoS - 75 computers in 52 networks

• eBay, Amazon and Yahoo

• eight months of “open custody,”

• one year of probation, restricted
use of the internet, and a small ﬁne.

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Vladimir Levin
• a.k.a. “ArkanoiD”

• 1994 St. Petersburg hacker group

• tricked Citibank's computers into
spitting out $10 million

• played around with systems’ tools
(e.g. were installing and running
games) and were unnoticed by the
bank’s staﬀ.

• three years in prison and ordered to
pay Citibank $240,015 (his share
from the heist)

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Gordon Lyon
• a.k.a. “Fyodor”

• network security expert

• open source programmer

• Nmap Security Scanner

• Insecure.Org

• SecLists.Org

• SecTools.Org

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Others
• Onel A. De Guzman

• Cheng Ing-Hau

• Mudge

• Jon Lech Johansen

• Dimitry Sklyarov

• David L. Smith
• Johan Helsingius

• Eric Steven Raymond

• John Perry Barlow

• Sven Jaschan

• Dennis Moran

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hacking subculture

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Chaos Computer Club
• a.k.a. “CCC”

• based in Germany, founded in
1981

• 9,000 members

• "a galactic community of life forms,
independent of age, sex, race or
societal orientation, which strives
across borders for freedom of
information...."

• Supporting the principles of the
hacker ethic

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Legion of Doom
• founded in 1984

• weblog: "Cult of the Dead Cow"

• Cult's stated goal of "Global
Domination Through Media
Saturation,"

• Great hacker war with Masters of
Deception

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Masters of Deception
• a.k.a. “MOD”

• New York-based hackergroup

• reportedly controlled all the major
telephone RBOC's and X.
25networks

• controlling large parts of the
backbone of Internet

• levels of initiation and protection of
more sensitive knowledge

• Great hacker war with Legion of
Doom

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L0pht
• hacker collective

• active 1992 and 2000

• located in the
Boston,Massachusetts area

• l0pht crack

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Team Elite
• international group of computer
hackers

• who develop all kind of software
and their primary focus is security

• found security holes at

• MI5, WHO, Kaspersky Lab, Avira,
Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Eset, F-
Secure, ESA, Trend Micro, Intel,
eBay UK, PayPal, the U.S. Bank,
Bank of America, RBS WorldPay,
Visa, The New York Times, The
Telegraph, Daily Express, MPAA,
RIAA, Ministry of Defence of the
United Kingdom, Estoniaand
Armenia, IFPI, Bhuvan, Deutsche
Bundesbank.

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Anonymous
• It is not old, but it is notable!

• from 4chan.org

• LOIC

• HB Gary

• Sony

• DDoS on MPAA and RIAA

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Other notable

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hacktivists

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Richard Stallman
• a.k.a. “rms”

• GNU Project

• father of free software

• Emacs

• gcc, gdb

• against Digital Rights Management

• awards, fellowships and four
honorary doctorates.

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Eric Corley
• Emmanuel Goldstein

• Oﬀ the Hook

• Free Kevin

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Eric Steven Raymond
• Cathedral and the Bazzar

• The Hacker's Dictionary

• How to Be a Hacker

• developer of fetchmail
• revels in living the life in all its geeky
glory

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Loyd Blankenship
• The Mentor

• The Hacker Manifesto

• Member of Legion Of Doom

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l33t speak
• catb.org/jargon/

• glider

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Free Kevin

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Hackerspace
• hackerspaces.org

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EHAP
• Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia

• The Genocide2600 Group

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Phrack magazine
• phrack.com

• ﬁrst published November 17, 1985

• Fyodor: "the best, and by far the
longest running hacker zine,"

• covers phreaking, anarchy,
cracking, hacking, cryptography
and international news.

• "has had its ﬁnger on the pulse of
hacker culture"

• handbook and a manifesto for
hackers

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2600
• Oﬀ the Hook

• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly

• HOPE conference

• 2600.com

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The Hacker Manifesto
• The Mentor -> Blankenship

• wrote after he was arrested in 1986

• hacker’s only crime is curiosity

• a moral guide to hackers

• a cornerstone of hacker philosophy

• reprinted in Phrack

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The Cathedral and the
Bazzar
• a.k.a. “CatB”

• essay by Eric S. Raymond

• based on his observations of the
Linux kernel development process

• and his experiences managing an
open source project, fetchmail

• at Linux Congress, May 27, 1997

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War games
• imdb.com/title/tt0086567

• 1983

• Matthew Broderick

• Dabney Coleman

• John Wood

• Ally Sheedy

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Hackers

• 1995

• Jonny Lee Miller

• Angelina Jolie

• Hackers 2

• Hackers 3

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Sneakers

• 1992

• Gary Hershberger

• Robert Redford

• Sidney Poitier

• David Strathairn

• Dan Aykroyd

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communication

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Bulletin board system
• a.k.a. “BBS”

• Once logged in

• user can uploading and
downloading software and data

• reading news and bulletins

• exchanging messages with other
users, either through electronic mail
or in public message boards

• access via a Telnet

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Usenet
• Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979

• worldwide distributed Internet
discussion system

• Usenet resembles a bulletin board
system

• precursor to the various Internet
forums

• absence of a central server and
dedicated administrator

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Internet Relay Chat
• a.k.a. “IRC”

• IRC was created in 1988

• real-time Internet text messaging
(chat) or synchronous conferencing

• mainly designed for group
communication

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The great hacker war

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wardriving

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uplink
• Hacker Elite

• introversion.co.uk/uplink/

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conferences

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defcon www.defcon.org

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black hat blackhat.com

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hope hope.net

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Any questions?
Matt Harasymczuk
matt@harasymczuk.pl
www.matt.harasymczuk.pl

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I rest my case That's all Folks

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Thank you.

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