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@^@f05@t1@cThe end of the CCC?






@f00@t4CCC@ta  -  three  letters that changed the
world   of   electronic   communication
services,  databanks, top secret codes,
etc  as  a whole.  Well, of course I am
thinking   of   the   legendary   @t4CHAOS
COMPUTER  CLUB@ta,  now  existing for more
than 10 years, whose members managed to
crush nearly all codes they wanted to.

Founded   as  an  informationforum  for
hacker, it soon turned out as being not
only  a  pool  for technical adventurer
with  anarchistic  ideas,  but also for
revolutioneers  of  modern  technology.
They crunched socalled "absolutly safe"
computercode-programs   and  then  made
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their  newest  hacks public in order to
show the eggheads that there can not be
a real unhackable protection-system.

Their  very first operation was hacking
the  obscure safetysystem of the German
post  mailbox-btx  in 1984.  Two of the
CCCler    managed   to   convince   the
computers  that they were a German bank
and  brought  an  amount  of 135,-DM on
their  private  bank account.  Not that
much?  Yes, you are right, but imagine:
When   they   were  able  to  do  this,
wouldn't   they  be  able  to  do  more
extreme things, too?
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@^@f00@taAfter  this  operation,  the  CCC  soon
became an instance for all hackers that
got     illegally     into     security
computer-systems.   One of the founders
of  the  CCC  says:  "We wanted to help
the  guys,  because  those were no real
criminals,  they  only  wanted  to show
mistakes!"    One    probleme    always
remaining  was  to  differ between real
ideological   hacker   and  those  that
simply   wanted   to  make  money  with
illegal  methods,  because  if someone,
who  was  protected  by the name of the
CCC,   turned   out  as  being  a  real
criminal,  the  whole image of the club
would be destroyed.

The   most   popular   and  spectacular
operation  was  of  course  the omnious
@t4NASA@ta-hack.   Freaks  found a small hint
to  get  into  its safety system.  Real
hot  got the whole thing, however, when
some  other hackers managed to get some
@^information  and  sold  it  to the KGB.
Wieckmann states, that "the whole thing
got a number too big for us."

After  1987,  the  CCC-heads refused to
hide  hackers  behind their name.  Soon
the  CCC  got  more  and more inactive,
because  there  were  no real tasks for
them  to  fullfil anymore.  Today there
are  more and more people, who lost the
hacking spirit within the CCC - they do
nothing   except  phreaking  and  other
unspectacular     rubbish.      Nothing
remained from the old spirit of the big
days  and also a lot of the old members
left.   Even  the  old chief called WAU
HOLLAND had to leave his place to a new
guy   called   FRANK   "TERRA"   SIMON.
WIEKMANN  tells it in his way:  "We did
ten  years  of  positive work, but like
Gorbatchev:   One has to know, when one
has to leave."
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@t3,17
@k384,056,09

@^@f00@t1If  the  CCC  finally  found  its  end?
Maybe,  but  probably  not!   Nowadays,
there  are  quite  new  forces with new
goals in the club.  Therefore, also the
eights   congress   of   the   CCC   in
December'91  showed  this  development:
They  did  new  things,  but  not  less
anarchistically than they did ten years
before.   So,  let us hope that the CCC
will  stay and change the business some
more in the future.  Maybe the unactive
break  of  the  last  three  years  was
needed to reactivate old forces...

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