Captain Zap was at the last CTS show we did and let me tell you he is by no
means that intelligent.
I thought Derek was going to die laughing at hearing some of this nuts
stuff.
If that show wanted to do a Hacker it should have been Kevin Mitnick.I also
think that show was as lame is it could be. He also won a Athlon XP 1800
Processor from Thompson's at that show funny Thompson's was the one who
brought him in there.
Bill Preece
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brother Joseph" <irisinc@tbi.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Hackers: Outlaws and Angles
> I just got through watching a program on Channel 34, The Learning Channel,
> entitled; "Hackers: Outlaws and Angles".
>
> I cannot believe someone with as little knowledge about computing in
> general and system security in particular would waste the amount of money
> it cost to produce a program like that.
>
> Let me enlighten you with some of the terms used in this program.
>
> Good Guys; "White Hats" (also former Black Hats).
> Bad Guys; "Black Hats" (White Hats in training)
> "Electronic Pearl Harbor" (Used numerous times, aka Denial of Service
> Attack)
> "Automated Info War" (Distributed Denial of Service Attack)
> "Hackers" (Used instead of Crackers)
>
> We, the viewing audience, were informed that a "bunch of Chinese hackers"
> banded together to launch an "attack worm" know as "code red" (they did
not
> describe this as a Distributed Denial of Service attack) against the White
> House but the problem was solved by someone at the White House obtaining a
> new IP Address. (Good thinking!)
>
> Two characters exhibited in this epic (Sorry) are introduced as being the
> greatest "hackers of all time. One, known as "Captain Zap", a man of at
> least 50, is seen riding around somewhere in the open back of a pickup
> truck. In the bed of the pickup is a table with two laptops upon which he
> is beating the hell out of the keyboards. This, I guess, means that
> somehow he is "hacking" someone. His claim to fame is he is the one who
> set the clocks 12 hours off at AT&T and saved the general public tons of
> money until the bills went out. The people did not know they had been
> saved but AT&T soon learned that they had been had.
>
> (I remember "Captain Crunch" who learned that a whistle found in the
> Captain Crunch cereal box produced the tone necessary to obtain access
into
> the international long distance cable but I don't know this Captain Zap.)
>
> Anyway the final guy who is portrayed as an expert is some young guy
riding
> around in Washington, D.C. with a wireless scanner hooked up in his car to
> a laptop in the back seat. Every time he passes a wireless network the
> scanner beeps and he says, "Look! Another hit". He then turns around to
> look at the screen on the laptop and confirms that he could break into 6
of
> the 10 hits he got because only four of the networks used encryption. (He
> may have done better if he had a sniffer)
>
> This whole episode was entertaining for the sole purpose of confirming the
> fact that very few people out there in the world have the slightest clue
> how things work, never the less how to stop someone from looking up your
> skirt.
>
> I guess a few of us "White Hats" can still make a decent living keeping
the
> "cracks" out of the foundation.
>
> Joseph
>
>
>
>
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