"Mrs. president, I accept the vote." "After a voting session lasting for hours in the Beethoven Hall of Bonn, festive spirits followed Richard von Weizsacker's words." "It's no coincidence that Weizsacker assumed his second administration on this very day." "The constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany came into effect exactly 40 years ago on 5.23.1949." "The briefcase has to be delivered next." "But let's drink a sip first to celebrate this day." " Just a little sip." " We take care of the rest." "Oh, could you please open it." "I don't recall how often I read the novel Illuminatus. 50 times, 60 times." "There is one section that always intrigued me the most." "All great anarchists died on the 23rd of any month." "The 23rd is a good day for dying." "This film is based on true events." "Karl, come back." "Watch out!" "Could you please explain this to me?" "Where did you get them?" "Doesn't matter." "If I hadn't intervened, it would have been in the newspaper today." " Your acting out is embarrassing." " Why embarrassing?" "We fight against the nuclear crap your generation has built." "That's utter nonsense." "If you would make the effort to inform yourself at least once." "My father was chief editor of a right-wing daily newspaper in Hanover." "We argued permanently." "If you have a father like him, you got only 2 choices." "You either conform or you rebel." "Are you finished?" "Have a nice day." "Beate." "Could we meet in the editorials office?" "Sure." "I also let Alex know." "TAZ writes, "More than 10.000 political activists gathered peacefully."" "Frankfurter Rundschau, "8000 protest against nuclear facility."" "Now the Hanoversche Rundschau, "Almost 5000 protestors, many of them are supporting violent actions."" "Nonsense." " Is your father involved?" " He authorized it at least." "The bourgeois press manipulates the number of protestors." "Everything you need to know." "Only 1 Mark." "Karl, did you write this?" "Is it forbidden to express your opinion?" "The new cactus..." "Cut the crap." "There is something like freedom of the press." "This is actually libel." "You sure know it's not true." "Prove it." " I'll send you to a boarding school..." " Yada-yada." " ...to teach you respect finally." " Your girlfriend can move in my room then." "Kick the bucket if you ask me!" "Six month later, my father was dead as consequence of a brain tumour." "Although I felt somehow responsible, I couldn't feign grief." "Contrary to my mother-in-law." "She got the apartment and his securities." "I inherited a savings account with 50.000 Mark." "I closed the account immediately." "I'm not good at saving." " Why didn't you move in already?" " I don't like to live alone." "How about you?" "There is lots of room." "What's the catch?" "Everybody can do whatever suits him." "This is a research station for free living." " Do you want to be alone?" " I'm just watching." "It's a good party, isn't it?" "A bit crammed." "I don't know most of them at all." "It's all right with me." "I like many people being in my apartment." "Would you come along?" "I would like to show you something." "This book was found in my father's desk at work." "How cute." "Science fair." "Brilliant haircut." "It was a gift from my father for my 14th birthday." " That's the author:" "Robert Anton Wilson." " Looks a bit scary." "Totally blind buy." "He expected it to be a nice sci-fi novel for small boys." "He took it away from me when he discovered how dangerous it is." "Now I get everything back." ""Nothing is true." "Everything is allowed."" ""World history is the story of wars between secret societies."" "Wilson says, "The world isn't as it seems."" "There is a powerful secret society ruling the world invisibly:" "The Illuminati." "But there is Hagbard Celine, an anarchist tracking the Illuminati in his golden U-boat." "The heart of the U-boat is a giant computer calculating the possibility of a 3rd World War." "The computer has a strange name." ""Fuck up."" "What?" "FUCK UP:" "First Universal Cybernetic Kinetic Ultramicro Programmer." "You can borrow it if you want." "Yes, thank you." "Does anybody have 500 Mark to spare for pizza?" "I'll call the police if you don't stop this ruction immediately." "Alex!" "Somebody pissed on the mailboxes." "Just look at the mess." "Who's the asshole?" "My landlord." "It would be nice if you would go home." "I'm sorry but else I'm in trouble." "Beate didn't even take Illuminatus." "And Alex was only intrigued by the parts covering sex and drugs." "He didn't get it at all." "Wilson's depiction of political murder and secret societies was as suspenseful as a crime novel." "I read the book again and again and I was looking for people to talk about it." "At that time, the first chat lines spread where all kinds of people were talking about all kinds of topics." "The Commodore I owned was small but pretty capable." "It felt like discovering a new arcane world." "I knocked at every cabin door of the global village and travelled around the world with super speed." "Picking a nickname when I went travelling was easy." "I read in a bulletin board discussing Illuminatus that Wilson is going to attend the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg." "Germany's computer nerds were meeting here." "They were harmless looking but surprisingly inventive." "A bit as if you get a chemistry set for Christmas then you start to build bombs." "Scarab controlled the displays at the Frankfurt airport," "Conan the power net of Luxembourg." "Blowfish set up an illegal mailbox at the nuclear research facility in Geneva." "And there was David from Hanover." "His pseudonym was Goliath." "Wilson talked about the fundamental changes of our society the computer will cause in the next few years." "Property won't be important anymore but information." ""Knowledge means power", says Wilson." "And this power will be controlled by a small, conspired group." "The very same people Hagbard Celine is fighting against." "Illuminatus maybe more real than I thought." "It's intriguing what Wilson wrote about the secret number of the Illuminati:" "The 23." " And the 5." " Why the 5?" "5 is the sum of digits of 23." "The department of defence is located in the Pentagon." "It's 5-sided." "Quite strange building." "And you are thinking the Illuminati reside there, right?" "Who knows." "In any case, lots of assassinations really happened on the 23rd." "But Kennedy was murdered on the 22nd." "And Oswald on the 24th." "The 23rd is in-between." "Could you quit your stupid drivel in the middle of the night?" "Do the Illuminati exist or not?" "Wilson doesn't provide any proof." "It doesn't matter how you call them." "Secret societies exist for sure." "Just read any history book." "Sure, but..." "Nevertheless..." "Some stuff sounds so ludicrous as if he smoked a fat doobie during writing." "Drugs aren't all that bad." "They stimulate the imagination, right?" "Sure." "Do you dare to smoke a doobie here?" "Sure." "But I don't have one right now." "Do you dare to sing a song here?" "And which one?" ""The thoughts are free"." "But standing." "What are the lines?" "Listen, you can't do that." "Why is nobody joining our sing-a-song?" "Have a nice ride." "Where did they throw us out?" "Fallingbostel." "Awesome city, should do some site seeing." "Crap." "I have to be at school until 12 o'clock." "It's almost 11 now." "11 + 12 = 23" "Is that a good or a bad sign?" "Did you notice the VW thing?" "V is the Romanian 5 and W is the 23rd character of the alphabet." "Brockhaus encyclopaedia." "The knowledge of the world in 23 volumes." " Nope, 24." " Really?" "Yes, we own it." "Bummer." "Apollinaris." "The world drinks from this spring." "It's only a triangle." "That's not a triangle." "It's a front-faced pyramid." "The 23 is really everywhere." "Unbelievable." "For instance:" "The human genetic code." "It gets ff-f-f forwarded through the chromosomes." "Yes, by fucking." "How many?" " What?" " Chromosomes." " 23?" " Nope, 24 ..." "Of course 23." "Anyway, Illuminatus is fiction." "After all, it's a novel." "Look." "What do you see?" "A dollar." "The Illuminati symbol." "On the most important currency of the world." "And who do you see now?" "George Washington." "Then this has to be George Washington as well." "Sure it's he." "This is Adam Weishaupt." "And he is the founder of the Illuminati. 1776." "That's not possible." "When the Illuminati were declared illegal, Weishaupt went to America, ordered Washington's death and took his place." "That's why there is a pyramid on the dollar." "Hogwash." "At that time, everybody looked the same with a wig anyway." "Do you want to go on a trip with me for a few days?" "To the ocean." " What about the school?" " What about the ocean?" "Come on." "Let's get out of here, getting a live." "First, you vanished for weeks and now you want to go on a trip to the ocean with me?" "Sure, why not?" "A protest rally takes place this weekend." "The more the merrier." "Running around a bit, getting wet." "We can arrange that on the beach as well." "Don't talk such nonsense." "Besides, I need to work." "I've barely 20 Mark left." "This is for you." "So you can come along." "Just take it." "Do you feel superior now?" "All I want is going on a trip with you." "Since your father died, you mutated into a true asshole." "I couldn't care less about your money." "Stop it." "What are you doing?" "I don't want the damn money." "It brings nothing but bad luck for me." "Hanover." "Location of the largest computer exhibition of the world." "The industry booms." "Soon we will travel through the worldwide net by modem." "Dear viewer." "We now present a so-called hacker." "He calls himself Hagbard, comes from Hanover and graduates from high school shortly." "How long have you been a hacker?" "A few months." "Hagbard, what does a hacker do?" "A hacker explores data networks and tracks down security holes in mainframes." "I see." "What's this?" "The new BTX system." "They advertise that you can manage your bank account with BTX." "But it's premature." "We are causing trouble and tell them later," ""Look folks, you have to improve this."" "However later, do you inform the people involved?" "Sure." "We don't want to harm anyone." "So, there is a hacker ethics of some kind?" "Knowledge means power." "Right information leads to richness, wrong to poverty." "Information should be accessible by everybody." "Hello." "Your friend is doing pretty interesting stuff." "Young computer nerds like Hagbard own the future." "They sort of sucked up the chip along with their breast milk and deal naturally with bits and bytes." "This dude talks nothing but crap." "How can you possibly talk to him?" "I just tried to fix the public opinion about hackers." "And to tap 200 Mark." "I didn't talk about internal stuff." "Besides where do you booze, smoke weed and raise the telephone bill?" "At my place." "Karl, I would like to introduce you somebody." "That's Lupo." "Lupo, that's Karl." "Pleased to meet you." "Your actions are generally somewhat funny." "But helping corporations permanently is kid stuff." "Are you a hacker as well?" "No, no, not at all." "I'm programmer, specialized on "big boxes"." "But not here in Hanover." "No, in Berlin." "My job here is only temporary." "At Continental." "They reorganize the distribution." "Lupo thinks we are wasting our talent." "Yes, it's time to start the redistribution." "Why don't you hack into the nuclear industry or into American defence corporations?" "And then?" "Then we carry it to those whose technology is behind." "Think about it." "Take your time." "A friend of mine has connections to Russia." "Pepe at home?" "On the balcony." "You can make dough with data transfer for sure." "We are more concerned about the hacker ethics." "Ethics?" "The world is full of assholes." "Everybody better minds his own business." "This ethics thing gets my attention." "What do you have in mind?" "Democracy requires equals." "Information has to be accessible freely." "It means practically that the networks should stay open." "I don't understand exactly how this works." "US satellites are capable to see a famine outbreak in Africa half a year in advance." "The people down there are clueless, of course, and croak since access to information isn't available." "From a technological point of view, Russia is Third World." "Therefore, we provide water to prevent America controling everything." "You hack, Pepe delivers." "I don't know." "It feels hurried for my taste." "We don't know each other very well." "I told my girlfriend the same when she got pregnant." "It's also quite dangerous." "I mean industry espionage." "That means BKA, BND and VS will hunt us." "What are you?" "Are you bystanders or people taking charge?" "Olof Palme is dead." "He is the victim of an assassination carried out in downtown Stockholm last night." "The two deadly shots..." " Who is this Palme anyhow?" " Politician, in case of doubt." "No, he was Swedish or Finnish premier minister or something like that." "He looks daft." "Could everybody just shut up?" "Take some weed again and piss off." " What's your problem?" " This is important." "...US president Reagan called Palme one of the most respectable politicians of the world." "I found something about Palme." ""The police ordered road blocks as late as 24 hours after the assassination." "Police schedules were retroactively falsified."" "They were looking for an individual suspect for a long time." "This notes, "Clues suggesting a conspiracy were neglected."" "Just like Kennedy." "They blamed Oswald for everything." "The Illuminati were banned after only 10 years since they had gained power that fast." "But they secretly continued and expanded slowly." "They used their own calculation of times and own city names." "Munich was called Athena." "Weishaupt called himself Spartacus." "This lists their members, "Mozart, Herder, Goethe."" "The police report..." "That's not possible!" "24 hours is a day, every hour has 60 minutes, and the shots were fired at exactly 23:23 o'clock." "You're saying, the Illuminati are responsible for Palme?" "I just say there are conspiracies and powers we don't know of." "You mean CIA and World Bank etc.?" "Doesn't matter." "He was on the target list and got killed." "I pondered Lupo's suggestion." "I think we better utilize our talent." "Pepe was somehow a likeable fellow." "He dealt with used cars, consumer electronics and drugs." "The better I got to know him the more I doubted his Russian connections." "Lupo went back to Berlin and was busy." "Pepe promised to take care of the next steps." "He told us to use the code word "Paris" for "East Berlin"." "So we asked, "When do we go to Paris?" He answered:" "As soon as I catch the tour guide." "When I had almost forgotten the matter, Pepe arranged a meeting with us." "He told us a pretty adventurous story." "Pepe had driven to East Berlin and had paid a visit to the Russian embassy." "I told the doorman, "I want to meet the KGB."" "The monkey pretended not to know what I'm talking about." "I said to him, "Then I'm sorry." "I can walk across to the Chinese as well"." "He then suddenly asked me to stay after all." "[Russian reference book for beginners]" " Mr. Conrad?" " Yes." "[Russian]" "I speak German." "Good day." "Mr. Conrad, I would like to know." "Why are you doing this?" "I don't like Americans." "They are imperialists." "Are you communist?" "Nope, I'm a free cosmopolitan." "I told him the whole story." "Afterwards he had a pretty long conversation with his boss." "I didn't catch everything but one thing is for sure." "They want everything you're able to get." "And Mr. Conrad, please don't visit the embassy the next time." "This is my office address." "Please, come without a car." "I understand." "Place it next to your computer if you like." "[German-Russian friendship]" "Now it's your turn, lads." "We hacked for everything we could lay our hands on." "We copied randomly files from universities, corporations and libraries." "We cracked mainframes often with ease." "People just lacked any imagination picking their passwords." "Some named them simply "password"." "Others chose the name of their wife or dog." "To take advantage of cheap telephone rates, we left the day world and entered the night world." "Our week had now 6 days with 28 hours each." "That, of course, entailed some problems." "We are closed." "Bach was the first hacker." "The harpsichord was his computer." "You can play it forwards and backwards." "He was actually mathematician." "If he would live today, he would be programmer." "We completed our first shipment in no time." "We also added disks we had piled up recently." "Pepe felt like being James Bond." "He enjoyed being a spy and obtained a suitcase made of Argentine calf leather." "Every border officer checks this one." "I sure don't carry this stuff in a brown bag to the KGB." " He wants to meet you." " Who?" "Our fellow in Paris." "He wants you to come along the first time." "Next time I travel on my own." "What kind of car features an engine that dies when the accelerator pedal is released?" "How pathetic." "Why didn't we drive your car then?" "Go." " Hey, there is a line." " Where?" "Here." "Stop." "Stop!" "Fuck, we overshot." " That's not possible." "Back off." " No, don't back off!" "Silence all." "I'll handle it." "Good Day." "You might want to redraw the line." "It's barely noticeable." "Open the suitcase." "I thought that's it." "But suddenly Pepe offered them Sergej's business card." "They called him up and we could pass without any problems." "Just like a bad spy movie." "Good luck then." " You don't come along?" " Nope." "It turns out that Lupo had escaped from the Federal Armed Forces." "He lives now as permanent resident in a hotel in West Berlin under a false name." "He leaves the city only by airplane to avoid domestic passport checks." "The whole thing was shaky." "We got engaged with a dealer and a deserter." " The suitcase, please." " What about the money?" "First, we check your material then we talk business." "I would also like to get it back." "This is socialism." "Nobody gets robbed here." "Hagbard." "Interesting name." "Your parents died premature?" "I'm sorry." "Your father was journalist?" "Yes?" "I don't want to come across as curious but we never dealt with partners that young." "We should talk later about a few rules of conduct." "No problem." "I already explained the boys the most important stuff." "Excuse me." "Your material... is interesting for us." "Please sign." "Bureaucracy is everywhere." "Come on." "Open it." "Lost the key." " I just run downstairs." " Not in this outfit." "There is another way." "We are sending your material to Moscow for a closer inspection." "Then I'll be notified what our economy requires." "Applications and passwords are very useful in any case." "Acquiring passwords isn't that easy." "I know." "It'll work out if the payment is satisfactory." "Don't worry, Mr. Conrad." "Just obtain everything you can get." "I'm quite curious about your next delivery." "For months, everything went smooth." "We delivered and got paid." "Eventually headlines spread about break-ins into mainframes." "A new law turned hacking into a felony." "We weren't impressed but people started to protect their computers better." "The longer our nights at the computer lasted the more I needed the coke to stay awake." "My inheritance was gone a long time ago and I needed Sergej's money to pay Pepe." "And to get that we hacked around the clock." "On David's birthday, his father presented him a new Atari." "David invested his whole ambition into a self-written program." "It had stored the 500 most popular passwords, connected itself to external computers and then scanned the whole list automatically." "Unfortunately, it was too much to ask for the small Atari." "Please don't." "That was a 2-weeks work." "It was supposed to be a surprise." "But the idea is ingenious." "The computers are at fault." "They aren't powerful enough." "It's daft to fumble around like amateurs all the time." "Chill." "We need a professional computer." "First, you repay your debts." "You owe me 5 grand." "4!" "5!" "4!" "You know Hagbard, sometimes I get the hunch you don't like me." "You should probably obtain your coke elsewhere." "Then you get accustomed to street prices." "My prices are a favour to you." "I quite like you if you want to know." "Do you know the Micro PDP-11?" "Heard about it, yes." "You can get one near Darmstadt." "Used, for 10.000." "Call, in case of a problem." "And pay attention to a sound sale agreement." "Don't you have confidence in me?" "That's the PDP-11, predecessor of the Micro PDP-11." "So not identical?" "No, I just told you." "The Micro PDP-11 is sold." "But this one offers excellent value for money." "Similar performance, just slightly larger." "Very sturdy." "This one is great, right?" "It stayed at the nuclear reactor in Julich." "It's a real workhorse." "In a nuclear power plant?" "Yes." "You can imagine the high standards demanded there." "Crap." "Lupo isn't in." "And if we call Pepe?" "He is clueless." "The sales clerk thinks we are morons." " Come on." "Let's buy it." " It would be perfect." "If we wait any longer, it's gone." "What a professional badass!" "That's not the Micro PDP-11." "That's the predecessor." "Slightly larger but a workhorse." "It stayed at the nuclear reactor Julich." "Lupo, the receipts." "Look, some documents." "We could hack into it, just as a warning to the nuclear people." "Shut up for a second." "Have to think." "Something wrong?" "You were supposed to buy a Micro PDP-11, right?" " Yes, but this one..." " ...needs high-voltage current." "Then we order a proper line." "And air-condition as well." "Otherwise, you could open a sauna club." "We tried to call you." "What's that?" "Looks damaged." "The controller." "This isn't happening." "I'm going postal." "Everything gets repaired." "Or we claim a refund." "You can't claim a refund!" "Check the receipts!" "It can't be a serious problem." "It should be running within a week." "This isn't happening." "My money." "All down the drain." "Motherfuckers!" " I talk to him." " Leave him alone." "Such a crap." "Pull out, man!" "Pull out now!" "There was no other option but to go on with my Commodore." "We felt well behind our delivery schedule." "I needed money urgently to repay Pepe and Lupo." "There was a pub in Hanover where hackers met regularly." "The exhibition guy showed up occasionally searching for people for a telecast." "He was clueless about computers and I made up a small story involving the Julich hard copies." "Jochen, I might have something interesting to offer." "We hacked into the nuclear power plant in Julich." "These are the hard copies." "What?" "You really got into Julich?" "Yes." "What would such a story be worth?" "It depends on what happened there." "Well, we ran the fuel rods up and down." "That's interesting." "With your small Commodore?" "Yes, no problem." "Are you able to reproduce or prove it somehow?" "Prove it, how?" "By filming a hack into the power plant for instance." "After the US imposed an embargo, first hostilities occured yesterday." "Libyan battle cruisers fired several warning shots at two US aircraft carriers." "Ghadafi stated again that he is claiming the whole Gulf region for himself." "US foreign secretary Schultz confirmed..." "Thanks." "Ok." "He is ready." "We are considering a telecast about your story." "Could you imagine your participation?" "A few interviews maybe." "You are introducing Mr. Maiwald to the community, showing him the tricks." "You are staying anonymous, of course." "And somehow, it's also your intention to educate people, right?" "Agreed." "It's important to let people know what's happening." "Absolutely." "Nuclear reactors are really dangerous." "If everybody with a Commodore gets in..." "It's settled then." "Hold on." "Give us a minute to talk it over." "Did you notice?" "He smokes Ernte 23." "Let's map out exactly what we do and don't do." "Maybe they transmit on UHF 23 and the broadcasting commission consists of 23 members." "An Illuminati-infested station." "Ok, what are we gonna do?" "We sit down and hack to Julich." "End." "And get paid for it." "It's that simple." "Fine, but no long interviews and no introduction to the community." "They treat it confidentially." "Jochen is a good guy." "He acts so peace-y but his head runs a whole different program." "The break-in into Julich is a felony." "If word gets out we initiated it, the station will be held responsible as well." "I'm very careful." "We don't do it here." "We go to my apartment." "Afterwards I contact Julich and ask them whether they noticed something." "To be up-front." "If something goes awry, I don't know anything." "You take full responsibility." "If the story is a hit, I'm going to authorize your permanent employment." "Thanks." "I'm delighted." "No fuss, Maiwald." "What do they have in mind for their down payment?" "I offered 5000." " Here." " What's that?" "That's the first instalment." "The rest comes in a few days." "Where do you get it?" "Um, I sold stuff." "Music records, furniture and so on." "Rumours are circulating that you met a journalist." "Oh, that guy." "Sometimes he hangs around and approaches people." "Do me a favour and ask me before you make special deals." "Nothing happened." "I would never do something like that." "Forget it." "We are a team, aren't we?" "This is Sergej's wish list." "Now he wants just the gems." "I know it's really difficult." "But see what's possible." "I don't like to disappoint him." " These are defence corporations." "Military." " We fight for world peace." "They use encrypted passwords." "I don't know how to get them." "He wants to shell out 60.000." "Enough to clear your debts." "Finally sleeping relaxed again." "Everything went completely out of control." "It wasn't about fair distribution of information anymore." "Captain Hagbard's fight against world conspiracy had lost sight a long time ago." "While I might fooled myself to work against the Illuminati I was likely already part of their plans." "Without realising, we turned into remittance workers for the KGB." "Shit, the cops." " What's happening here?" " No clue." "The discotheque "La Belle" offered a horrific sight in the morning." "The explosion that shattered the popular dance club after midnight caused 2 victims so far, including one US soldier." "Over 200 people were injured, some badly." "A representative of the US government suspects infiltrated Libyans from East Berlin being responsible." "Where are you now, Hagbard?" "We reached the entrance of the computer." "He now asks me to log in." " That requires a password?" " Correct." " Where did you get it?" " Trade secret." "You know, there are serious punishments in place." " Aren't you afraid that..." " No." "Ok." "What's next?" "How do we get access to the fuel rods?" "Well, first you can look around for a while." "And then..." " Then nothing goes on." " Why not?" "Because you can't tamper with the system that easily." "Ok." "Let me ask this way." "How difficult would it be for a smart hacker to manipulate the control panel of a nuclear power station?" "But you ran the fuel rods up and down, right?" "Nonsense, who says so?" "Well, in general it's quite easy." " What are you talking about?" " Just let me..." "I'm not a fool!" "We hacked into Julich." "That's all you asked for, ok." "These questions are heading into a very strange direction." "David!" "What fuel rod crap did you tell him?" "I had to lure him with something." "What a risk." "Imagine he believes it and turns it into a top story." "Chill." "Nothing happened." "I can't pay more than the advanced payment, Karl." "I'm going to investigate a bit and figure out whether this is worth a telecast." "How do we proceed?" "We keep in touch in any case." "I'll call you." "Fine." " Oh, hello, Mr. Koch." " Hello?" "The heater meter has to be read." "I took the opportunity to look around." "The carpet exhibits smoke holes and wine stains." "I'll fix it." "Trust me on this." "All right." "You have changed since you hang around with these assholes." "Do it again and you can move out." "Just my opinion." "That should be allowed after all." "That's not what I meant." "You opened the door for the landlord." "Don't do it again, ever!" "I did nothing." "He has his own key." "He ought to give me a notice first." "He can't just enter and snoop around as he pleases." "Where have you been?" "I'm looking for you everywhere." "May I enter?" "Where has he been?" "I take this one." "Does it come with a second key?" "No, since it's on sale." "I can make a duplicate if you want." "Yes, ok." "Look." "Pretty, eh?" "Pepe, I think I got an idea." "Passwords are like keys." "What we did so far is walking along a line of cars and check every door handle until we find an open one." "Here you go." "What we need is a second key." "It's very simple." "Hold on, my shoes." "The white ones." "This is the computer we want to enter." "It has a door we can't pass." "Who cares." "We simply build a second door in front of it." "A small program pretends to be the right entrance." "Someone shows up and enters his password." "Then our door says, "Wrong password." "Try again."" "He's puzzled a bit then enters his password again and now it's the right door and he's logged in." "Clue is our door has stored the password for us." "Done." "We just have to name it." "How about "Straddle and get in"?" "No." "Trojan horse." "Why that?" "The Greeks conquered Troy with it." "He again." "Pretends to be educated." "Karl, your program has caught a password." "Someone took the bait." " Odd." " What do you mean?" "The 2nd floor is still lit." "It's a shipping company." "Nobody works there usually at this time." "Let's move on." "What's going on?" "That's my farewell gift." "I move out." "Hi, you smurfs." "How it's going?" "We copied a lot of stuff." "Just make sure you are done by today." "We deliver to Sergej tomorrow." "What, that soon?" "Sure." "If it gets close, you just work all night." "I'm already up for 24 hours." "I don't care." "Work has to be done." "For world peace." "Open your hands." " What's that?" " You too." "Amphetamine." "Keeps you keen on hacking." "If everything goes well we party at Lupo's." "The conflict between Libya and USA grows acute." "Revolution leader Ghadafi emphasises that he's still claiming the whole Gulf region." "Federal foreign secretary Genscher flew to Washington to prevent the bombing of Libya." "Meanwhile, crews of 33 US fighter jets are awaiting their orders." " Karl, are you ready?" " Yes, right away." "Do you hear that?" "That are airplanes." "Are you sick?" "They are bombing the cities." "It's the winter tires." "They hum a little bit." "Should we stop?" " Too late." "They are coming." " Who comes?" "Hey!" " Crap, get out." " Are you crazy?" " Let me out." " What's he doing?" "Damn it, Karl!" "It's about time to get a grip!" "My man Hagbard, what got into you?" " How long did I sleep?" " Almost 5 hours." "I messed up everything, right?" "No, no." "Best wishes from Sergej." "He's taken with your work." "I took the opportunity and raised the prices considerably." "I knew I could count on you." "US fighter jets have bombed the Libyan cities Tripoli and Benghazi." "Although the strike aimed at military targets, many civilians are among the 100 fatalities." "Revolution leader Ghadafi is threatening to carry out a retaliation strike." "It is feared the conflict might spread over the whole Middle East." "The Illuminati are here." "I don't see them." "Could you show them to me?" "I sense them." "Ey, it gets boring." "Insert another disk." "Lupo, just leave him alone." "Come on." "Drink something." "And?" "Nothing has changed." "He can't get rid of it." "Hagbard, regarding the Illuminati." "I think I sense them as well." "Yes?" "Yes, I feel them here." "What do you feel?" "These voices." "And my back is itching, reaching far down." "What do the voices say?" "I don't understand them." "It's itching badly." "Have a look." "Take off your pants if you have it too." "Karl, wait up." "Pepe tried to play a joke." "He wanted to make you laugh." "What's important to me is not a laughing matter!" "Karl, it's just a play with the fucking 23!" "But not to me!" "To you maybe." "Do you understand at all what's happening?" "It seems you don't understand it anymore." "You tried to leave the car at 110 mph today." "What do you think we are doing?" "David!" "Don't you get what's happening?" "Don't try to tell me the Illuminati were standing at the roadside." "Do you know what your problem is?" "You take to much coke." "That has nothing to do with it." "Promise me you are never going to leave me." "I have nobody else." " I don't like it." " Shipping "Fischer", I found it." "54...21...47" "Shipping Fischer." "Good evening." "This is Muller." " Are the BKA people still around?" " Come again?" "Muller, Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation." "Could I talk to a partner?" "I see." "Hold on, I put you through." "Hello." "They are cops." "Don't touch anything." "Leave it as it is." "Who could know something?" " Alex, he might told somebody." " Nonsense, he wouldn't do that." "Likely my landlord." "I don't pay my rent anymore." "Why doesn't he complain?" "That might be possible." "They told him, "Let him stay." "We pay the rent."" "But why?" "Because there are bugs in my apartment." "Then they had to enter your apartment." "Any incidents?" "Maybe." "My landlord was in my apartment with a craftsman." "They can't frame you at all." "Sitting at your computer at night isn't illegal." "You met Sergej only once." "They don't know about that." "Why do they track me if they don't know nothing?" "It's called "bumper tactics"." "They besiege you until you panic and do something stupid." "I'm out." "It was fun, initially." "Meanwhile I know how to get into mainframes." "They don't have evidence." "Otherwise, they would have taken action already." "It's too risky." "I don't want to screw up my future." "Cops are stupid as pigs." "They don't know anything about computers." "We are always a step ahead, whatever we do." "They didn't find out because of the hacks." "It was the drugs." "Pepe is a well-known dealer." "And you bought stuff from him all the time." "What's your problem?" "Look at your flamboyant behaviour and appearance." " Is something bothering you?" " Yes." " I'm curious." "You got talky with some whore since you can't get it on at home anymore." " Shut up, stupid asshole or..." " Don't touch me." "And I did business with this garden gnome." "He is smarter than all of us together." "Shut up, all of you, damn it." "Motherfucker." "We are a team." "We've done everything together so far." "We don't let stupid cops spoil our plans." "We are talking 15.000 Mark for each of us." "So, don't panic, got it!" "We let a few days pass." "Nobody meets anybody." "No actions." "Then you take a hotel room and haul off the rest." "Everything itemized on Sergej's list." "Understood?" "15.000 each." "But only if you're in too." "Let's do this one last thing." "Afterwards we split with these bastards." "Ok, we go for it." "But because we want it not because you want it." "Sure." "Just because you want it, of course." "And if it gets tight, Sergej will help us." "An airplane will be ready for us." "It carries us to Moscow." " Nice idea." " It's even worse than Hanover." "Mr. Bruckner." " Hello, Mr. Bruckner." " Hello, Mr. Koch." "Good morning." "I'm wondering about my rent." " Your rent?" " I'm 2 month behind." "It didn't strike me." "Then simply transfer it." "I don't believe you." "What if I don't pay?" "I also won't pay in the future!" "Not a cent!" "Throw me out!" "I want you to give me a leave notice!" "Everything alright?" "Do you promise me to disconnect if something suspicious happens?" "Let me do my job." "It's for tonight only." "You promised me something." "I know." "And I'm truly committed." "I'm off this stuff." "But I need it tonight." "Don't you want to quit?" "I take care." "What's happening here?" "Call tracing." "Get out immediately." " Let's scram." " Are you crazy?" "Do you know what it means if they cut the line?" "They want to trace us back." "We have to go." "Insert money again." "I found something." "That's the last on Sergej's list." "We draw it off." "Do you know what this is?" "No clue." "I'll copy it, it doesn't take long." "Over there is a strange car." "Then go and check." "What's that?" "Russian cities." "That's a simulation for a nuclear war." "Shit, Karl." "You panic all the time." "These are nuclear stations." "Look, number of reactors." "Let me just finish this." "The next war starts this way." "They blow up these things." "Piss off, Karl." "You are hassling me." "The news." "Moscow." "According to the soviet news agency TASS a hazardous incident occurred in the nuclear power plant Chernobyl." "The extent of the damage is not yet known." "Finland and Sweden are reporting an increased radiation since this morning." "We did it." "I know we are somehow involved." "Just stop it." "You are a pain in the ass." "David, you got Chernobyl on your screen." "But we weren't inside Chernobyl but inside US army computers." "It's a coincidence that Chernobyl appears on the news." "What I thought in the phone booth." "That they blow up such a thing." "It exactly happened that way." "If somebody wants to blow up Chernobyl then he doesn't need your assistance." "You don't have to think about it first." "They are using my thoughts." "I don't know how they do it but it's true." "When my father died." "Tripoli." "Olof Palme." "I always thought about it first and then it happened that way." "The reactor accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine is the largest disaster that had happened in the domain of nuclear power so far." "Karl?" "Hello." "I brought some clothes for you." "And your books." "I also moved all suspicious stuff to my place." "It should be in your interest as well." "I lost contact to Pepe and Lupo." "We..." "There were house searches at hackers in Hamburg." "We are lucky quitting early enough." "I had no luck." "Sorry." "It's very difficult for me since..." "Sometimes I think I'm sitting in a car driving down a curved road." "Suddenly I recognise that I'm unable to brake or steer." "Somebody else does it." "Maybe the Illuminati don't exist." "They never existed." "Then I would be insane." "Don't think about the stuff we did." "From now on, I'm thinking about the future only." "I'll get out next week." "I move into a state-run hostel." "Ok." "I was eager to leave the hospital." "When it finally happened, I felt helpless and weak." "The hostel provided a sheltered, ideal world." "The pharmaceuticals calmed me down and my fear disappeared." "I recovered slowly, gained distance and tried to forget everything." "Everything progressed well." "Until Jochen Maiwald showed up." "I can imagine you are busy recovering." "But I have a problem." "The police visited our station and they had a search warrant." "Crap." " How could this happen?" " I don't know." "They searched my office and then moved on to my home and continued there." "They took all documents for the story." "And the video tape?" "They didn't get it, thank God." "But the hard copies..." "They got the Julich stuff." "And now?" "What should we do?" " My boss wants to talk to you." " I can't walk off easily." "Karl, he's here." "It won't take long." "You have to testify." "You took the initiative to hack into Julich." "Neither Mr. Maiwald nor anybody from the station tempted you to do so." "The fee covered solely an interview." "Do they know my name?" "We could avoid that so far." "But now we have to take actions to protect the station." "It's difficult for Mr. Maiwald as well." "He may loose his job." "I can't go to the police." "I'm sick." "Your sickness will help settling the matter fast." "It was imprudent, a stupid prank." "It's likely settled with a fine." "Let me think about it." "I have to talk to David." "It depends on his decision." "I wait until tomorrow." "Then our legal adviser tells the police your names." "I'm sorry but I can't delay it any longer." "I recently interviewed a technician in Julich." "He maybe called the police and said," ""Check out this Maiwald, maybe he has connections to hackers."" "Although I doubt it." "I was really cautious." "I get thrown out of the hostel." "I don't have any money." "We'll figure it out, Karl." "There was other stuff too." "What?" "Other hacks?" "Did you do bigger stuff?" "I can't talk about it." "No matter what." "I'm sure you are better off if you turn yourself in." "If money is the problem, we could do something with a magazine." "I keep a good connection to Stern." "They pay up to 50.000 Mark for an exclusive report." "It would be a start." "You could build upon that." "All right." " What happens then?" " We go to them together." " That's crazy, Karl." " Just a thought." " Everything would be over finally." " Nothing would be over." "Far worse breaks loose." "You can't sell out." "I can." "If you do that, you are history for me." "Not everybody has parents taking fucking care of everything." "Knock this crap off!" "What I'm supposed to do?" "Approach my parents and say, "Sorry, I kind of did something"?" " What if I talk to them?" " No." "Then have fun with your parents." "I pity you." "Imagine what Lupo is thinking." "I don't expect him to be pleased." "Is that a threat?" "Look at you, how you turned out." "A fucked-up coke druggie, a nursing case." "But of course." "Leave." "Go." "Here." "Please." "But better take another therapy first otherwise nobody is going to believe you." "Just go." "Walk off." "Leave!" "Good day." " How can I help you?" " Can I talk to you for a minute outside?" "David visited us." "Do you know what he told us?" "He told us you want to testify." "Is that true?" "Is that true I want to know!" "No." "What's up with this press crap?" "It's over." "I turn myself in." "How naive are you?" "Do you really believe I'll let that happen?" "Do you?" "If you tell anything to anybody you're a goner, Hagbard." "Yes, but they catch you too." "You small, poor bastard." "Listen." "I'm nobody in this game." "No permanent residence, no border crossings, no nothing." "You don't even know my name." "Pepe may serve some years in prison but you, my friend, are done." "A single phone call to the cops and the whole drug and spy crap is coming down on you." "On you solely." " A special report might be worth a thought." " This story is absolutely exclusive." "Karl sells the TV rights to us and the print rights to Stern." "First, he has to turn himself in." "Every day without a confession turns us into accessories." "You approach the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution [VS]." "Tell them the truth without holding back and mention all names." "That will improve your position in trial by a margin." "Do you know the new witness protection law?" "They enacted it for the RAF terrorists." "Whoever confesses is exempted from punishment and gets a new identity." "You start with a new name somewhere else." "But before that, we do a top-notch telecast." "A true killer." "Prime time." "That's good for you and good for me." "Among friends." "That's how it's done." "I'm going to ask you a few questions now, Mr. Koch." "Can I read a statement before the interrogation starts?" "Sure." "One thing in advance." "We don't conduct interrogations." "It's just a questioning." "Please read out." "I cooperate with the VS although it breaks any hacker ethics." "They assured me that a press publication is feasible right after the arrest of all accomplices." "Just read on, I'm listening." "I need the money to start a new life." "I tried to provide access to information for everybody to prevent an impending war." "I failed." "Captain Hagbard Celine doesn't exist anymore." "But as Karl Koch, I'll start from scratch in another city." "Two weeks of gruelling interrogations at VS and BKA broke me down." "I was burned-out, wanted nothing but peace." "My apartment was closed and all evidence was seized for the trial." "They acquired a small room for me in a quite suburb and a half-day job as a driver." "I permanently feared to encounter Lupo or Pepe and tried to figure out when they get arrested." "Hence, I phoned the TV station but Weber wouldn't talk to me and Maiwald had left I'm told." "When it finally happened, the pictures seemed so unreal." "Weber played the matter way up." "All names were mentioned." "I never received any money." "...largest spy incident since the exposure of chancellor spy Guillaume." "Dear David, when you read these lines journalists will trace us already." "Whatever happens, I want you to know that our friendship was most important to me." "Remember the sentence of Hagbard Celine." ""Nothing is true." "Everything is allowed." Yours, Karl." "[Computer spies from Hanover revealed.]" "Mrs. president, I accept the vote." "On May 23, Karl Koch left for a business-related drive he didn't come back from." "One week later, his charred corpse was found in a nearby forest." "Karl was 23 years old." "Half a year later, the trial opened with considerable public response." "The prosecution failed to prove that any harm was actually done to Germany or USA." "Lupo was convicted for 12 months in prison, Pepe for 24 months." "Both sentences were suspended for probation." "David appeared as principal witness in court and was exempted from punishment." "He reported exclusively in Stern about the KGB hack."