What the hack

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What The Hack (as corruption of the English What the heck? To German "What the hell?") Was the fifth event of a series of open-air hacker conferences, which in the four-year cycle in the Netherlands take place, in this case from the 28th until July 31, 2005 in Liempde (municipality of Boxtel , North Brabant). Its predecessors were the Galactic Hacker Party in 1989 , Hacking at the End of the Universe in 1993 , Hacking In Progress in 1997 and Hackers At Large in 2001 .

These camps were brought into being by activists from the small hacker magazine Hack-Tic . The "Stichting HAL2001" foundation, which they set up with private funds, acted as the organizer. Co-organizer was the Chaos Computer Club , which has organized three Chaos Communication Camps so far .

After temporary difficulties with the necessary approval, the conference was able to take place as planned.

Attendees

Around 3000 participants from almost all European countries and overseas came to the four-day What The Hack .

Villages

The camp itself was divided into thematic “villages” so that like-minded people could find each other more easily, to exchange ideas on the respective topics or to work together on projects.

There were around 50 villages , including:

  • Wireless Village (where a mesh network was available)
  • Chaos Village of the CCC
  • ReHash Village , where all of the camp's videos were collected and digitized
  • OpenBSD Village , in which there was among other things OpenBSD and the corresponding merchandising
  • Family Village , with self-organized child care

Each participant could set up a village without having to specify the topic and size. Therefore, there were also many smaller villages that were meeting points for certain groups or nationalities (such as "British Embassy", "Belgian Embassy").

activities

In addition to Village workshops, there was a lecture program on topics such as computer security , software patents , freedom of information and biometrics .

In addition, areas for partying or relaxing were set up. For example, there was a sun-protected area with hammocks and a “megabit” tent with various arcade machines, pinball machines and a dance floor. In the evenings, well-known songs from the 1970s and 1980s were played there.

Peg DHCP implemented: clothespins and information cards from What the Hack!

Internet connection

During the event, a fast internet connection (one gigabit over three kilometers of fiber optics) and WLAN ( IEEE 802.11a / b / g ) were provided.

On April 1, 1998, the Peg DHCP method, first applied to Hacking in Progress , of using clothespins labeled with IP addresses, was published as RFC 2322 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "At hackers conference, orderly mayhem rules". New York Times , July 29, 2005, accessed November 11, 2009 .
  2. ^ A b Douglas Heingartner: "Geeks gather at 'What The Hack' conference". USA TODAY , July 28, 2005, accessed November 11, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Schulz: "Falling in: dozens of news sites take over from hackers". Der Spiegel , June 29, 2005, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Detlef Borchers: What the Hack: From open biometrics to open research. Heise Online, August 1, 2005, accessed April 22, 2017 .

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