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INTERVIEW WITH CROM-CRUACH / TRIDENT / THE NETHERLANDS
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Give me a short description of who you are!
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- Hacker, Phreaker, Raver, Freak & Stoner...
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From where did you get your handle?
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- Crom-Cr#ach is the ancient Irish supreme Wormgod...
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When did you discover the world of computers?
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- About ten years ago a nephew had a BBC I used to screw up. Then some
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friends got C64s- and when the PC began to appear on the market, my
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father bought one...
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How long have you been active in the scene?
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- With the C64 I joined some Dutch demogroups, about 8 jears ago...
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How did you came into the virus business?
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- Some years ago the media started to hype about the New Danger- I was
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able to find a copy of Brain and Burger, debugged them to death
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(no sources...) and made a simple direct-action .com infector (never
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released, probably wiped out with one of my zillion hd-crashes).
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What part(s) of the underground do you think needs improvements?
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- The destructive part. I still can't figure why people smart enough
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to make a nice virus are unable to see that they harm both foes and
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friends with this... also, part of the underground still parties a
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lot, but doesn't do anything against the continuing decrease of their
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rights (Encryption ban/Clipper chip, war on drugs etc...)
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Positive/negative aspects of the scene?
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- Positive: The good tie between the groups, and the open distribution
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of knowledge.
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Negative: The quantity-above-quality attitude some still seem to
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have. Please, amaze the scene by something inventive instead of yet
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another boring dirct-action-.COM-infector!
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Have you been involved in any other group than Trident?
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- Yes, many, though this is the only specific virusgroup.
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Who started/created Trident?
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- Tardy, I thought...
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What's the groups goal?
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- Throw parties once in a while... ehrm, create and divide chaos?
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Who are the "leading/head-persons" in the group?
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- I can't really see a leader... we all program, each in our own style...
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What's your position in it?
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- Ehrm... virus author? :-)
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How is Trident (currently) organzied?
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- Not. Anarchy to the bone.
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Have you got any contacts with other virus-groups/programmers?
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- Yes, though I'm not really active in the swapping field...
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Can anyone ask for membership, or are you a "private" group?
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- Nah, it's private...
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Have you ever thought of/are you currently releasing some sort of
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electronic magazine?
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- I wrote a hypertext Hitchhiker's Guide to Viruses, and stopped at
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90%. When I've got time, I'll finish it. Someday ;-)
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Are you into other things such as hacking and phreaking aswell, or
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just viruses?
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- Yes, I've hacked and phreaked as well, though I haven't done this for
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quite some time...
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Do you have some network-connection (some sort of e-mail or something)?
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- Yes, cc@weeds.hacktic.nl...
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Can you name a few viruses that members of Trident has written?
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- Yep.
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Which of them have you written yourself?
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- I haven't released that many; Little Mess, Horns of Jericho, Weirdo
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and Cheeba were the only ones I believe- I rarely release my creations...
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I mostly write programs showing a specific hole in the system
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protection, I rarely build an entire virus around it...
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Which one was the hardest to write?
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- I really can't tell; I always write one because I want to try
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something new- this always took some time... Cheeba was my first
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EXE-infector; Little Mess spreads itself through Telix Salt-scripts,
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I had to figure that format- and Horns of Jericho ate its way through
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TB-Scan's .AVR files (if you can still remember TB using them...)- I
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had to figure out that format as well...
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Do you have any sort of company or law-enforcement who are trying to
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hunt Trident down?
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- Yes, the section Computercriminality of the CRI...
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Are they a real threat or just "childish"?
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- Neither; they mainly hunt authors of viruses that cause direct damage...
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Have you ever had any trouble in the group with the result of kicked
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member(s)?
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- No...
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How good are Trident comparing to other groups?
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- So, what answer do you expect? ;-)
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Do you call out aloth, and if so how? (phone/internet etc.)
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- I mainly hang out on the Internet, I rarely call BBSses...
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Do you have any couriers that spread your products around?
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- I do not spread my viruses; if I make one, I publish it in a mag...
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What do you think about the laws against h/p/v that has arrived
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lately?
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- They seem to make installation-disks illegal as well... I asked Harry
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Onderwater, the chief of the CRI on the hacktic.virus forum about
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this; he told he told he would give his view on this, but hasn't done
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this yet...
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What do you think about newspapers describing the scene as nerds?
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- Who cares about the opinions of somebody studying something this big
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for one single day?! I couldn't care less about those believing every-
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thing written in the newspapers...
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Has the scene in any way influented on your real life?
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- Yep, I met many friends there...
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Would you feel guilty if one of your viruses made damage to a hospital?
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- Yes; does this really need an explaination? I always try to make my
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viruses as compatible as possible, and surely don't make destructive
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ones. Sheesh, it is *way* more difficult to make something really non-
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destructive...
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Do you see any differences between the scene now and a couple of
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years ago (concerning the underground part ofcause)?
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- Yes, the scene seems to be more focused on personal freedom (Clipper
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chip, Drug laws etc...)
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Which virus-magazine do you think is the best avalible now-a-days?
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- All have their individual qualities. (Politically correct or what? ;-)
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Which virus-group/programmer do you admire/like?
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- The non-destructive ones which have the knowledge but still try to
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help others...
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Which country is the best virus-writing today? (before it was
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Bulgaria, maybe changed?)
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- Bulgaria isn't that active anymore- The US is pretty active, but
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considering the size of the Netherlands, I think our country is
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pretty good as well...
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Which virus-group(s) do you think is the best?
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- <#include Politically_Correct_Answer.h>
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What do you think about these virus generators, such as PS-MPC?
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- Good generators are real art...
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What do you think about the people using them?
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- Yawn. Wake up, learn some code!
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What do you think about people bragging over (almost) nothing
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and ragging with other groups aswell?
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- Well, I admire them. I wish I could be more like them ;-)
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What do you think about such individes as board-crashers?
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- They're ruining the scene, giving hackers a bad name... Luckily,
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they're usually morons unable to hack anything but some just-starting
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local bbsses...
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Describe the perfect virus :
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- A totally compatible multi-platform virus (Bites from IBM to Amiga
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to Mac to...)
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Describe the perfect viruscoder :
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- See abuv... -Creator
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Describe the AV-community with a few lines :
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- Nerds wearing anoracks and such. or- a bunch of would-be cover-girls
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eager to attract the public attention, smiling holy and in the
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meantime kicking eachother hard below the camera field... ;-)
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Which AV-program do think is the best?
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- F-Prot. It's reliable, has very a detailed virus name library and is
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free for individual use...
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What do you think about the underground's future?
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- I think the underground will become even more aimed against the
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governmental attempts to limit personal freedom (Clipper chip, net
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control, drug laws etc.)
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Do you know/heard of any new technics coming in the near future?
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- I'm pretty sure the PowerPC will give virus authors a wide scala of
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new possibilities...
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Any advice to people who want to learn the basic of virus-writing?
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- Try to figure most things out yourself- otherwise you'll force
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yourself into the same methods and problems the original author
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had, and are later on way less likely to come up with something
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new because you're stuck with the standard techniques...
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Something else you wish to say?
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- Quality above quantity!
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Do you wish to send any greets?
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- Nah, I always forget some very important one. Therefore, greetings
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to You, the reader (except if you consider yourself for some reason
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a foe; decide for yourself :-) |