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6t h Chaos Communication Congress 1989·Open f r o n t i e r s : CoComed together '

By: Klaus Brunnstein

Followingtrends of the 5th

CCCcongress,

themes r e l a t i n gto computer secur i ty were l e s s dominanb. As CCC members andcongress, organizers age and t h e i r profess ioinal backgrounddominates (a s i gn i fi ca n t p a rt works in computing), th ep o l i t i c a l impact of computerisation becomes dominant, no tonly under a revised West/East German scenario. Even th epresentation o f comp. secur it y changes: invi ted speakers withsol id s c i e n t i f i c background l ec ture in t r ad i ti o n al s t y le ,some even with overhead f o l i o s from i n t e r n a t i o n a l conferences;even a s t a t e a t torney ( respons ible fo r th e case FRG vs .S .Wernery re hacking!) p a r t i c i p a t e d in a suprisingly f a i r andopen discussion on criminal law against hacking.

The 6t h annual c ongr es s o f Hamburg's Chaos Computer Club(CCC) was held on 27-29 December 1989 in Hamburg. Therecent p o l i t i c a l development in Germany also i n fl u en ce s t hehacker scene; only a f t e r a cont rovers ia l debate, th eorganizers denied a suggestion to move th e congress t o EastBerlin. Among th e about 300 v i s i t o r s , about 50 people werefrom East Germany were present . A few f o r ~ i g n v i s i t o r s camefrom France , Nether lands and USA. The congress was maledominated, with a growing female p a r t i c i p a t i o n (about 40).The other major German hacker groups ( fr om Bavaria, Cologne)were no t p r e s e n t ~

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Major themes were:- i n f o about computerisation and network i n f r a s t r u c t u r e .in East Germany-cooperation w it h E as t German computer freaks

-cooperation wi th eco -g roups- 'female computer handling'-KGB-hacker 'Hagbard'- Se cur it y i n open networks (2 invi ted speakers)-Hacker ethics and Harper's Hacker Confe rence (Cap 'n Crunch)-Free Flow of Information, Copyright _-UNIX discussions: several workshops, UUCP

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Several sessions were devoted to th e s t a t e and possibledevelopments of computers + communication (c+c) in EastGe rmany . Wi th i n s u f f i c i e n t computers and and outmodedtelephone net , CCC appealed to th e German public to donateunused equipment (C64, Apple I I , PCs) to eastern groups.As s u b s t i t u t e of th e i n s u f f i c i e n t telephone net , th e recentlyi n s t a l l e d 'packet, radio' should be used fo r computer com

mUhicat ion; pc-communicat ion with packet-radio was demons t r a t e d a t th e exhibi t ion. As a s t a r t of computerisation,CCC plans to hold another cong res s (Kaos Kommunikation Kongress)in East Berlin e ar ly i n 1990.



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Representatives of th e East German cit izen movement, esp.from'New Forum' discussed possible devolpments. Many part ic ipants(most or iented towards th e l e f t wing of th e pol i t ical spectrum)adviced th e East Germans no t wil l ingly to follow West Germanc+c industry and public author i t ies (Telakom) to i ns t a l lt r ad i t iona l technology; as an example, ISDN i s widely c r i t i cized because it neg le c ts d at a protection laws.

Following discussions on CCC congress 88 , several projectsof eco log i ca l da ta processing and communicai ton s tar ted(e .g . data c o ll e ct io n i n th e enviroment of industry and nuclearpower plants) . CCC and some eco-groups plan to ins ta l l aninformation center on a ship during th e EEe's North Sea

conference (March 1990). A special session and workshop wasalso devoted to female computer-handling; a group of male(3 0) an d female (20) part ic ipants discussed th e role anda t t i tudes of women in education and profession; s io i l a rdiscussions in nat ional and in terna t ional conferences (e .g .IFfP TC-9) may point to revised design p r in c ip l es ( e .g .reduced complexity, possible p laus ib i l i ty control) .

Only a minor par t of th e congress was devoted to t rad it ionalhacker themes. Suprisingly, CCC d id n ot follow it's t rad

i t ion to ex t ens ive ly d i scuss hacker expe r ience s o f th e l a s tyear. The KGB hack (b road ly published in March , 1989) was*no theme*; instead, a session was devoted to th e memory ofKarl Koch al ias 'Captain Hagbard' , on e of Clif f Stol l ' s'Wily Hackers ' (CACM 5/1988) who, after having informed th epublic author i t ies as one of 2 chief witnesses in th e case,

committed suiciqe. 3 personal f r iends (without any in te r es tin c ompu ti ng ) a nd PENGO (the o th er c hi ef wi tne ss ) de sc r ib edHagba rd 's s ad l i f e story, fu l l of family probl ems and

addictions (drug, hacking). The role of th e media as wellas CCC's r ol e ( pa rt of which had strongly denied any contactto t he c ra cke rs ) was controversially 'd i s c u s s e d .

Btw: th e t r i a l agains t 3KGB hackers will begin on Ja n 11 , 1990.

A whole 4 hour session was devoted to ' S ec u ri ty i n opennetworks' , with Dr. Raubo ld ( d ir ec to r i n GMD, t he n at io n alresearch i ns t i tu t e fo r c omput er s a nd communi ca ti on ) a nd Dr.Pfitzmann (Kar l sruhe , Facu l ty fo r Informatics) introducingin to technologies of encryption (DES, RSA) and o f s ec ur ecommunication in open networks; th e 20 par t icipants whichstayed unt i l th e end were mainly s tu de nt s o f Informatics

and programmers .

'Cap'n Crunch' reported about t he r ec en t elec tronic conference which was sponsered by Ha rpe r' s; t he resu lts wil l bepublished in this magazine e ar ly i n 1 99 0 (Ed - Ma rc h) (surveydocument in English available on reques t) . He moreoverdemonstrated, v ia AT+T operator switched connection, PicturePhone.

Virus Forum II (1989) was intended to show th e devolopmentssince Forum I (1985) where CCC made v i ru s es publ ic ly knownin FRG. Ralf Burger ( au th or o f a Virus Book, where hepublished also vi rus code including a MVS/370 virus) , WauHolland (CCC's founding father) , Juergen Wieckmann (edi torof Chaos Computer Book) and K.Brunnstein discussed t rends ofviruses. Meanwhile, more than 80 viruses are known on INTEL80xxx-systems, and more than 70 on several 68.000-systmes as

AMIGA, Atar i and MacIntosh. Viruses are found to grow from' famil ies ' , th e descendants of which are ever more di f f i cu l t

to analyse and produce growing damages.6

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WHile th e pa r t i c i panc s ca,yreeu in th e t hrea t a s se s smen t , t her e

W i l ~ s i qn i f Lcan t d i saqreement; about th e couscqucnccs . j j U l ' g ~ ! "i!ryueJ t h ~ t e v ~ c y b o d y CdO pro9raUl ..1 VirU::ii publi(.;ation orV l r u ~ COuc d o ~ ~ no t cont r ibute t o th e virus thcc'-lt. UrUllU-

s t eLn a r qued strongly aqa i ns t , tha t many young p roq rauunerslearn to program viruses Ul.:linly from ~ u b l i ~ h c d code which t h ~ ycnanqe s l ightly to produce there own virus; even i f theyproyraOl it viru::i fo r l c ~ r n i n 9 pucpo::acs, they l oos e contculwhen i t s p r c a d ~ via t h friends ' diskettes . Virus lJublicationas pare of vi rus d i ~ t r i b u t i o n presents severe t h r ~ a c s co d a t ~proceas rnq in economy , public serv rces and priva te l i t e .IFIP G e n ~ r a l ASSembly

Another controversy raised when Burger to ld th e a U d i e ~ c e :'My ant iv irus finds every virus ' ; u n f o r t u ~ a t e l y , .h e d ~ noca c c ~ p c a bet from th e a u d i ~ n c e to p rove h1s p r o m ~ s e . B ~ r ~ ~ ra ls o s aj d, tha t he needs only o n e . h o ~ r . t o d ~ t ~ c c and ellmlnate any anomaly; th i s differed s ~ 9 n ~ f ~ c a n t l y from th e 250

hours which according to B r u n n s t e ~ n are needed to analyse ,and class ify a complex vi rus and to produce t h proper antl-

virus.

Some part ic ipants from th e audience dif ferentiated b e t w e e n ~che good us e of viruses and bad use. I t could Le Good Usc ofviruses .a ga i n s t inacceptable a c ~ i v i t i e s , such a s n uc le arweapons or s t at e a c t iv i t ie s such as census. Following suchideas, Wau Holland said that th e existence of viruses g i v ~ sa chance to analyse whether they are ' social ly acceptable '.

' J ' h ~ I elec tronic newspaper', which reports th e maqor di scus-sions of CCC'U9, was s ignif icantly more p r o f e s s i a n ~ l l y o r g ~ n i s ~ dtdhn las t year; i t was produced by th e team of CHASTLISTI,eec ' s newly (lYH9) founded elec tronic n e w s p a p ~ r , as editionno.4. Due to th e minoi foreign par t icipation , most d o c u m e n ~ sare German, with only two documents ar e wr it te n i n English(Capt.Crunch's repor t on th e Harper Hacker Conference, 41ud

th e l F IP Gener al Assembly' s resolution on l e ga l a c ti v iL i c5agains t viruses ) . There may be an English translacion ofth e CCC newspaper in some time (?early February); I wil l senda s hor t no ti ce to PGN when th i s i s available. People i n c e r ~ s t e din th e German version (1794 Lines, 97kBytes) or th e Englishdocuments (135 Lines, BkBytes) can request ic from t he a ut ho r.

Conclusion: cc c and i t s constituency is on th e *way to

professionalism*. On th is way, ce c may l oos e conc ro l and evenconLact to rea l hacker groups, which they previously hold incases such as Btx and NASA hack; in the KGB case, CCC

~ v i d e n t l y had neither information no r cont rol of t h crackers.On th e other hand, CCC's p ropaga tion o f UNIX enlarges th ethrea ts inherent in UUCP and th e UNIXes.

~ l ~ u s Brunnstein U n i v e r s i ~ y of Hamburg, FRG :J a n u a r y 3, l ~ ~ O

*•• ~ d i t o r · s note- While typinq th is data in , I have sliyht!y

~ d i l ~ d i t . Correcting ~ n p o ~ ~ i b l y aduing ~ o m e m i s t d k ~ st h ~ t t he a ut ho r mighc have maJe. This ar t i c l e W d ~ t ~ k ~ n(com H i ~ k ~ ~ . 5 ~ .

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