--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ROP & The Key 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 possible. +31 20 717666, all speeds/standards. European Distribution by: Info Addict +46-498-22113 located just outside the coast of Sweden. ----> Largest Gfile Collection In Europe <---- Yet a new creature has risen to the mideastern sun....