HIR Issue 7: Asmodians Work bench
by Asmodian X
Def-Con 6.0
I could rattle on for a bit on this subject for a while but for now ill send greets to WW, Schemerz, Axon, Frogman, Aramadillo, and Jack the techno dragon. Pardon any handle mangling. There was an even amount of hackers to groupies. Which was nice because then I can just blend in with the crowd and enjoy the surroundings rather than having to deal with obnoxious wannabes. If you check out NY Times for day 2, you will see a punkish looking fellow, he was in my group for capture the flag. A reporter also interviewed me but i didn't hear anything about again. I'm too tired at this point to go into much detail about it
I'll just quote from my wanna be web page about that.
<EXCERPT FROM HTTP://axon.jccc.net/~asmodian/>
While attending a massive computer convention called Def. Con 6.0, A writer for the New York Times once scoffed at my choice to deny him my real name. He said something to the effect of, "no wonder people get the wrong idea about hackers, they wont even give their real name."
That really made me think.
At first I felt bad, I wondered if he would put the quote in the paper, and then wondered how my parents would feel if they read the article. Now that I reflect on the situation, I was right to remain anonymous.
If you think about it, your name drags a lot of people along with it. Your first name is what every body knows you by. Your middle name is what your parents know you by. And then there's your last name which hauls the rest of your family into the picture. So if you were an actor, you would choose a stage name, something that wouldn't haul the rest of your family with you into the spot light of the world. Some famous stage names are (insert weird symbol here) the artist formerly known as prince, Madonna, Walter Mathau ...etc.
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Any way, I think I made a good choice in remaining anonymous. If you disagree by all means blast me an e-mail at asmodianx@hotmail.com.
I also hooked AEGIS my laptop into the capture the flag network, and it survived. On 4 Mb of ram I would have expected it to die, but it survived and was relatively un-hacked (except for 1 guest account which was captured by shoulder surfing because they user was stupid. not Bad for Slackware Eh!?
Window CE
Something that you might want to keep in mind is to avoid plugging in power hogging PC CARDS. These little dudes tend to over heat when you start sucking 1 amp, and thats WITH THE AC CORD!
SNAFU
As for the lateness of my articles, i must apologize, I put Debian 2.0 on my home PC and in-advertantly fried my pub directory which houses my submission archive... oops!?
Addendum
For those of you looking for some good sites heres a list:
www.freedos.org
www.linux.org
www.freebsd.org
www.sco.com
www.hpc.net
www.ticalc.org
and if you wish to embarrass your self:
www.Microsoft.com
www.warez.org
ALERT!
TALK TO US, SEND EMAIL TO H_I_R@hotmail.com, and ME too at asmodianx@hotmail.com!!!
