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A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E... http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/hacking_orgs/ A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and Effects on Society Alisha Cecil [[email protected]] Abstract Since the early 1970's, hackers have been prevalent throughout the computing world. Two main categories of Hackers have evolved: the Open Source and Free Software group and the Security Hackers group. This paper details some of the more notable groups and individuals of each 'category' of hackers, the effects of hacking on society, as well as conferences and publications that they are responsible for that have contributed to the modern hacking world. Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Hacking Sytles 3.0 Hacker Etiquette & Ethics 4.0 Hacking Groups & Individuals 4.1 Open Source & Free Software Hackers 4.2 Security Hackers 4.2.1 Chaos Computer Club (CCC) 4.2.2 Legion of Doom (LoD) 4.2.3 The Mentor 4.2.4 cDc Communications 4.2.5 Shadow Crew 5.0 Hacker Conferences 5.1 Chaos Communication Congress 5.2 SummerCon 5.3 HoHoCon (or Xmas Con) 5.4 DEF CON 5.5 Hackers on Planet Earth (H.O.P.E.) 5.6 Black Hat Briefiengs 6.0 Hacker Publications 6.1 2600: Hacker Quarterly 6.2 Phrack 7.0 Hackers Effects on Society 8.0 Summary List of Acronyms References 1.0 Introduction Since the early 1970's, hackers have been prevalent throughout the computing world. They come in all shapes, 1 of 16 12/19/2007 5:12 PM A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E... http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/hacking_orgs/ sizes, and colors. Some act with good intentions, others with ill intentions, and yet others with a mixture of both. No matter what the intentions were, the outcomes of their actions affected the world in some way. New organizations, such as Microsoft and Apple were founded and a new 'open and free' attitude towards software development evolved. However the good came along with the bad. Some hackers were more interested in their own personal gain and strived to circumvent security measures that existed. The rest of this paper details some of the more notable groups and individuals of each 'category' of hackers, the effects of hacking on society, as well as conferences and publications that they are responsible for that have contributed to the modern hacking world. Figure 1 below provides a timeline of the notable events that are discussed in this paper. Before beginning the discussion on the different groups, it is first important to be aware of the different styles of hacking that exist. Figure 1: Hacking History [Timeline07] Back to Table of Contents 2.0 Hacking Styles When you hear the word HACKER you typically think of a person who has gained access to a system they do not have permission to access. It is generally perceived with a negative connotation. A hacker can in fact be a person who acts in a legal or illegal way. According to Wikipedia, three categories of hackers exist. A White Hat hacker is a person who engages in ethical hacking. These include members of the open source and free software movement as well as home computer hobbyists. White Hat hackers do not participate in illegal activities, as opposed to a Black Hat hacker who illegally engages in computer trespassing. Black Hat hackers 2 of 16 12/19/2007 5:12 PM A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E... http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/hacking_orgs/ generally have a malicious intent and carry out activities that will negatively affect others. The third category of hackers that has evolved is the Grey Hat hacker. Grey Hat hackers are a hybrid of white and black hat hackers. They sometimes act legally with good intentions, while other times illegally for their own personal gain. [Hacker07] Now that the different styles have been described, it is important to understand the high-level theories to which there actions can be derived. Back to Table of Contents 3.0 Hacker Etiquette & Ethics Hacker Ethic is a term that was first used in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution written by American journalist Steven Levy in 1984. The ideology behind hacker ethics came from the values of the hackers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The key points are as follows: [Hacker07] "Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-on Imperative!" "All information should be free." Mistrust authority- promote decentralization." Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position." "You can create art and beauty on a computer." "Computers can change your life for the better." The difference between how these principles are put to use is all in how they are construed. For example Black Hat hackers may read the first principle, access to computers, as right to obtain access in any way possible from any system in the world at any cost. The Jargon File, a glossary of hacker slang created in 1975 from multiple technical cultures, also provides a definition of hacker ethic [HackerEthic]. 1. "The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source code and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible." 2. "The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality." Most hackers accept the term hacker ethic as in number one above. There are a few groups, such as GNU, that go further and believe all information should be free and any proprietary control of it is bad. Definition two is a bit more controversial. Some see the act of cracking as unethical, while others believe that 'ethical' cracking excludes destruction and therefore see themselves as harmless crackers. With this view they see it as a good thing that they can break into a system and then notify the administrator exactly how the system was compromised and how they can fix it. More generally, hacker ethic "is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and possibly computing resources with other hackers" [HackerEthic]. The groups and individuals discussed below have done exactly that. They have shared knowledge in the form of new software suites, vulnerability detection, as well as general computing information with the rest of the world. Back to Table of Contents 3 of 16 12/19/2007 5:12 PM A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E... http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/hacking_orgs/ 4.0 Hacking Groups & Individuals There are two main categories of hackers: Computer Security hackers and Open Source and Free Software hackers. 4.1 Open Source & Free Software Hackers Hackers who fall in the open source and free software category are white hat hackers who see software design as an art form and build programs lightheartedly. This group was developed in the 1960's by academic hackers working with minicomputers and in the computer science field. In the 1990's it became more of what we know as the free software and open source movement. Hackers in this group typically work in the open and go by their real name. They often look down on security hackers and refer to them as crackers. Programmers working in the academic culture will modify existing code or resources to achieve their end goal. Major contributors to this group include Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, as well as Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, creators of the C Programming Language. Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project, is also a contributor to this group. Stallman also founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985. Table 4.1 below is a list of some of the more popular free software products that exist. To view a complete list of products visit http://directory.fsf.org/. Table 4.1: Abbreviated Free Software List [FreeSoftware] Free Software Description GNU OS Linux OS SAMBA File-sharing Radius Remote authentication and accounting system Eclipse Java based Integrated Development Environment EMACS Extensible, real-time editor OpenSSH Free implementation of SSH1 protocol Mozilla Internet Browser FireFox Lightweight Browser Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer Thunderbird Redesign of Mozilla mail component Open Office Complete office suite MySQL Relational database management system In the late 1970's, with the availability of the MIT's Altain, hobby hacking became popular. Members of this home computing genre, Hobbyists, focus mainly on commercial computer and video games, software cracking, and modification of computer hardware and other electronic devices (modding). The creator of Apple I and II series computers, Steve Wozniak, and the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates are two individuals that prospered in this era [Hacker07]. All of these individuals worked under the realm of definition one of the Hacker Ethic of the Jargon File, unlike their counterparts the security hackers who more closely followed definition two. 4.2 Security Hackers 4 of 16 12/19/2007 5:12 PM A Summary of Hacking Organizations, Conferences, Publications, and E... http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/hacking_orgs/ Hackers in the security hacking category are mostly black hat hackers working with ill intentions. Some groups and individuals however could better be categorized as grey hat hackers. This category of hackers prefers to be secretive and will often use an alias to conceal their true identity.
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