Reverse Corruption's fun ass time at Rubi-Con... 9:30 am Friday... Got up.. got dressed.. started parking shit into my truck. Got it all packed around 11:30am and left for the con... Fucking Detroit traffic sucks.. an hour traffic jam screwed me out of an hour. Got to down town Detroit and found out that I lost the fucking directions to the hotel. Pulled over into some church parking lot and grabbed my laptop and Streets 98 CD. I found the place in 5 minutes. :-P Parked and headed inside to see what was going on... Walked by the generator just in time to see them hanging the wire up and putting it inside the window. Asked the guys at the front desk where the hell my Volunteer pass was. They didn't know who I was.. Thoughts bastards! I had to find Ben and tell him that I was here and to tell the bastards behind the desk that I was a Volunteer. Went into the network room... what a fucking mess of wires. All of which were not even terminated. Fuck.. that means I might have to start terminating. I got all the shit out of my truck and started to find out exactly what was going on.. Seen all the regular people.. NFF, Jim, Nate, Dark Cube, Kea Kea, etc... It was cool all ready. Every thing was running smooth for the most part. The generator was the main issue at the moment, so I decided to help out.. I went down to find out what was going on.. The were about to sink a 6 ft rod into the dirt on the side of the building. I started pounding and hit what I thought was rock.. So tried again.. This time it felt like concrete. Well it was everywhere. We had to find a different ground. We decided to wire it up to a nice big fire hydrant.. but we had no clamp.. so we wired it to a water spicket that was outside. Tested the generator next.. All was OK. I talked to the guy who was hooking up the Generator, and he gave me a Motorola i600 cell phone that he thought was dead. This kicked ass. Woohoo.. the speaker system for the network room was here! :-P I grabbed my MP3 box and my mixer and had some fun.. About 3 hours latter I was done and put up Win-Amp. I decided to catch a bit of a speaker. Went to see Rick Forno for a few minutes. I got done and was talking to people.. I overheard something about people on the 4th floor and the elevator equipment on the roof. Well I then decided to do a little building hacking... I went to the roof first... It was amazingly easy to get up there. Soo... I decide then to find out how to get to the 4th floor and look around. I found the entrance and squeezed between the doors. I walked all around looking for anything interesting. When I got to the south side, I heard footsteps in what I thought was a room next to me. Well.. seeming how there was more than one person, I knew it wasn't Security. I decided to be security for a few minutes and yelled "Security! Who is there!?" Well needless to say I scared the shit out of some fellow building hackers, and these people had a nice video camera. I then decided to tell them where the entrance to the 4th floor was. We all got together and finished our exploits upon the building. It was very fun. P.S. If the person that was shooting the video would Please convert it to digital format (DIVIX maybe?) and put it up on the web, I would love to have a copy!!!. This was about the time I was getting tired. I went down stairs in time to see round one of Win NFF's T- shirts.. in which case NFF was drunk off his ass. I joined up with the group "fuck this shit" It was fun as hell, however I was getting mad because some answers were flat wrong, there for I decided to resign from the group early and leave to get something to eat. Me Nate and a few other people decided to go. Nate and I talked a lot, from everything about SS7 to what to do about the nice fingerer print scanners I had. After that I decided to get Nate to go with me on another building exploration. We went to the roof and the 4th floor, but our exploration got cut short. On the way to the basement, we stopped on one of the floors and found out that NFF was being taken to the hospital because of alcohol poisoning. I held the elevator and seen him leave to the hospital. It was bad. After I had seen NFF being taken to the hospital every thing started getting bleared. I remember configuring my MicroVAX to let people hack on it and trying to sleep in the network room before finding a nice place in the conference room to sleep. I woke up bad.. feeling like shit and about to puke. I needed some antacids. I found some thanks to some unknown person. I started to feel better and decided to go to get something to eat. People at the caf were getting pissed because "thoughts people at the conference were destroying the fucking building" I agreed and expressed that I was also pissed, but I also explained that there is always a few bad people in a bunch. After buying some cookies and juice, I found my self back in the network room playing more music. I do remember seeing a bit of Richard Thieme's speech but was busy with the network room and announcing what speaker was on next. I spent most of my morning in the network room or out talking to people in the caf. I answered some questions found people fucking with the DSL connection and told people to stop DOS'ing .mil and AT&T sites. I sold my fingerer print scanner for 35$ and also traded my LCD Terminal Emulator for a PCMCIA card that was compatible with OpenBSD. I was going to buy a Proxim RangeLAN2 card but I didn't have 50$ to spend. :-( Somewhere around here Nate came back from home with a green composite monitor and some other wicked cool stuff for me. I give him props for the Cell phone batteries and chargers for my Motorola i600 that was giving to me. The Motorola Worked!!! Woohoo... Now I had to find out if the damn thing was stolen. :-P NFF shows back up. The rumor was that his blood alcohol content was 1.83%. There was a second un- confirmed rumor that it was 1.9% (no that 2.3% is legally dead). None the less he was alive and kicking. Doing all the stuff he was doing the day before, only not drunk. Nate also came back with a screw gun and pad lock. Come to find out, some one had kicked the door to the DSL room and was fucking with the phone patch panel. The fuckers disconnected a few lines. It was up to the conference managers to do something (notably Jim, NFF, Nate, Ben, and the others). It really pisses me off when people destroy property like this. It doesn't take a genius to find out you can use a screwdriver to get into the room instead of kicking the door down! There was no reason to break the door. Just like there was no reason to tag the elevators or disconnect phone lines. Anyway Some time around now the Industrial band showed up. The guy that was setting up the equipment was really cool. He knew a lot about Telco and shit. I decided to listen to them for a while. After they were done Dark Cube and his crew took over. They spun some shit in the network room for a while. This was about the time the Win NFF's T-shirt Finials were going on. I witnessed more of Nick's worthless question blunders. Questions that were correct counted wrong etc.. Then there was the Speed round! That was fun. Soo.. what where the name's of the people in NFF's room when he passed out?? Heh.. Next was Dark Cubes Social Engineering panel and fun. (more fun than anything) man who would have known that Ziff Davis publishing's contract with Microsoft ran dry 10 months ago?? :-P It was around this time that I met a really nice girl. I really wish I could have remembered her name. :-/ This little cute chick that was hanging around D.C. and his girl friend. I guess it's OK that I don't know her name, since she doesn't know mine. We sat an talked for a while about worthless... Me laying on the floor drifting and looking at the ceiling. She was cool.. (even though I was so tired that she thought I was drunk) after a bit of drifting I was ok again and went down stairs to get some food and to force Alpha Wolf to sober up a bit. All I really remember about that was a very bad image of Janet Reno in fish net's.. Eak.. I had to make a better image in my mind so I went to find the girl that D.C. knew. I told her I was going to D.C.'s room to sleep, she for some reason decided to go with me and some how we ended up sleeping in the same bed.. (Makes me wonder if anything happened. :-/ ) non the less she disappeared before I got a chance to say bye. Well who ever you are, Thanks for a great memory. After that I got up and started packing my shit up to leave. I asked Jim if he needed help cleaning up, and he said the hotel was taking care of it. I laughed and started packing my shit up in my truck. At the end everyone left. It was all good. Thing's Missing: 1 PCMCIA card that was compatible with OpenBSD (dam it!!! ) 1 Book on Apache Web Server (why would anyone want this anyway??) 1 White Telephone (dam it.. I left it in the Conference room. But it was a cheep 10$ one anyway) Reverse Corruption