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==Phrack Inc.=
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Volume Two, Issue 10, Phile #2 of 9
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==Phrack Pro-Phile 7==
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Written and Created by Taran King
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12/15/86
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile 7. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring
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info to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people.
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This month, I bring to you a user from the golden years of hacking and
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phreaking...
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Dave Starr
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Dave is one of the old phreakers and hackers that accomplished so
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much through voice phreaking and literal hacking rather than reading others'
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findings to learn. A master engineer, voice phreaking is one unto itself.
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Dave has a PhD in B.S.
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Personal
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Handle: Dave Starr
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Call him: Dave Starr
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Past handles: Micronet Phantom and Big Brother
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Handle origin: Micronet Phantom came from working with The Source
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computer and Big Brother, of course, came from George
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Orwell's 1984.
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Date of Birth: 5/6/62
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Age at current date: 24
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Height: 6' 0"
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Weight: 170 lbs.
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Eye color: Brown
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Hair Color: Light Brown
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Computers: TRS-80 (4k version), Apple ][, ][+, ][e
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Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Starcom Network
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Dave started out on The Source, and stuck with them for 6 to 8 months
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hacking around the system because the system was so slow security-wise, and of
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course, from there, he got involved with hacking Primes. One of the security
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agents named Paul from Dialcom got in contact with Dave and discussed Dave's
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hacking on The Source (his system). After talking, they found they had common
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interests, which included hacking and phreaking. Paul gave Dave his first
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code to a local dial-up for Sprint. He also led him in the direction of 8BBS,
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which brought him to meet the best of the nation's phreakers and hackers at
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the time, which included Susan Thunder, Roscoe DuPran, and Kevin Mitnick.
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Susan and Roscoe were strong friends of Dave that he personally met as well as
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Kevin, but he never met Kevin. He met Susan in the L.A. County Courthouse
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testifying against her, with Susan and Roscoe using these handles as real
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names on the charges of harassment. The phreak/hack BBS's that were most
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memorable for Dave were 8BBS and his own, Starcom Network, which had hidden
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commands for accessing the phreak section. Starcom Network was a nationally
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networked system that Dave created and operated. This was a virtual copy of
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The Source, for which he went to court over. They claimed it was their
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system, but he supressed them with a threat of publicity. Modem Over
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Manhattan was another memorable board on a TRS-80. He attributes his phreak
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knowledge to Paul from Dialcom and to The Source for his hacking ability as
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well as Susan Thunder for information on RSTS.
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Dave Starr does intelligence and counter-intelligence work for anyone
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who has money and who is not against the United States or the views of the
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United States.
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Dave has always operated independently, never being a member of a
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club or group, and has hand-picked his partners.
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Interests: Telecomputing (phreaking and hacking), movies, a
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fascination with the match-making systems (Dial-Your-Match
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type systems), fun, video components.
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Dave's Favorite Things
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Women: A quiet evening with the girlfriends (NOTE: Plural).
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Cars: Mercedes 450-SL (his girlfriend's).
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Foods: Italian.
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Music: Anything excluding acid rock/heavy metal.
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Leisure: Smoking, but he hates cigarettes.
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Most Memorable Experiences
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Bringing The Source's system to their knees.
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The Source hackers made demands of a rate of reduction to a minimum of a 33%
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decrease, which was sent with the comment, "I am in business so I understand
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the money, but you are becoming too fucking greedy." Also, an article in
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Source-World magazine was demanded, bigger than the one in the last issue
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which was to contain the following: how long they'd been on the Source, why
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they were doing this, The Source's demented point of view, their correct
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point of view, how long they have been terrorizing the Source, and an apology
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for lying to all the users that the rate increase was necessary, AND an open
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apology to The Pirate and Micronet Phantom saying sorry for all the trouble
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The Source had caused them in their quest for fair and free Sourcing. They
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wanted 2 seclev 4 accounts (normal is 3). They assured The Source that they
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could get them here for free, and low-and-behold, they could create anything,
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but they didn't want the harassment. If they did get harassed, they would
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immediately log in under seclev 7 and kill the system. The threatened that
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various accounts would be killed (all with seclev 4 and up). The Source
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person wrote, "Was this ever answered?". They then went on to say that they
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wouldn't do any more terrorizing provided that it was responded to their
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acct. within 20 minutes.
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For deleting an account, he sent back a message saying, "Fuck you". He
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explained how they were powerless against The Pirate and Micronet Phantom,
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and how The Source shouldn't even try to catch them. They were to continue
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to attack "The Empire" (The Source) until it was fair for the users.
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Numerous other letters that played to the same tune.
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Some People to Mention
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TCA Vic of The Source - Customer Service Manager/Gestapo Police
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(Who he dearly hated and always has thought of
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sticking a broomstick up his ass)
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Paul of Dialcom (Introduced him to phreaking and put his paranoia to rest)
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Susan Thunder (For teaching him RSTS and other things)
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Bruce Patton (On his rag list due to a disagreement. He received a
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electricity shut-down and a phone system shut-down of his law
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office as well as forwarding all calls to the 8BBS)
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Roscoe DuPran (For having him go to court with him and meeting Susan in
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person and for many other things [unmentionable here])
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The Pirate of Las Vegas (For his helpful continual harassment of The Source)
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Kevin Metnick (For his infrequent but helpful service)
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Larry of Modem Over Manhattan (For being there and his BBS being there)
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Bernard of 8BBS (For being there and his BBS being there)
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I hope you enjoyed this file, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming in
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the near future. ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all interviewees.
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Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most
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phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? Only The Pirate, a 13 year old, fit
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this description. Thank you for your time, Dave.
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Taran King
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Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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