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- Diary of an AOL User Q.How did you get the idea to set up the HackersLab.org Free Hacking Zone(FHZ)? Mr. Lee Jeong-Nam, the founder of HackersLab, came up with the idea. For over 20 years, Mr. Lee served with the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA), and became the head of the cyber-crimes division when it was started in October of 1995. Mr. Lee was dissappointed in the way that so many youths were getting themselves into trouble. Confident in his ability to redirect their energies, Mr. Lee resigned from the KNPA and started HackersLab.com, a commercial computer security and network consulting firm. In any event... HackersLab.org is what Mr. Lee sees as a good way to contribute back to the community. Hacking isn't really about legal or illegal. It's about learning. Mr. Lee recognized this and wanted to provide a way for people to learn, without them having to meet his friends back at the KNPA. Going to jail is just not a good thing. Mr. Lee didn't like arresting people, but he had to. Providing a way for youths to learn how to hack ethically seemed to be the logical answer to the problem. So he created a way to do it. Q. This is just encouraging people to hack illegally, isn't it? Of course there're people worrying about this and we can't deny that entirely. However, if these hackers are employed for national security, law enforcement and in industry all the time. They help secure government secrets from espionage, protect bank IISs, write games, develop utilities, and much more. Their knowledge is like a goldmine for society. Take Eugene Tawaih for example. When he was an 18 year-old high school junior, he started to help the New York City Police Department track down pedophiles online. Q. Who supports HackersLab.org? HackersLab.com does. Q. How do I login to the drill server? A. Click on the Free Hacking Zone (FHZ) and then click the drill server telnet button. It is grey and on the left side of your browser. Q. Do I need to register? A. Yes. In order to read the problem related to each level, you will need to register. Q. Will I get tons of spam mail if I register. A. No. You will not. Q. How do I register? A. Click the "Register" button in the FHZ and follow the directions. Q. I can't register. Help. A. Make sure not to use odd characters like apostrophe's ('). You may use a dash (-). Q. I'm registered and I clicked the button. What do I do next? A. Type in 'level0' as your login, and 'guest' as your password. You will then be in. Q. Can I use another way to login? A. You may use any telnet client to connect to the drill server. Q. What is the address? A. The address is drill.hackerslab.org. The port is 23. Q. Can I enroll in the HackersLab academy? A. We do not currently offer distance learning. Nor do we offer classes in English at the moment. Q. Please let me know how to solve the level problems. A. No. It's up to you to learn for yourself. No one can do that for you. If we gave you the answers, there wouldn't be much point in it now, would there? Try reading the Freeboard for hints, or post a message there asking about the commands you might need to solve a level problem. Q. Please teach me some telnet commands. A. You don't need to know any telnet commands to solve any of the problems. You do need to know Linux / Unix commands though. Q. I get and error message like, "Internal Server Error, Resource Temporarily Unavailable." A. The server is running 24/7. If you encounter this error message, try disconnecting and trying again a little while later. Q. Where did all the files in the 'tmp' directory go? A. The files in the 'tmp' directory are cleaned up automatically at 20:00 GMT. If you are working on a problem, it is a good idea to keep a local copy of your scripts and / or files. Q. Someone posted all the answers to the HackersLab drill server problems. I worked hard to get to where I am, and I didn't cheat to do it either. Please do something about this! A. HackersLab is extremely well know in Korea, and there are companies that hire those who can pass our level problems. Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of sites out there that have posted tutorials and answers to the level problems. Some even trade them for money! Dead serious. We've had thousands of emails asking us to do something about this, insisting that only those who solve the level problems by themselves should be posted in the hall of fame. Well, we don't completely agree. Of course we want you to solve the problems by yourself, but the Internet is a place where everyone should be able to exchange information freely. As long as people keep within the boundaries of the law, then those freedoms should remain sacred. Many of the tutorials out there have some genuine learning material in them. Many of the authors didn't spend hours trying to figure out how to solve the problem just to give out easy answers. They post them there so that people can learn. It's up to you to decide whether you want to take the easy way out, or to genuinely take the initiative and become a real hacker. We're all hoping that you take the road less travelled. Q. I posted a message on a level homepage, but someone deleted it. Please do something about this so that others don't do this. A. "Ok. Everybody... please play nice..." That's about all we can do. We trust you all to play nice out there, so try and keep things clean. We know that at the lower levels, people have a harder time as they are on a learning curve. Mistakes are bound to happen, and pages will get erased. But at the end of the day, it is all of you out there who are the real owners of the pages. You are really in control of the situation. |