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INTERVIEW WITH DARK HELMET / TRIDENT / THE NETHERLANDS
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Give me a short description of who you are!
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- Well I'm male, 24 years old and I'm last year
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student computer science.
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From where did you get your handle, Dark Helmet?
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- I got the name from a film of Mel Brooks called 'Spaceballs'. The
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film itself is a parody on the Sciene Fiction films.
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When did you discovered the world of computers?
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- I think I was about 10 years old when I got my first game computer
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(a Philips ..., I forgot the name). Later when I was about 14, I
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bought a C64 (great computer) then 4 years later I bought an Atari
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520 ST computer. And a couple years later a PC, which I still use
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today.
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How long have you been active in the scene?
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- I think about a 2 years, about 6 months after I bought my PC.
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How did you came into the virus business?
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- I got involved with viruses at my school. At that time people didn't
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know much about viruses and when the school got hit by a virus I
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wanted to know more about these things. So I started to collect
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viruses. Thats how I got in contact with <Sorry censored!> who just
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had started with <More Censor!> a Hack/Phreak/Virus BBS. After just
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collecting I tried to write my own virus. So I wrote my first virus
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a overwriting non-resident virus of 44 bytes. It took me about 3
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hours to write it because I hadn't programmed in assembler before.
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Most of knowledge I got from books that you can buy at you local
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bookshop.
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Have you been involved in any other group than Trident?
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- Nope..
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Who started/created Trident?
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- I think it was Tardy who started the group. He also came up with the
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name TridenT. There where four members when the group started. John
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Tardy, Peter Venkman, Bit Addict and Dark Helmet (me). The group was
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founded in the summer of '92.
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What's the groups goal?
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- To write viruses and to exchange idea's
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How many people are you?
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- don't know, I think 8 or 9.
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What's their handles?
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- Bit Addict
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Dark Helmet
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xxxxxxxxxxxxx (more censor!)
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xxxxxxxxx (look above!!)
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Masud Khafir
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Crom Cruach
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John Tardy
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Dark Ray
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NighBird??? (don't know this one)
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Do all of them program, if not, what's the others job?
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- most of them program, the others do other stuff like xxxxxxxxx who
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xxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [This is getting too much censoring!]
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Who are the "leading/head-persons" in the group?
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- Well there isn't a leading/head person or something like that.
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Everyone does the things he likes.
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How is Trident (currently) organzied?
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- Not...well loose, we do have regular meetings and so and we have a
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internal network between the members.
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Have you got any contacts with other virus-groups/programmers?
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- There are some contacts with the other main viruswriting
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groups in the virusworld. And there is also some sort
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of contact with other virusprogrammers in the Netherland.
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Can anyone ask for membership, or are you a "private" group?
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- Everyone can join as long as he is willing to accept the rules
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What does it take to join up?
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- Stick with the rules :
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no racism in viruses
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no destructive viruses
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if you can write a virus it will help...
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Have you ever thought of/are you currently releasing some sort of
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electronic magazine (text/executable/hard-copy)
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- Yea, well we have discussed this idea a long time, but because of the
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new laws in the netherland we didn't do it....
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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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- Well a the beginning I did a little bit of hacking aswell but I
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stopped with that because the phone bills got to high
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Do you have some network-connection?
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- You can reach me at Nuke-net, adresses it to Dark Helmet and I will
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read it ( I hope).
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Can you name a few viruses/engines that members of Trident has
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written?
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- TPE, Horns of Jericho, Crusher, Civil War, Gotcha, and so on...
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Which of them have you written yourself?
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- Civil war(s), Ritzen and some other
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Which one was the hardest to write?
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- None virus writing isn't that hard..
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Do you have any sort of company or law-enforcement who are trying
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to hunt Trident down?
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- Yea, the CRI, I think Tardy can you tell more about this.
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If so, are they a real threat or just "childish"?
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- No, they are a real threat to us...
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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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- Nope, because nobody is kicked out...
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How good are Trident comparing to other groups?
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- We are the best...( well at least we are in the top 3 )
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Do you have any couriers that spread your products around?
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- No, I upload the creation to a Vx board and then it will spread itself
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What do you think about the laws against h/p/v that has arrived lately?
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- I here they are becoming a problem to us, because you have to be very
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carefull that you don't break the law
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Would you feel guilty if one of your viruses made damage to a hospital?
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- I don't thinks so, because I don't feel responsible if someone else
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start releasing viruses in the wild. As a matter of fact I think that
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the most viruswriters don't spread there creation around in the wild.
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I think that the whole virus problem is exaggerated by some anti-virus
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people.
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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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- Well its much more organized then a few years back, and there
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is also more contact with the other groups and viruswriters.
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and there are now much more people involved then
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a few years back.
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Which virus-magazine do you think is the best avalible now-a-days?
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- Crypt and 40Hex, I like Crypt for the news and 40hex for the news and
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programming stuff
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Which virus-group/programmer do you admire/like?
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- No one..,I don't believe in that hero stuff andso..
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Which country is the best virus-writing today?
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- Maybe Russia, don't know exactly...
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Which virus-group(s) do you think is the best?
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- I think Phalcon/Skism is very good.
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What do you think about these virus generators, such as VCL or PS-MPC?
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IVP, NUKE-GV etc. etc.?
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- I'm working on my own virus generator now, that will generating
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viruses the polymorphic way. It was planned to be ready last xmas,
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but some things came up and I don't know when I finnish it yet.
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What do you think about the people using them?
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- Well I don't see the fun of using a virusconstructor and generate
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a virus and spread it. I mean whats the point of it. Be orginal and
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try to write your own virus.
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What do you think about people bragging over (almost) nothing and
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ragging with other groups aswell?
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- ignore them...
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What do you think about such individes as board-crashers?
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- Depends on the reason for crashing the board. But if there is no
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good reason I see it as pure vandalism.
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Describe the perfect virus :
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- I don't think there is suchs thing as a perfect virus, every virus
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has some negative aspects....
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Which AV-program do think is the best, and why?
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- F-Prot, it has a easy to use user-interface, and it has a good
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detection rate of viruses. For students its free.
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What do you think about the underground's future?
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- I think there is no more real underground, I think is will more public
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in the future. Next I believe that the underground will become more
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organzied both in contact between each other as in more groups.
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Any advice to people who want's to learn the basic of virus-writing?
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- 1. Buy a good book. (I learned a lot of 'Advanced MS-DOS programming,
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by Ray Duncan, second edition, Microsoft Press, Redmond WA, USA)
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2. Then get some real viruses and study them.
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3. Try to write a simple virus, like a overwriting one, or a simple
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non-resident infector, then move up to resident ones and so on.
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Something else you wish to say?
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Sorry that I don't have more time to fill out all the question, and that
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I didn't have time to remove all the spelling and grammar error. If you
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have anything to ask, you can reach me xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Do you wish to send any greets?
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- Sure...Greetings to :
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Alie, Anja, Claudine, Christine, Dyonne, Erik, Frank, Gertie, Jos,
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Linda, Liesbeth, Mari<72>le, Marcel M., Marcel T., Mildred, Mike,
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Norbert, Peter, Ralph, Roger C., Roger H., Victoir |