What The Hack

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

Were brought into being these camps of activists of the little hacker magazine Hack- Tic. As the organizer, the foundation established by it with private funds " Stichting HAL2001 " occurred. Co - organizer was the Chaos Computer Club, which has so far organized three Chaos Communication Camp.

Participant

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

Villages

The camp itself was divided into themed " villages ", so that like-minded people could find it easier to exchange to the respective topics can or work on projects together.

There were around 50 Villages, among them were:

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

Each participant was able to found a village, without that there were guidelines to theme and size. Therefore, there were also many smaller Villages, which collection point for certain groups or nationalities (such as "British Embassy ", "Belgian Embassy ").

Activities

Besides Village workshops, there was a lecture program with topics such as computer security, software patents, freedom of information and biometrics.

In addition, areas were set up to celebrate or relax. For example, there was a sun- protected area with hammocks and a " megabits " tent with various arcade machines, pinball and a dance floor. In the evenings you were there sonicated with well-known songs from the 1970s and 1980s.

Internet connection

During the event ( gigabit over three kilometers of fiber optic ) and wireless (IEEE 802.11a/b/g) was taken care of for a fast internet connection.

Was the method to Hacking in Progress for the first time applied Peg DHCP, IP addresses to use labeled clothespins, as RFC 2322 published on 1 April 1998.

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