Synopsis
Basic Communications Limited was a small ISP serving western Illinois from
1994-1997 when it was absorbed by AccessUS and then Anet.
Like most 4000 subscriber ISP’s of it’s time it specialized in giving exotic
second hand UNIX workstations new life as servers and mesmerizing displays of
blinkly lights from racks of 28.8 USR Sportster modems. A rainbow of NeXT,
SunOS, HPUX, IRIX, and Linux brought a world of possibility to our community and
especially a select few of the youth in town who spent equal parts hacking root
and accidentally crashing mail servers by emailing each other Warcraft 2 disk
sets.
This talk will appeal to the kid (hacker kid) in all of us, as well as old
school UNIX cats who will probably spend the rest of the con giving us the
network map of their high-school ISPs. We’ll cover a wide array of hacks and
antics inflicted by us and our cohorts, as well as try and capture the elegance
of early ISP’s that better resemble model trains than today’s enterprise
networks.
Bio
kevN has been building and breaking information systems for almost 20 years. He
is currently leading the security assessment group at US Bank. He’s held
principal roles in security consulting firms, led architecture and engineering
groups for large dot-coms, and built ISPs.
Dop is infrastructure assessment lead for US Bank. He specializes in systems
security engineering, traffic analysis, infrastructure penetration testing, and
making sense.
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