But who also enjoy breaking in for the sheer love of secret codes. Old copies are still to be found in xs4all offices. Lock picking is not intended for thieves, but for people intent on peeking around somewhere without leaving traces. The mag writes proudly about one of the editor spending a night poking around in a police station. The people working at xs4all still do not conform to the image of your average employee.
Men sport long hair and earrings, and few have actually completed their academic courses.
People who want to be member of an organisation that supports free media, such as B92 for instance. No wonder that protests were rife when KPN-Telecom took over. The commercial giant would certainly make short shrifts of xs4all's idealism. A tour along the premises leads along a number of smoking dens, which turn out to be carefully replicated filmdecors. An other smoking den is inspired by the world of 'Accion Mutante', a totally obscure SciFi reel that never made it to the Dutch movie-houses.