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News since 29A#1
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Mister Sandman/29A
In a whole year it's obvious to say that many things happened. And it would
be a real fuck to try to sum them all up in this article, so we'll only try
to write a brief report about the most important events which took place in
all this time. In fact there's nothing too interesting here, just some kind
of curious news which may seem funny or at least not boring to you. For us,
they were great and amazing experiences we hope we'll go thru again.
First of all, after the release of 29A#1, was the discovery of some bugs in
the article browser and some errors in a few articles. Our first e-zine was
just a test and i think it was a pretty good first step. And it meant a big
help for us in order to get some experience about magazine releasing. There
was as well kind of a "lack of fame", what forced us to be lame in some as-
pects of the magazine (in the esthetic side) such as the sucking ANSI i had
to draw myself in less than 30 minutes before releasing the zine. Many long
conversations about this and other aspects of 29A took place, while our ho-
lidays (the VX ones) finished and we had to restart writing viruses. It was
nice however to have received tons of e-mails from almost every part of the
world congratulating us for the work we did in 29A#1.
We kept on working on our viruses/articles, and by the same time we started
thinking about the idea on developing the so-called "29A Labs", our website
located in http://29A.islatortuga.com. Also we stopped connecting to EFnet,
and, instead, we started visiting the recently founded spanish IRC network,
where we eventually settled after having created our own virus channel. And
these changes were not only affecting the group externally, but also inter-
nally, as by this time there were as well a lot of new members joining, and
other members becoming collaborators. And you may be wondering now what the
fuck a collaborator is... well, this is another feature we have implemented
in 29A. Now the organization is formed both by members and collaborators.
Members are those who have the compromise to write a certain number of ar-
ticles and/or viruses per an also certain period of time, they are 29A, the
virus writing group itself. Collaborators are external VXers who don't have
any compromise with us, who write articles or viruses when they feel like
that, and who send them to us in order to collaborate with the group. It is
important to say that many ex-members due to their inactivity or because of
their lack of time were "reclassified" and put as collaborators, instead of
members. So, that's the way the group is formed. The official list of mem-
bers and collaborators follows, including the last-hour additions :)
IMPORTANT!!! if any of the e-mail addresses below does not work, try to use
cryogen.com instead of islatortuga.com, or vice-versa. It is also important
to note that we are probably moving in the next months to 29A.org, so these
addresses may become obsolete soon, albeit they'll still exist, and we will
keep on checking them from time to time.
-29A MEMBERS- (the VX dream-team) ;)
Member name Origin IRC nick E-mail
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Mister Sandman......... Spain....... MrSandman....... mrsandman@cryogen.com
Darkman................ Denmark..... _darkman_....... _darkman_@cryogen.com
GriYo.................. Spain....... GriYo............... griyo@cryogen.com
Jacky Qwerty........... Peru........ jqwerty........... jqwerty@cryogen.com
Rajaat................. UK.......... Rajaat....... rajaat@itookmyprozac.com
Reptile................ Canada...... Reptile-... reptile./.29A.fuck@usa.net
Super.................. Spain....... Superx.......... super_29A@cryogen.com
Tcp.................... Spain....... Tcp................... tcp@cryogen.com
Vecna.................. Brazil...... Vecna............ vecna@antisocial.com
Wintermute............. Spain....... Winter..... wintermute@islatortuga.com
-COLLABORATORS-
Collaborator name Origin IRC nick E-mail
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An¡bal Lecter.......... Spain....... _Anibal_.......................... n/a
AVV.................... Spain....... avv................... avv@cryogen.com
Heuristic.............. Denmark..... n/a............................... n/a
Leugim San............. Spain....... LeugimSan...... leugim_san@cryogen.com
Lord Julus............. Romania..... LordJulus..... lordjulus@geocities.com
Mr. White.............. Spain....... W666.......... mrwhite@islatortuga.com
"Q" the Misanthrope ... USA......... n/a...... q_the_misanthrop@hotmail.com
Spanska................ France...... El_Gato........ el_gato@rocketmail.com
SSR.................... Russia...... ssr............................... n/a
The Slug............... Spain....... the_slug......... the_slug@cryogen.com
VirusBuster............ Spain....... VirusBust.......... darknode@oninet.es
Ypsilon................ Spain....... Ypsilon........... ypsilon@cryogen.com
Z0MBiE................. Russia...... Z0MBiE............................ n/a
Now that these important news have been told, it is time to start reporting
the trivial events. I would first mention our appearances in the media. The
first one was in PC Revue (?), a slovakian paper-printed magazine, where we
could read a brief comment about my AntiCARO virus. After this, we received
via Internet an e-mail from a guy called Javier Guerrero, who heads a virus
oriented section in a spanish paper-printed magazine called PCman¡a. We had
some chats about what we (29A+him) exactly wanted, and after that short pe-
riod of time, a full-color, four-page article about the virus scene and 29A
appeared in PCman¡a, which is one of the most popular computer magazines in
Spain. In the next month, he dedicated another -even longer- article to the
analysis of my virus Torero, and two months ago we were mentioned in an ar-
ticle dedicated to virus payloads, as before last summer we had talked with
him about the idea of writing such an article, and provided him with some
of the most known virus payloads. Besides, we have been interviewed by many
other media, and we're waiting right now for more public appearances. These
plans include our probable presence in a TV program!, plus the already con-
firmed announcement of the release of 29A#2 in PCman¡a, and some article(s)
in another spanish paper-printed computer magazine (the best sold i think),
called PC-Actual. But this all is a surprise we would not like to unveal by
now... just keep on visiting the 29A Labs! ;)
These are, btw, some excerpts of the article about us in PCman¡a:
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On cover: "Exclusive interview to spanish virus creators"
Index : "[...] we offer to you a very interesting interview with two mem-
bers of a spanish group of virus creators, called 29A. In an in-
formal chat, our guests describe their methods, their history,
and their future plans, as well as their opinions about the na-
tional and international virus scene".
Page 141: "Nowadays, 29A is, internationally, the most important virus cre-
ating group, as well as the first and unique one from Spain".
Page 142: "Writing viruses the way we do in 29A is to code for art and ent-
ertainment, not for effectiveness and destruction (Mr.Sandman)".
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The whole article has been converted also into a webpage, so everybody own-
ing a browser may check it out at the official website of PCman¡a, together
with other articles 29A was mentioned in:
(*) http://www.canaldinamic.es/PCMANIA/PC057/VI/pc057vivirus0000.html
(*) http://www.canaldinamic.es/PCMANIA/PC058/VI/pc058vivirus0000.html
(*) http://www.canaldinamic.es/PCMANIA/PC061/VI/pc061vivirus0000.html
Other funny event took place last summer, in Madrid. We celebrated the very
first european VX meeting, albeit it was initially supposed to be a meeting
only for 29Aers. However that's what it eventually became, as most of those
VXers who were supposed to come finally couldn't, because of several diffe-
rent reasons. For instance, Rajaat planned to go by car from UK till Luxem-
bourg, where he'd meet CoKe and then come to Spain. A completely unfortuna-
te last-hour crash the same day he was leaving the UK messed every plan and
made impossible to meet them... driving while being stoned... you know ;)
The only foreigner we could meet was Spanska, from France. After having met
everybody we went to a restaurant and had our meal. Then we went for a walk
to a cybercaf where we connected to IRC and had some fun on-line, and that
is when we decided to split for meeting later in order to go party. Some of
us went to the most famous square in Madrid, Plaza Mayor, were we could sit
in a bar and try to write a virus together, it was a pretty funny thing al-
beit we couldn't finish it (too much heat) :) Other people such as GriYo or
Spanska decided to go their way in order to have a rest, so they could have
their energies on top when going party. However, this was the last time any
of us saw Spanska, he felt asleep in his car until the next day :) We remet
at 22:00h or so in a McDonald's, and then went to some pubs and night bars,
including GriYo's... and our party stopped around 5:30h or so, with some of
us (especially GriYo and i) a little bit drunk :)
It was a great experience we'll repeat this summer, first in Madrid and la-
ter -hopefully- in Amsterdam. But this time things will be much more diffe-
rent, and besides we already know for sure right now that b0z0, Darkman,
Reptile, Rajaat, and Spanska are coming, so we are sure it'll be impossible
to stop laughing and having fun for an only minute. And there are also some
rumors, btw, about the possibility of organizing a ganja-smoking contest so
we may know at last who the fuck is the king, god or whatever of ganja ;)
And last but not least, like every year, the SIMO convention (an enterprise
based computer exposition, with stands and so on) took place in Madrid, and
29A couldn't miss it ;) This time it was GriYo, Wintermute, Mr. White (col-
laborator), and i who represented the group. It was nice to meet personally
the developers of Panda, the most important spanish AV product. They were
in every moment very kind and proved that it is possible to have a good re-
lationship with "the other side". In this case, it was VX and AV who shared
a funny and friendly chat, for some minutes. We could also visit the stands
of other AV products, such as F-Prot, AVP, TBAV, Scan, etc, but it was good
enough to stop at them and have some laughs... there were only salesmen, so
it would have been a loss of time to try to speak with them :P
When they saw us laughing at them they became completely astonished :)
And this is all, more or less... there's another event about to come, which
deals with the cellebration of the release of 29A#2, but i guess the report
of this party will be part of 29A#3, so... wait until then!
Mister Sandman,
bring me a dream.
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