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- INTERVIEW WITH DARK HELMET / TRIDENT / THE NETHERLANDS
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-
- Give me a short description of who you are!
-
- - Well I'm male, 24 years old and I'm last year
- student computer science.
-
- From where did you get your handle, Dark Helmet?
-
- - I got the name from a film of Mel Brooks called 'Spaceballs'. The
- film itself is a parody on the Sciene Fiction films.
-
- When did you discovered the world of computers?
- - I think I was about 10 years old when I got my first game computer
- (a Philips ..., I forgot the name). Later when I was about 14, I
- bought a C64 (great computer) then 4 years later I bought an Atari
- 520 ST computer. And a couple years later a PC, which I still use
- today.
-
- How long have you been active in the scene?
-
- - I think about a 2 years, about 6 months after I bought my PC.
-
- How did you came into the virus business?
-
- - I got involved with viruses at my school. At that time people didn't
- know much about viruses and when the school got hit by a virus I
- wanted to know more about these things. So I started to collect
- viruses. Thats how I got in contact with <Sorry censored!> who just
- had started with <More Censor!> a Hack/Phreak/Virus BBS. After just
- collecting I tried to write my own virus. So I wrote my first virus
- a overwriting non-resident virus of 44 bytes. It took me about 3
- hours to write it because I hadn't programmed in assembler before.
- Most of knowledge I got from books that you can buy at you local
- bookshop.
-
- Have you been involved in any other group than Trident?
-
- - Nope..
-
- Who started/created Trident?
-
- - I think it was Tardy who started the group. He also came up with the
- name TridenT. There where four members when the group started. John
- Tardy, Peter Venkman, Bit Addict and Dark Helmet (me). The group was
- founded in the summer of '92.
-
- What's the groups goal?
-
- - To write viruses and to exchange idea's
-
- How many people are you?
-
- - don't know, I think 8 or 9.
-
- What's their handles?
-
- - Bit Addict
- Dark Helmet
- xxxxxxxxxxxxx (more censor!)
- xxxxxxxxx (look above!!)
- Masud Khafir
- Crom Cruach
- John Tardy
- Dark Ray
- NighBird??? (don't know this one)
-
- Do all of them program, if not, what's the others job?
-
- - most of them program, the others do other stuff like xxxxxxxxx who
- xxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [This is getting too much censoring!]
-
- Who are the "leading/head-persons" in the group?
-
- - Well there isn't a leading/head person or something like that.
- Everyone does the things he likes.
-
- How is Trident (currently) organzied?
-
- - Not...well loose, we do have regular meetings and so and we have a
- internal network between the members.
-
- Have you got any contacts with other virus-groups/programmers?
-
- - There are some contacts with the other main viruswriting
- groups in the virusworld. And there is also some sort
- of contact with other virusprogrammers in the Netherland.
-
- Can anyone ask for membership, or are you a "private" group?
-
- - Everyone can join as long as he is willing to accept the rules
-
- What does it take to join up?
-
- - Stick with the rules :
- no racism in viruses
- no destructive viruses
- if you can write a virus it will help...
-
- Have you ever thought of/are you currently releasing some sort of
- electronic magazine (text/executable/hard-copy)
-
- - Yea, well we have discussed this idea a long time, but because of the
- new laws in the netherland we didn't do it....
-
- Are you into other things such as hacking and phreaking aswell, or
- just viruses?
-
- - Well a the beginning I did a little bit of hacking aswell but I
- stopped with that because the phone bills got to high
-
- Do you have some network-connection?
-
- - You can reach me at Nuke-net, adresses it to Dark Helmet and I will
- read it ( I hope).
-
- Can you name a few viruses/engines that members of Trident has
- written?
-
- - TPE, Horns of Jericho, Crusher, Civil War, Gotcha, and so on...
-
- Which of them have you written yourself?
-
- - Civil war(s), Ritzen and some other
-
- Which one was the hardest to write?
-
- - None virus writing isn't that hard..
-
- Do you have any sort of company or law-enforcement who are trying
- to hunt Trident down?
-
- - Yea, the CRI, I think Tardy can you tell more about this.
-
- If so, are they a real threat or just "childish"?
-
- - No, they are a real threat to us...
-
- Have you ever had any trouble in the group with the result of kicked
- member(s)?
-
- - Nope, because nobody is kicked out...
-
- How good are Trident comparing to other groups?
-
- - We are the best...( well at least we are in the top 3 )
-
- Do you have any couriers that spread your products around?
-
- - No, I upload the creation to a Vx board and then it will spread itself
-
- What do you think about the laws against h/p/v that has arrived lately?
-
- - I here they are becoming a problem to us, because you have to be very
- carefull that you don't break the law
-
- Would you feel guilty if one of your viruses made damage to a hospital?
-
- - I don't thinks so, because I don't feel responsible if someone else
- start releasing viruses in the wild. As a matter of fact I think that
- the most viruswriters don't spread there creation around in the wild.
- I think that the whole virus problem is exaggerated by some anti-virus
- people.
-
- Do you see any differences between the scene now and a couple of
- years ago (concerning the underground part ofcause)?
-
- - Well its much more organized then a few years back, and there
- is also more contact with the other groups and viruswriters.
- and there are now much more people involved then
- a few years back.
-
- Which virus-magazine do you think is the best avalible now-a-days?
-
- - Crypt and 40Hex, I like Crypt for the news and 40hex for the news and
- programming stuff
-
- Which virus-group/programmer do you admire/like?
-
- - No one..,I don't believe in that hero stuff andso..
-
- Which country is the best virus-writing today?
-
- - Maybe Russia, don't know exactly...
-
- Which virus-group(s) do you think is the best?
-
- - I think Phalcon/Skism is very good.
-
- What do you think about these virus generators, such as VCL or PS-MPC?
- IVP, NUKE-GV etc. etc.?
-
- - I'm working on my own virus generator now, that will generating
- viruses the polymorphic way. It was planned to be ready last xmas,
- but some things came up and I don't know when I finnish it yet.
-
- What do you think about the people using them?
-
- - Well I don't see the fun of using a virusconstructor and generate
- a virus and spread it. I mean whats the point of it. Be orginal and
- try to write your own virus.
-
- What do you think about people bragging over (almost) nothing and
- ragging with other groups aswell?
-
- - ignore them...
-
- What do you think about such individes as board-crashers?
-
- - Depends on the reason for crashing the board. But if there is no
- good reason I see it as pure vandalism.
-
- Describe the perfect virus :
-
- - I don't think there is suchs thing as a perfect virus, every virus
- has some negative aspects....
-
- Which AV-program do think is the best, and why?
-
- - F-Prot, it has a easy to use user-interface, and it has a good
- detection rate of viruses. For students its free.
-
- What do you think about the underground's future?
-
- - I think there is no more real underground, I think is will more public
- in the future. Next I believe that the underground will become more
- organzied both in contact between each other as in more groups.
-
- Any advice to people who want's to learn the basic of virus-writing?
-
- - 1. Buy a good book. (I learned a lot of 'Advanced MS-DOS programming,
- by Ray Duncan, second edition, Microsoft Press, Redmond WA, USA)
- 2. Then get some real viruses and study them.
- 3. Try to write a simple virus, like a overwriting one, or a simple
- non-resident infector, then move up to resident ones and so on.
-
- Something else you wish to say?
-
- Sorry that I don't have more time to fill out all the question, and that
- I didn't have time to remove all the spelling and grammar error. If you
- have anything to ask, you can reach me xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-
- Do you wish to send any greets?
-
- - Sure...Greetings to :
- Alie, Anja, Claudine, Christine, Dyonne, Erik, Frank, Gertie, Jos,
- Linda, Liesbeth, Mariƫle, Marcel M., Marcel T., Mildred, Mike,
- Norbert, Peter, Ralph, Roger C., Roger H., Victoir