2025-08-10 –, Brachium
Language: English
A trip back into memory lane to the Dutch hacking scene 35 years ago, talking about black hat and white hat hackers, emerging laws and hackers abroad.
Since the internet exists, people have been trying to circumvent security. Whereas most people nowadays do so for financial gain, 35+ years ago the world looked different. The internet connected academia. The people hacking were students, almost the only people who had access. Not many system administrators were paying much attention to security and for hackers, breaking into sites such as that of NASA, were ways to gain a reputation. In this presentation, "one of the Dutch hackers" will take a look at the hacking scene in the late 1980s, early 1990s.
Walter is a long term ethical hacker, both in his professional and private life. He hacks physical locks (he was president of The Open Organisation of Lockpickers and authored the book Locksport), hardware (Gigatron microcomputer) and software (he was co-owner of a penetration testing company). When he's not hacking, he likes to read, sail, and drive in rally cars in Finland.