@LANtaCon

Well, it happened, @LANtaCon was held March 31-April 2, 2000. Moloch Industries was there and attempted to meet with everyone from around the country. We brought our cooler down for some of that great punch that makes ya dizzy and we also made a lot of great friends.

Moloch arrived into atlanta just before 11:00am and checked into the hotel early. Even though we had some trouble getting a room that would help us get on the network, we found our room to be most suitable. We quickly set up on the third floor and set out to see who we could catch up with. We bumped into Rhiannen and Dragon from se2600 and they helped us out a great deal.

Friday night things started to kick off at the conference and JohnnyX gave a couple of opening comments and greets to the crowd.


After getting a couple of drinks, even though we were a little tired from not sleeping in the last 48 hours, we watched Anime in the main con room. Some people were already set up on the network in the main room for the gaming. Network cables were also set up though out a lot of the hotel rooms. We setup our cooler but were to tired to fill it so we decided to wait till later. Xris and Rabbit showed up later with the ingredients to the punch and then we ventured out for more party favors.

Morning came and our gang set out to look for breakfast at the local Denny's and then returned to hear some of the talks such as Quantum Physics and Optyx with his software release of Cattscanner. We then later gathered in the smaller room to hear about physical hacking and security from HugMe, such as locks, consoles and access insecurities. After HugMe's talk we gathered in the main con room to hear Sir Dystic speak about Windows enumeration and security holes. We also spent some time with Phil A from Hack Sec Klahn and purchased some machines from him and some machines from the guys at rootwars.net. Rabbit and I hang around the hotel bar for a bit and bumped into Luminare and Sir Dystic along with Optyx and some others. We had some drinks and spoke about upcoming events. We then visited JohnnyX in his room and chatted for a bit. We also visited with Jooline and Maggie and all attended the Hacking 101/201pannel given by HugMe, Rattle and JohnnyX.

Later on, Rabbit, Anavice and Xris went to eat sushi with JohnnyX, Rattle, Nohbody, Jooline and Maggie along with others. tommEE stayed in the room selling T-shirts and sampling the punch to see if it tasted right. 2 hours later tommEE thought it tasted just right =). The gang headed back to the room with a Wendy's value meal for tommEE and the night kicked off.

Saturday night we hopped around from room to room and catered to guests in our room. We tried to make the Punch last so we thought it would be good to have some shots around. Well the shots weren't as expected. They were those groovy test tube shots and when we opened them, they smelled like nail polish remover. They did break up all the drinking that was going on for a bit. The night got a little blurry after that and we went to bed early the next morning.

Sunday morning a lot of folks were up quite early taking down the network connections and cleaning up their rooms. The Moloch gang decided to sleep in. Later when we got up we set our good byes to the rootwars.net people and some of the other people staying in our general area. We started packing up our equipment and Rabbit and Anavice decided to see the City of Atlanta. Xris and tommEE went to Office Depot to UPS ship most of the items that had to get back to New York.

Monday Morning about 4:00am we all got up for our 7:30am flight back to New York. We arrived in New York around 10:00am and all headed to work. The Moloch gang is currently getting ready for the New York City con H2K and we will be heading to DefCon two weeks after that. We are looking forward to seeing the se2600 guys again at Phreaknic 4.0.

Pictures located here

Special Thanks to:

Sir Dystic- of the Cult of the Dead Cow
HugMe, Rattle, JonnyX- se2600
Optyx - Uberhax0r Communications
Luminare- Attrition
Rhiannen and Dragon- se2600
 

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