Overview

by FX

h3X is a hacker, or to be more precise, she is a hackse (from hexe, the German word for witch). Currently, h3X is on the lookout for some printers. Printers are the best places to hide files and share them with other folks anonymously. And since not too many people know about that, h3X likes to store exploit codes and other kinky stuff on printers, and point her buddies to the Web servers that actually run on these printers. She has done this before

Over the centuries, witches have either been admired for their mysterious capabilities or hunted down and burned by the male members of the society who feared them. h3X is convinced that there is no such thing as secret, esoteric knowledge. It s all learning things and applying your experience in a specific way, no matter if you build something as beneficial as the microwave oven or find your way into some organization s printers. But if you do the things you do right, or even worse, use your imagination to do them differently with greater effect, there will always be people fearing you. Her approach, together with her taste for lower-level network communication, led to her h3X handle.

First, h3X checks her list of big university networks. Collecting this information has required some effort. She has spent some time surfing the Web and querying the Google.com search engine and the whois databases, but she knows that it always pays to have vital data...