Hackers

This is the very first episode of the Net Cafe series. It was shot on location at a cybercafe in San Francisco called CoffeeNet. It looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet. Guests include Dan Farmer, author of SATAN and COPS; Eliaz Levi (aka Aleph 1), webmaster of underground.org and Bugtraq; also "Omega" and "White Knight" from Cult of the Dead Cow. Originally broadcast in 1996.

This item is part of the collection: Net Cafe

Keywords: CDC; r00t; Def Con

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Reviewer: saxguyty - - August 7, 2007
Subject: more TV modem info

http://www.entechnology.com/TVM.html

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:l9qsHSgaYckJ:muse.jhu.edu/demo/leonardo/v034/34.1knott.html+cybercast+technology+%22TV+modem%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2

Reviewer: bleep - - July 23, 2007
Subject: TV modem?

What the [**] is a TV modem?! Can the data still be extracted? It looks like the analog tape and MPEG encoding has partly ruined it. For start and end markers, there's just a gray line along the left side, and a white triangle on the bottom left. I don't see any clear segment markers. The top left bits seem to stay put most of the time, and maybe there's a sequence number next to it.

The framerate is 29,970, which is the same as the original NTSC signal (assuming it was taped in the US). But the signal is far from perfect. There's a bit of ghosting that may have been there in the original broadcast, but the most devastating effect seems to stem from the MPEG encoding. In most frames, vertical boundaries of pixel blocks (seams) are clearly visible.

I guess the "Cyber Blast!" logo seperates files. Some of the files are very short. Perhaps they are readme's or install guides. At the start and end of each file, distinctive patterns are shown. I think the EOF pattern is a kind of padding. I've uploaded some of those frames to imageshack:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7977/00000031lc5.png
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8642/00000043du0.png
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6956/00000079zq4.png
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/833/00000080fz4.png
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6349/00000081vp5.png
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4380/00002011bn0.png
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8210/00002012gp1.png

"Cyber Blast!" seems to have disappeared from the web, but the wayback machine still has a few tidbits:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961113131440/www.pctv.com/PCTV/shows/TIC/TIC.html#CB
http://web.archive.org/web/19961227095657/http://www.entechnology.com/

Reviewer: humaxy - - January 5, 2007
Subject: Thank you

Thank you for the wonderful effort

Reviewer: cyberhacker665 - - November 24, 2006
Subject: I loved itt. Thanks for the cool upload

It was cool

Reviewer: agent - - May 31, 2005
Subject: KISS.

We do not learn from our mistakes.