Well, sometimes, they are really 1337 elitist Cambridge hackers who figure out how it’s possible to steal your credit card number when you use it at the cash register. Then, occasionally, they go to German hacker conferences and explain how to do it. Hint for those of you playing along at home: it involves power […]
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Remember I said hackers aren’t just the guys who steal your credit card number?
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture, Technology
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Club-Mate: The drink of champions
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Germany, Hacker culture
One of the important elements of a subculture is its tendency to collectively select visible markers of membership in that culture: clothes, hairstyles, preferred products. Hackers as a culture are certainly not immune to this, but as a culture that prides itself on valuing accomplishment over image, the markers of membership in hacker culture tend […]
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DDDDDoS
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture, Photos
Another historic first from 25C3, the first-ever (confirmed) Dual Dunkin’ Donuts Distributed Denial of Service (DDDDDoS) attack. Two Dunkin’ Donuts stores near the conference center in Alexanderplatz were simultaneously flashmobbed by hundreds of hackers, temporarily interrupting normal donut delivery. It would appear that the stores did not have adequate caching implemented, although local mirrors were […]
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Two-thousand and Eight was Filled with Win
January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Germany, Travel
Ok, well, not really. For most people, it was probably kind of terrible, what with the entire global economy teetering on the verge of collapse and everything. I am sympathetic, and if 2008 was a crap year for you, at least you can take comfort in the fact that 2009 will might suck less. But […]
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Update
January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Germany, Tech-art
I’m in Berlin now, again. I like this city, and I’m starting to know my way around since I keep winding up here. Unfortunately, it’s freezing cold. Berlin is about 400 kilometers almost due south of Copenhagen, but it sure doesn’t feel it. I killed myself getting over from Malmo to Copenhagen to try to […]
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