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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Two, Issue 12, Phile #2 of 11
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==Phrack Pro-Phile IX==
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Written and Created by Taran King
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3/17/87
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile V. 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 name from the past...
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Agrajag The Prolonged
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Agrajag was popular on many boards and hung out with many of the
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stronger names in the phreak/hack community.
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Personal
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Handle: Agrajag The Prolonged
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Call him: Keith
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Past handles: None
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Handle origin: Fictional character in Hitchhiker Trilogy
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Date of Birth: 6/14/67
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Age at current date: 19 years old
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Height: 6'2"
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Weight: 139 lbs.
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Eye color: Brown
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Hair Color: Depends on the day (Orange, Brown, Black, Hot Pink, etc.)
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Computers: TRS Model III, worked his way up to a TVI 950 Dumb
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Terminal
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Agrajag started phreaking and hacking in about 1979 through the help
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of some friends of his. He originally started hacking (programming) on a
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Vector 8080 in 4th grade. His instructor then is now one of the top 5
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computer instructors. Phreaking began with, of course, codes but he was very
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interested in how the phone system worked. He had read some books on the
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phone company and their evils in their earlier days and he was very interested
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in the very idea of becoming an operator. Members of the elite world which he
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has met include Tuc, BIOC Agent 003, Broadway Hacker (negative), and Cheshire
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Catalyst, all at a Tap meeting he attended. On regular BBSes, there were
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listings for other BBSes which turned out to eventually be phreak BBSes. Some
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of the memorable phreak boards he was on included WOPR, OSUNY, Plovernet, and
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Pirate 80. His phreaking and hacking knowledge came about with the group of
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people including Tuc, BIOC, and Karl Marx.
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Agrajag was a video game programmer for the last American owned video
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game manufacturer, Cinematronix, Inc. (of Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, World
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Series, and Danger Zone fame, of which he helped with World Series and a big
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part of Danger Zone) which went bankrupt a bit over a month ago.
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Agrajag takes interviews for magazines (such as this) which keeps up
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his phreak/hack activity. He (and a bunch of others) were written up in a USA
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Today article as well as being interviewed by a local paper when The Cracker
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(Bill Landreth) got busted (they took pictures of the back of his head in
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front of his computer).
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Agrajag was never in any major phreak groups except for The
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Hitchhikers (Bring your towel!) which was just a group of local friends.
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Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking,
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programming), music, concerts, club hopping, and video
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games.
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Agrajag's Favorite Thing
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Club/Bar hopping: Tijuanna (TJ)
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Most Memorable Experiences
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Going officing. Tuc, BIOC, and he were let into a local CO and they used
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their copying machine to make copies of their manuals. They
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replaced the paper [over 2 reams] later and didn't steal anything
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major besides the paper and a few NY Bell signs.
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Called supervisors saying that they had witnessed some trunks red-lighting and
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there would be severe problems if they didn't contact this guy,
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Abbot Went, in San Francisco. There were about 10 supervisors in
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mass hysteria (on Thanksgiving) wondering what to do. Later, they
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called up Abbot again saying they were the White House switch and
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said some kids were fooling around.
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Breaking into his school's computer in his senior year mid-semester. He had
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scanned it out on a school prefix and the login and password was the
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name of his school. It was a TOPS-20 system and he was well enough
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versed in TOPS-20 to know what to do. The next day, he told the
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vice-principal that he had broken into the computer and that they
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had some major security problems. They said he was bullshitting and
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he told them to read their mail. Then, later, he brought in his
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equipment and showed them with the principal there. He was
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threatened by the principal with police, etc. but he told them to go
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to hell. He was later offered a job helping the security on the
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system but instead, he told them how they could solve the security
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problem and didn't take the job.
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Agrajag's teacher asking him to do a credit check on someone illegally. He
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eventually did part of it, but the teacher was an asshole so he
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didn't give all the information to him.
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Getting flown to the Tap meeting by a friend.
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Some People to Mention
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Tuc
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BIOC Agent 003
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Karl Marx
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Automatic Jack
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All for being friends and all around good people and phreaks.
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Agrajag is out and out against the idea of the destruction of data.
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He hated a person intensely because they posted private lines with
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instructions on how to maim a system owned by someone who was already hated.
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He deleted the message (he was co-sysop) and it became a bit controversial.
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He hated that then and still has no respect for anyone who does this. Where
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have all the good times gone?
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I hope you enjoyed this phile, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming
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in the near future. ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all
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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? The general populus, yes, but good
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phreaks, no. Thank you for your time, Agrajag.
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Taran King
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Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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