Pango met Carl Coach, a member of the Hundun Club from Hanover. He really wants to know Walter Holland, but the age and political views of the father of Chaos Club make it difficult for the teenage Pango to get close. Although Berlin is full of rebellious youths, Pango has always considered himself a hero, but Coach's wild and uninhibited style has made him candidly admit defeat. After introducing himself, Coach took out a piece of marijuana from the battery box of the laptop. Taking drugs is just one side of Coach's life. He told Pango that he liked to call himself Hagrid Silane.
The name comes from the thriller The Illuminati Trilogy, in which the protagonist, Captain Hagebad Silaine, bravely fights a powerful secret organization, the Illuminati. The Illuminati began with Islam in the 11th century, and later ruled the world. In order to destroy this organization, the captain sneaked into the Illuminati and made an earth-shattering feat. Hagerbard, who lived in Hanover in 1985, believed that the Illuminati still existed and plotted to assassinate people from John F. Kennedy to ian fleming (the author of 7 spy novels). He believes that he is the embodiment of the captain in the thriller, and his mission is to prevent the Illuminati from triggering a nuclear war. He also believes that global computer networks are a conspiracy, and people in charge of these networks want to dominate the world. He wants to infiltrate the network and smash these people's evil attempts.
Pango admires Hagrid. He used computer equipment to enter the computerized space himself, but Hagrid seems to really live there. He knew that Hagebad's fantasy was related to the brain damage caused by drug abuse, but even so, Hagebad's poetic temperament was still what he liked and envied.
They went to Hanover by train together, and Pango got to know his new friend better. Hagrid's father ran away from home very early, leaving young Hagrid and his sister to his mother. Hagrid witnessed his mother die of cancer, and at the age of 16, his father died of the same disease. In high school, like many West German students, Hagrid was a political activist and firmly opposed to nuclear war. But after his father died, marijuana and LSD replaced politics.
Hagrid introduced Pango to the hacker circle in Hanover. Here, Pango finally found a young man who opposed authority but was divorced from politics like him. Drugs and computers are inseparable, and Pango began to understand Hagrid's view of reality: the only reality is the one you choose. Hacking in Hanover means fighting in front of the computer all night, using marijuana to stimulate inspiration and cocaine to drive away fatigue.
Among these people, there is a 26-year-old programmer nicknamed Dob whose real name is Dirk-Otto brzezinski. He was also a restless guy when he was a student, and he cleverly escaped from service. He is an expert in programming large Siemens computers, and he loves pure marijuana and fine wine.
Pango met Carl Coach, a member of the Hundun Club from Hanover. He really wants to know Walter Holland, but the age and political views of the father of Chaos Club make it difficult for the teenage Pango to get close. 3-year-old Peter Carr is a glib waiter in a casino in Hanover. In 1988, when Dobb was deprived of his driver's license for drunk driving, Carl became his driver. Despite Pango's excesses, he is just a child's play compared with Carl. Carl grew up in an orphanage and used to smuggle cars and drugs to Spain. In 1985, he was arrested on the way of smuggling marijuana from Amsterdam to West Germany and sentenced to nine months' probation.
The fourth and last member of Hanover Group is Markus Hess, who is a physics student at Hanover University. Compared with the other three, he is more like a law-abiding citizen. He is a typical child of a middle-class family in the suburbs. He has no history of his father's early death and no bad record of evading military service. He has a part-time job as a programmer in a local company, Fox, which specializes in Unix software.
these five people have different paths to the computer. Carl went to a technical school, but he couldn't keep up with the progress of the course and dropped out after only one year. Since then, he has especially admired people who engage in technology. He doesn't know anything about computers, but he worships those who know. Dobb uses computers as an escape from reality, just like drinking. Hagrid was driven by fantasies about the Illuminati. Pango loves life in computerized space and has always had the ambition of becoming the greatest hacker in the world. When Hess was a teenager, he followed the rules. After encountering the computer, he found the possibility of deviating from the path arranged by his parents. He likes the sharp contrast between two kinds of life: he is a programmer of Fox in public, but he is secretly wandering in the world of computer network.
Hess quickly found the gateway to the Internet through a university in London. This is the springboard that hackers dream of entering the Internet. In 1986, Hess and Hagbard discovered SLAC in California. Starting from SLAC, Hess arrived at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Computers at Berkeley are hard to access, but Lawrence Berkeley Lab is wide open. The laboratory likes to encourage outside researchers to use the laboratory computer, and the password to enter the laboratory is often the user name. In the eyes of these laid-back Californians, safety seems to be just a joke.
Hagrid lacks programming skills, so he can't understand the opportunities that this lab may offer. Hess, on the other hand, can find bugs in the program and take advantage of the defects in the system. He soon realized that a program called GNu Emacs could provide super-user privilege, and with this privilege, he was like nobody in the lab. He found that a user had not logged in for several months and decided to borrow his account. His vigilance is very high. Every time he intrudes, he carefully observes the user's movements. Once he finds that the system administrator is monitoring, he immediately runs away.
In October, 1986, while drinking beer with Dobb and Hagerbard, Hess felt something was wrong, and they seemed to have some new plans. They mentioned a guy named Sergey in their talk, and they showed that there was a way to make money with computers. Two weeks later, Dobb offered to make a deal with Hess. As long as he gets a copy of the source code of Berkeley Unix (a Unix operating system version developed by the University of California, Berkeley), he will be rewarded heavily. Hess agreed. Berkeley Unix is widely used, and making a copy seems to be no big deal. Hess spent a week compiling Unix source code and handing it over to Carl. It was not until a month later that Dobb and Hagrid asked him out for a walk that Hess understood the seriousness of the matter. "The Unix source code was sold to the Soviet Union, which means that you are in the same boat with us now."
This confirms Hess's suspicion, and Dobb's words are no joke. Carl, Dobb, Hagrid, Pango and he are now a small spy group, selling computer information to the Soviets in exchange for money.
in p>1986, the idea of making money by hacking just appeared in west Germany. A Hamburg district prosecutor imagined that young hackers would use their computer expertise to engage in industrial espionage and even work for the Soviet Union. KGB officials who are good at manipulating others should have no difficulty in developing a few wayward children as spies. Not only the neurotic West German government and imaginative experts who study computer crimes have this concern, but hackers themselves are beginning to realize this possibility.
The hacker clique in Hanover decided to industrialize their hacking talents. In Dober's apartment, Carl, Dober and Hagrid discussed all night under the stimulation of marijuana. The first problem, of course, is how to connect with the Soviets. One way is to go to the Soviet Embassy in Bonn. Another way, perhaps from spy novels, is to put a small note in your passport and show it to the East German guards when crossing the border between East and West Berlin. Three people agreed that it was a good idea. Carl didn't have the technical genius of his partners, but he was brave and optimistic. He volunteered to meet in East Berlin. Their idea is simple: they are a group of hackers with access to some of the most sensitive computers in the world, from which they can steal the most confidential information, which is exactly what the Soviets need. Moreover, they can provide the Soviets with advanced software to help them catch up with the technologically advanced western countries. Why aren't the Soviets tempted? Of course, they know that it is illegal to do so. But by selling military and scientific information to the Soviet Union, they will be able to maintain the balance of power between the two superpowers, thus contributing to world peace. What's the name of this plan? Call it the "balanced plan".
The key point of this idea is that we should not teach the Soviets hacking skills, but constantly keep the Soviets' appetite satisfied with just the right information. If the Soviets want to know the tricks of hackers, it will be a one-time deal, and the price can't be too low. They decided to offer 1 million marks. With the increase of marijuana dosage, their imagination becomes more and more abundant. Why only do business with the Soviets? Why not add China people? The idea was quickly rejected because they thought that China was not a superpower. A balanced plan must focus on the target.