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- TITEL : HACKING IN HOLLAND
- AUTEUR : ROP GONGGRIJP
- DATUM : 18/10/88
- UPLOAD DOOR: ROP GONGGRIJP
- UPLOADDATUM: 18/10/88
- TREFWOORDEN: HACKING, ENGELS, PHREAK
- BEWERKT : 18/10/88 ROP
- IN 'T KORT : Engelse 'leader' voor op buitenlandse BBS'en
- FILE : DUTCH.HCK
- LENGTE : 4.1 kB
- TOEGANG : OPENBAAR
- OPMERKINGEN:
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- HACKING IN HOLLAND
-
- In Holland, hacking started out late. The first real hacks were
- done in the early eighties. Among these hacks was the 'RIVM hack',
- hacking the computer of the dutch health-inspection (FDA). Because
- even patient names were listed here this got a lot of publicity.
-
- Around 1984/1985 the movement grew rapidly because of the movie
- 'Wargames' and publications in the "Volkskrant", the country's major
- left-wing newspaper. It was around these days two students hacked the
- '008 computer', the directory-assistance system, owned by our local
- Ma-Bell clone, the PTT. Because hackers had access to a lot of
- unlisted phone numbers this was front-page news in all of Europe.
-
- Shortly after this hack, Jan Jacobs published the book 'kraken en
- computers' (hacking and computers), about the uprise of the hacker
- movement in The Netherlands. Jan Jacobs is also a free-lance reporter
- for the 'Volkskrant' which explains their scoops on major hacking
- events. In those days, he himself was a hacker.
-
- Things remained relatively quiet, although the CCC kept scaring
- everybody with their marvelous hacks all over the world over the
- packet-network. X-25 hacking in Holland is relatively new, not because
- the net was not there, but because it was still to easy to use the
- telephone. Only recently dutch hackers discover that the X-25 net
- offers them the opportunity to make low-cost global hacks.
-
- Another group had sprung into life in the early eighties, phreaks.
- These phreaks concentrated on mobile phones however, because our ATF1
- (car-phone 1) system is as leak as a basket. Using a CBM-64 or other
- simple hardware and an FM-tranceiver, every weirdo could make free
- calls all over the world. This lasted until there were so many illegal
- car-phones that the costs began affecting the total PTT turnover.
-
- The PTT then made it impossible for car-phone users to make
- international phone calls automatically and told their international
- operators to check for fraud carefully. By that time all the phreaks
- were rich from selling their technique 'to friends only', and bored
- stiff, because the PTT had taken their toy away. There was a new
- system, ATF2 (compatible to the scandinavian NMT system), but this was
- to complicated (in those days) to hack (considdering these people were
- not computer minds but mainly high-frequency experts).
-
- The phreaks met the hackers and they decided their goels were the
- same.
-
- The PTT phreaked out when the world found out that some of the leading
- hackers had switched to phreaking. When Personal Computer Magazine
- published an article about phreaks making free calls all over the
- world through an old exchange in Denmark (which could be reached free
- of charge), all hell broke loose. The magazine contained our list of
- frequencies for the CCITT-4 system, so suddenly everybody was a
- phonephreak. The free lines to Denmark were rerouted, some other gaps
- were closed, but no action could be taken against the phone phreaks
- (The Key and me among others), because no phone-fraud legislation
- exists in Holland. Can you imagine what it's like to live in a country
- that has NO phone-fraud laws?
-
- Since then things have cooled down (there are only about 40 real
- active hackers in the entire country, so things tend to get quiet
- every once in a while), but as soon as anything happens, we'll let you
- know.
-
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- ROP & The Key
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- Leave a message for ROP GONGGRIJP at NEABBS, Europe's biggest BBS, and
- I will give you THIS (The Hacker Information System) privs as soon as
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