Digital DawgPound
Encyclopedia
The Digital DawgPound is a group of hackers
, best known for a series of articles in hacker magazines such as 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
and Make
, the longrunning webcast Binary Revolution Radio, and a very active set of forums with posts from high-profile hackers such as Strom Carlson, decoder, Phiber Optik and StankDawg
. The stated mission of the DDP is to propagate a more positive image of hackers than the negative mass media
stereotype. The group welcomes new members who want to learn about hacking, and attempts to teach them more positive aspects and steer them away from the negative aspects, by reinforcing the hacker ethic
. Their goal is to show that hackers can, and regularly do, make positive contributions not only to technology, but to society as a whole.
. His stated reasons were that he had made many friends in the hacking scene and thought that it would be useful to have everyone begin working together in a more organized fashion. He was motivated by the fact that there had been other well known Hacker Groups
in the 1980s who had accomplished great things in the hacking world such as the LoD
and the MoD
. In 1988, while a junior in high school, StankDawg came up with the name on his way to the "Sweet 16" computer programming competition. He jokingly referred to his fellow teammates as "The Digital Dawgpound".
StankDawg lurked in the shadows of the hacking world for many years throughout college under many different pseudonym
s. In 1997 he popped his head out into the public and began becoming more active on IRC and many smaller hacking forums. He saw some insanely brilliant people who seemed to have the same mindset and positive attitude towards hacking that he did, so he decided to approach a couple of them to see if they'd be interested. There was always a huge emphasis not only on technical competence and variety, but also on strength of character and integrity. DDP members are good programmers and hackers, but more importantly, they're good people. By 1999 the DDP had its first members and from this partnership, creativity flowed.
The DDP communicated and worked together on StankDawg's personal site, which was open to anyone who wanted to join in on the fun. StankDawg was never comfortable with the fact that it was his name that was on the domain and that many people who were coming to the site were coming because of his articles or presentations but not really appreciating all of the other great community members that were around. In 2002, after watching the web site grow quickly, it was decided that a new community needed to be created for these like-minded hackers who were gathering. This was the start of the biggest DDP project called Binary Revolution which was an attempt at starting a true "community" of hackers. As the site grew, so did the DDP roster.
and Blacklisted! 411 magazine including StankDawg and bland_inquisitor. They frequently publish articles, provide content, and appear on many media sources across the global Interweb. DDP members are also regular speakers at hacking conferences such as DEF CON
, H.O.P.E.
, and Interzone
.
The majority of DDP members are college graduates and have professional experience in the computer industry. Some work for Fortune 500
companies, while others have been entrepreneurs who have created successful businesses. They hold memberships in Mensa
and the International High IQ society.
Binary Revolution Radio, often shortened to "BRR", is one small part of the binrev community. It is common for people to discover BRR on one of the many podcast sites or applications out there and not realize that the "Binary Revolution" refers to a larger community than just the radio show. When people refer to "BinRev" they should not be referring only to the radio show. They should be referring to the community of projects as a whole, specifically focusing on the forums.
,
HackADay,
Hacked Gadgets, and others.
Hacker (computer security)
In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge...
, best known for a series of articles in hacker magazines such as 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes ,...
and Make
Make (magazine)
Make is an American quarterly magazine published by O'Reilly Media which focuses on do it yourself and/or DIWO projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines...
, the longrunning webcast Binary Revolution Radio, and a very active set of forums with posts from high-profile hackers such as Strom Carlson, decoder, Phiber Optik and StankDawg
StankDawg
David Blake , also known as StankDawg, is the founder of the hacking group Digital DawgPound and a long-time member of the hacking community...
. The stated mission of the DDP is to propagate a more positive image of hackers than the negative mass media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
stereotype. The group welcomes new members who want to learn about hacking, and attempts to teach them more positive aspects and steer them away from the negative aspects, by reinforcing the hacker ethic
Hacker ethic
Hacker ethic is the generic phrase which describes the moral values and philosophy that are standard in the hacker community. The early hacker culture and resulting philosophy originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s and 1960s...
. Their goal is to show that hackers can, and regularly do, make positive contributions not only to technology, but to society as a whole.
History
The DDP was originally founded and named by StankDawgStankDawg
David Blake , also known as StankDawg, is the founder of the hacking group Digital DawgPound and a long-time member of the hacking community...
. His stated reasons were that he had made many friends in the hacking scene and thought that it would be useful to have everyone begin working together in a more organized fashion. He was motivated by the fact that there had been other well known Hacker Groups
Hacker groups
Hacker groups began to flourish in the early 1980s, with the advent of the home computer. Prior to that, the term hacker was simply a referral to any computer hobbyist. The hacker groups were out to make names for themselves, and were often spurred on by their own press...
in the 1980s who had accomplished great things in the hacking world such as the LoD
Legion of Doom (hacking)
The Legion of Doom was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000. Their name appears to be a reference to the antagonists of Challenge of the Superfriends...
and the MoD
Masters of Deception
Masters of Deception was a New York-based hacker group. MOD reportedly controlled all the major telephone RBOC's and X.25 networks as well as controlling large parts of the backbone of the rapidly emerging Internet....
. In 1988, while a junior in high school, StankDawg came up with the name on his way to the "Sweet 16" computer programming competition. He jokingly referred to his fellow teammates as "The Digital Dawgpound".
StankDawg lurked in the shadows of the hacking world for many years throughout college under many different pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
s. In 1997 he popped his head out into the public and began becoming more active on IRC and many smaller hacking forums. He saw some insanely brilliant people who seemed to have the same mindset and positive attitude towards hacking that he did, so he decided to approach a couple of them to see if they'd be interested. There was always a huge emphasis not only on technical competence and variety, but also on strength of character and integrity. DDP members are good programmers and hackers, but more importantly, they're good people. By 1999 the DDP had its first members and from this partnership, creativity flowed.
The DDP communicated and worked together on StankDawg's personal site, which was open to anyone who wanted to join in on the fun. StankDawg was never comfortable with the fact that it was his name that was on the domain and that many people who were coming to the site were coming because of his articles or presentations but not really appreciating all of the other great community members that were around. In 2002, after watching the web site grow quickly, it was decided that a new community needed to be created for these like-minded hackers who were gathering. This was the start of the biggest DDP project called Binary Revolution which was an attempt at starting a true "community" of hackers. As the site grew, so did the DDP roster.
Members
Over the years, DDP membership has included several staff writers for 2600: The Hacker Quarterly2600: The Hacker Quarterly
2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes ,...
and Blacklisted! 411 magazine including StankDawg and bland_inquisitor. They frequently publish articles, provide content, and appear on many media sources across the global Interweb. DDP members are also regular speakers at hacking conferences such as DEF CON
DEF CON
DEF CON is one of the world's largest annual computer hacker conventions, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada...
, H.O.P.E.
H.O.P.E.
HOPE is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Held biennially in the summer, there have been eight conferences to date with the next scheduled for 13 - 15 July 2012.- HOPE: Hackers On...
, and Interzone
Interzone
Interzone may refer to:* International zone, such as in Tangiers* Interzone , the title of a short story collection by William Burroughs; it is also a setting in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...
.
The majority of DDP members are college graduates and have professional experience in the computer industry. Some work for Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
companies, while others have been entrepreneurs who have created successful businesses. They hold memberships in Mensa
Mensa International
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test...
and the International High IQ society.
Binary Revolution
The best known of the DDP projects is that of Binary Revolution, or "BinRev". This project was created in an attempt to bring the hacking community back together, working towards a common, positive goal of reclaiming the name of hackers. The Binary Revolution emphasizes positive aspects of hacking and projects that help society. It does this in a variety of outlets including monthly meetings, the weekly radio show Binary Revolution Radio(BRR), a video-based series of shows called HackTV, and very active message board forums.Binary Revolution Radio, often shortened to "BRR", is one small part of the binrev community. It is common for people to discover BRR on one of the many podcast sites or applications out there and not realize that the "Binary Revolution" refers to a larger community than just the radio show. When people refer to "BinRev" they should not be referring only to the radio show. They should be referring to the community of projects as a whole, specifically focusing on the forums.
Recognition
The DDP maintains a blog "which they refer to as a "blawg". Posts by DDP members have been featured on other technology-related sites such as those of Make MagazineMake (magazine)
Make is an American quarterly magazine published by O'Reilly Media which focuses on do it yourself and/or DIWO projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines...
,
HackADay,
Hacked Gadgets, and others.
Printed
- Natas - "Backspoofing 101", Spring 2007, 2600 Magazine2600: The Hacker Quarterly2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specializes in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground" and left wing, and sometimes ,...
- Natas - "Ownage by AdSense", Fall 2006, 2600 Magazine
- Black Ratchet - "Not Quite Dead Yet", Spring 2006, 2600 Magazine
- dual_parallel - "Port Knocking Simplified", Winter 2005, Blacklisted411 Magazine
- StankDawg - "The Art of Electronic Deduction", Winter 2005, Blacklisted411 Magazine
- dual_parallel - "Remote Encrypted Data Access", Fall 2005, Blacklisted411 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Stupid Webstats Tricks", Fall 2005, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Hacking Google AdWords", Summer 2005, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Disposable Email Vulnerabilities", Spring 2005, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "0wning Universal Studios Florida", Fall 2004, Blacklisted411 Magazine
- StankDawg - "How to Hack The Lottery", Fall 2004, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Robots and Spiders", Winter 2003, 2600 Magazine
- ntheory - "Backspoofing: Let the Telco Do the Walking", July 2004, BR magazine Issue 2.1
- ntheory - "Packet8 IP Phone service", July 2004, BR magazine Issue 2.1
- dual_parallel - "White Hat Wi-Fi", July 2004, BR magazine Issue 2.1
- hacnslash - "An IR receiver for your PC", July 2004, BR magazine Issue 2.1
- StankDawg - "Hacking 101: Directory Transversal", July 2004, BR magazine Issue 2.1
- ntheory - "Hacking Coinstar", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- w1nt3rmut3 - "Best buy insecurities: revisited", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- bland_inquisitor - "Kismet on Knoppix HD install", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- dual_parallel - "A Physical Security Primer for the Community", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- logan5 - "case modeling", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- vooduHAL - "Insecurities in my cafe cup", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- StankDawg - "Hacking 101: Targeting Theory", September 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.2
- bland_inquisitor - "Denial of Service Attacks, Tools of the Tools", May 2003, BR magazine and Fall 2003, 2600 Magazine Issue 1.1
- StankDawg - "Hacking 101: Footprinting a system", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- evo_tech - "Your rights and why you have already lost them", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- nick84 & StankDawg - "2600 Secrets", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- nick84 - "Watching the watchers", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- dual_parallel - "Public TTYs: Description and Methodologies for Free Calling", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- bland_inquisitor - "Cookies: The good, the bad, and the ugly", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- StankDawg - "A newbies guide to ghettodriving", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- w1nt3rmut3 - "Phreaking Italy", May 2003, BR magazine Issue 1.1
- w1nt3rmut3 - "Best Buy Insecurities", Spring 2003, 2600 Magazine
- bland_inquisitor - "Honeypots: Building the Better Hacker", Winter 2002, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "A History of 31337sp34k", Fall 2002, 2600 Magazine
- bland_inquisitor - "Telezapper, Telemarketers, and the TCPA", Fall 2002, 2600 Magazine
- dual_parallel - "Retail Hardware Revisited", Spring 2002, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Transaction Based Systems", Spring 2002, 2600 Magazine
- dual_parallel - "Hacking Retail Hardware", Fall 2001, 2600 Magazine
- StankDawg - "Batch vs. Interactive", Summer 1999, 2600 Magazine
Online
- StankDawg - "Wardriving with Mickey", October, 2005
- dual_parallel & bland_inquisitor - "Slackware 10.2 Tips", September, 2005
- logan5 - "The iPod: It's not just for music anymore", January 2005
- bland_inquisitor - "Kodak Picture Maker: In's and Out's", December 2004
- StankDawg - "Hackers Insomnia", October 2004, FrequencyFrequencyFrequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency...
zine - dual_parallel & bland_inquisitor - "Basic Slackware Security", April, 2004
- StankDawg - "Scanning GO.MSN.COM", May 2004, Radical Future zine Issue #5
- StankDawg - "Fun with the dnL flipit chatbot", December 2003, OutbreakOutbreakOutbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected at a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Two linked cases of a rare infectious...
zine issue #14 - StankDawg & bi0s - "Inside Circuit City", December 2003, Outbreak zine issue #14
- hacnslash - "Dumpster Diving - Art or Science?", September 23, 2003
- bland_inquisitor - "Social Insecurity", December 2003, Radical Future zine Issue #4
- ntheory - "Generating Millisecond Accurate, Multi-Frequency Wave Files in Perl", July 2003
- StankDawg - "DMCA vs googlefight.com", December 2002, Outbreak zine issue #12
- StankDawg - "Basic Directory Transversal", November 2002, Outbreak zine issue #11
- StankDawg - "Hacking Movies", Winter 2002, Radical Future zine Issue #3
- StankDawg - "AIM Transcript (Campaign For Freedom)", Winter 2002, Radical Future zine Issue #3
Presentations
- StankDawg - "Binary Revolution Radio - Season 4 live!", July 2006, H.O.P.E.H.O.P.E.HOPE is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Held biennially in the summer, there have been eight conferences to date with the next scheduled for 13 - 15 July 2012.- HOPE: Hackers On...
Number Six - StankDawg - "The Art of Electronic Deduction", March 2006, Interz0ne 5 and July 2006, H.O.P.E. Number Six
- StankDawg - "Hacking Google AdWords", July 2005, DEF CONDEF CONDEF CON is one of the world's largest annual computer hacker conventions, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada...
13 - Black Ratchet (with Strom Carlson) - "Be Your Own Telephone Company...With Asterisk", July 2005, DEF CON 13
- StankDawg - "Hacker Radio", July 2004, The fifth H.O.P.E. (guest panelist)
- StankDawg - "AS/400: Lifting the veil of obscurity", July 2004, The fifth H.O.P.E.
- StankDawg - "Disposable Email vulnerabilities", March 2004, Interz0ne 4
DDP projects
- The Digital DawgPound Weblog
- The Binary Revolution - The main site of the DDP founded hacking community
- Binary Revolution Magazine - The printed hacking magazine put out by the DDP
- Binary Revolution Radio - Weekly hacking radio show presented by members of the DDP (07/2003-current)
- Binary Revolution Meetings - Monthly hacker meetings that encourage participation and offers free hosting for all meetings
- DDP HackRadio - The streaming radio station from the DDP that offer shows that are, "All hacking, all the time"
- HackTV - The first full-length regular Hacking video show
- Hacker Events - A calendar for all hacking conferences, events, meetings, or other related gatherings
- Hacker Media - A portal for all hacking, phreaking, and other related media shows
- Old Skool Phreak - Home of many phreaking related text files and Radio FreeK America archives
- Phreak Phactor - The worlds first Hacking reality radio show
- Project Wal+Mart Freedom - A comprehensive directory of all things the great devil of consumerism, Wal+Mart, has to offer phreaks and hackers
- Radio FreeK America - Weekly Radio show about Technology, Privacy and Freedom (02/2002 - 02/2004)
- Will Hack For Food - Secure disposable temporary email accounts