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phrack.org:~# cat .bash_history
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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume 0x0b, Issue 0x3e, Phile #0x04 of 0x10
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|=---------------=[ P R O P H I L E O N S C U T ]=-------------------=|
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|=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=|
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|=------------------------=[ Phrack Staff ]=-----------------------------=|
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|=---=[ Specification
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Handle: scut
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AKA: "The Tower"
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Handle origin: Result of spelling "SCUD rocket" as a 12 year
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old when making up a handle
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catch him: by email scut@segfault.net
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Age of your body: 23
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Produced in: West Germany
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Height & Weight: 198cm, 85kg
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Urlz: segfault.net/~scut/
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Computers: COTS, anything goes ;)
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Member of: TESO
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Projects: exploitation methods, low level architecture
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wrangling, code analysis and transformation
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|=---=[ Favorite things
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Women: intelligent, humorous, self-confident and caring
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Cars: BMW = fast, functional and reliable
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Foods: Chinese, German cake
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Alcohol: Mixed drinks (Tequila + *), white wine
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Music: U2, 60-70'ies, ambient, new age
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Movies: Leon, Matrix
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Books & Authors: I dislike fiction, various scientific books
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Urls: phrack.org/ ;-), citeseer.ist.psu.edu/directory.html
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I like: digging some problem to the deepest level
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I dislike: unjustified authorities, arrogance, ignorance
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|=---=[ Life in 3 sentences
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Born 1980, I just lived a normal peaceful life in Germany. Finished school,
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high school quite well, went to the military service, started studying.
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Currently I am studying abroad and thats possibly the most exciting experience
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so far ;-)
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|=---=[ Passions | What makes you tick
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To create. In anything I do, I enjoy creating something and deepen my
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understanding of it. Somehow, however, I lose interest as soon as I think I
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could understand something completely, but that it would take too much effort.
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|=---=[ Which research have you done or which one gave you the most fun?
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Looking back on the few things I have done, I think it was always fun to
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tickle people intellectually. The most fun was writing burneye, a simple
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runtime binary encryption program. I learned lots while doing it and it had
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some minor impact aswell. Also I wrote a paper about format string
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vulnerabilities. This was fun to write and back at that time everybody was
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very curious about this newly discovered class of security vulnerabilities.
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The basic work was already done and it was fun just to make a few steps
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further. While its always the case that you have to base your work on someone
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else's, sometimes you get the feeling of doing something truly new or
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creative. Then, its always fun.
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|=---=[ Memorable Experiences
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CCCamp 1999, when all TESO members first met eye-to-eye and where we had lots
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of fun together. Meeting interesting people, such as some of the ADM folks.
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All the CCC congresses and all the fun that comes with them: friends, beer,
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and new contacts. Meeting the THC guys, having beer with wilkins and plasmoid.
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|=---=[ Quotes
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"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." - Richard W. Hamming
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|=---=[ Open Interview - General boring questions
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Q: When did you start to play with computers?
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A: Due to my father working in the computing field I was lucky to first tap
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some keys at the age of six, around 1985. First hooked up through games I
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quickly liked the idea to control the machine myself and was fascinated to
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write my first BASIC program on the C64 when I was nine. This fascination has
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not decreased ever since, though the languages and computers changed a lot ;-)
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Q: When did you had your first contact to the 'scene'?
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A: As many of todays people in the hacking scene, the natural path leads
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through the warez and cracking realms. In 1995 I was browsing some BBS's and
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thats how I was drawn into that scene. Then, in the following two years, I
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moved away from Windows/Warez to more Linux/Programming, and more or less by
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end of 1997 I was completely into this thing.
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Q: When did you for your first time connect to the internet?
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A: Through the German Telekom BTX internet gateway, that must have been 1995.
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Q: What other hobbies do you have?
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A: Martial arts (currently Sanda Wushu, previously some Muaythai) and other
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sports, having fun with friends. Learning Chinese.
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Q: ...and how long did it take until you joined irc? Do you remember
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the first channel you joined?
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A: #warez.de in 1996 on IrcNet.
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Q: What's your architecture / OS of choice?
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A: IA32 with Debian/sid. Its constantly updated, the packagers know their
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stuff and its a system by and for developers. I love it.
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|=---=[ Open Interview - More interesting questions
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Q: Who founded TESO and what's the meaning of the name?
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A: TESO was founded in 1998 by typo, edi, stanly and oxigen, some austrian
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hackers.
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Q: What's TESO up to these days?
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A: I would like to describe us as not active anymore. There are a couple of
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reasons for this. One is the natural shift of interest of members, such as
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when growing up and having a daytime job. But more importantly, the most
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previously most active members do not release their work under the TESO label
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anymore. Sometime ago, we also had internal trust problems where we did not
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know who leaked our internal stuff. This lead to general distrust and some
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developing stopped or slowed due to that. Sad thing.
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Q: You have helped phrack in many occasions. What do you think about Phrack?
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What suggestions do you have for phrack?
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A: I think phrack is the single best starting point for anyone seriously
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interested in learning how to become a real low level hacker. One could start
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ten issues in the past and gradually sharpen the skills to almost the today's
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cutting edge. The style, quality and focus of the articles is very diverse and
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always makes for an interesting read.
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In the past year, Phrack started to work closer with the authors of the
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articles to produce higher quality articles for the readers. This is a great
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idea! Maybe further steps into this direction could follow.
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For the article topics, I personally would like to see more articles on
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upcoming technologies to exploit, such as SOAP, web services, .NET, etc.
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Q: What are you up to these days? How has the scene-life influenced your
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lifestyle, goals and personality?
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A: Nowadays, I am more of a computer science student than a scene member. The
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scene did not change me so much. Its a great place to meet intelligent people
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and to discuss new ideas.
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Q: You have been in the scene for quite a while. If you look back, what
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was the worst thing that happened to the scene? What was the best
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that happened?
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A: The worst was a bad long term development with an even worse backlash: the
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commercialization of the network security field. When the Internet really
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boomed, everybody was out to make a buck from selling security related
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products and services. A lot of former hackers "sold out". While its their
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personal choice to work in the security business and such business is not
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necessarily evil, for the scene it wasn't all that great.
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The worse result has been the gap between once united hackers. Some people
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drew a more or less arbitrary line of black-/whitehatism and started dividing
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the scene even further. The result you can see nowadays is that there are some
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separated groups in the scene piling up non public knowledge, while the "entry
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level skill" required to really be in the scene is increased and less people
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get into the scene. Those knowledgeable groups still have "whitehats" among
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their members, but nobody cares, because for the group it just works well and
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everybody within wins. On a wider scale, everybody loses and the cooperation
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and development of really creative new stuff is slowed and the scene shrinks.
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Fresh talented people wanting to get into the scene have no choice but to
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found their own teams.
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The best thing for the scene were and still are the hacker events organized
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all around the world. They are a great contact point of the hackers and to the
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outside world.
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Q: If you could turn the clock backwards, what would you do different
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in your young life ?
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A: Be more relaxed about people posting my stuff although I did not wanted it
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to be public. It just caused trouble for everybody and in the end its more
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a fault on my side than on theirs.
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=---=[ One word comments
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[give a 1-word comment to each of the words on the left]
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IRC : timeconsumptive
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TESO : dreamteam
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ADM : pioneers
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Hacker meetings : melting-pot
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Whitehats : do not always wear white hats
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Blackhats : do not always wear black hats
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|=---=[ Please tell our audience a worst case scenario into what the scene
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might turn into.
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The extension to the bad development that already took place and I described
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in an earlier answer would include more company driven actions and sell outs.
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Possibly the worst long term thing for the scene would be a decrease in the
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scene's lose "infrastructure", such as magazines and conferences. This could
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be the result of stricter laws against hackers and already takes place in some
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countries. Imagine if the typical hacker conferences would be outlawed or
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strictly observed. Imagine when magazines such as Phrack would be shutdown.
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Imagine if groups like THC and websites like Packetstorm would be shutdown.
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That would be a bad development.
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|=---=[ And if everything works out fine? What's the best case scenario
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you can imagine?
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The scene would be driven by discussions, new inventions, creative hacking
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stunts and a large number social events. Hackers would stick closer together,
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yet share more of their work, yet allowing newcomers to learn. People would
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not crawl for fame on mailing lists but would honestly respect each other.
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To archieve this ideal, things that unite all hackers have to be valued
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more. All hackers share the enthusiasm for technology and creativity.
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Creativity is seldomly the result of sitting alone in a locked down room, but
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quite the opposite the result of many diverse ideas and discussions among
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intelligent people. If the environment hackers interact with each others in
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permits for exchange of ideas without getting ripped off by companies or other
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hackers, this would result in a great scene.
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|=---=[ Any suggestions/comments/flames to the scene and/or specific people?
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I think some young talents are really doing a great job. Keep going!
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|=---=[ Shoutouts & Greetings
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hendy, for being a long time trustable, reliable and humorous friend.
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stealth, die andere Nase, for intellectual challenges and always coming up
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with really cool stuff.
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Halvar, skyper, gamma for making the hacker events real fun and organizing
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everything.
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lorian, for being a smart guy.
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acpizer, for his wisdom and stubborness.
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The folks at THC and ADM for doing really cool stuff.
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|=[ EOF ]=---------------------------------------------------------------=|
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