Q&A with Keynote – Andrada Fiscutean
summary
Description of early 90s Romanian hacking culture with concrete artifacts and outcomes: hardware clones made by Electronica Factory in Bucharest sold as gaming devices with three chip types, games like Manic Miner and Chaos Frogger on audio cassettes smuggled by pilots and diplomats, sysadmins who could block students for a week, a communal database of vulnerabilities used by Larry's worm which actually exploited found bugs, carding gangs and HackerVille incidents, and the shift when 2002–2003 harsh legislation starts sending some offenders to jail.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Fractal virus Switzerland
- 1:08Sysadmins blocking students
- 2:59Cloning Western computers
- 4:36Romanian gaming computers
- 6:11Chicken from Braila game
- 6:51Games via audio cassettes
- 7:35TV radio game shows
- 7:58Hacking culture shift 1989
- 9:02Computer labs carders excluded
- 9:47Students tools from scratch
- 11:18Romania anti-hacking laws
- 12:04High-profile hacking cases
- 13:31Closing remarks
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