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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Three, Issue 28, File #2 of 12
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==Phrack Pro-Phile XXVIII==
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Created and Written by Taran King
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Done on September 23, 1989
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXVIII. Phrack Pro-Phile
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was created to bring information to you, the community, about
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retired or highly important/ controversial people. This issue,
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we bring you a long time member of the hacking community and a
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charter member of the Legion Of Doom...
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Erik Bloodaxe
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Handle: Erik Bloodaxe
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Call Him: Chris
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Handle Origin: "Vikings" by ? (Don't remember)
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Date Of Birth: 20 years ago
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Current Age: 20
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Height: 5' 10"
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Weight: 130
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Eye Color: Blue
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Hair Color: Brown
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Blood Type: A+
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Sperm Count: 3
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Computers: Atari 400, various dumb terminals, CompuAdd Turbo XT
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Origins in Phreak/Hack World
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Way back when he was in 7th grade, some 8+ years back, Erik was
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quite a shoplifter. As was the norm for 13 year-olds, he and a
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friend of his had stolen a stack of "girlie" magazines on one of
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their "raids." One of these was High Society, which was toying
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with the idea of "recorded entertainment." His friend was
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determined to hear this, but as the number was in New York, they
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decided to use the "strange phone service" his mother had signed
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up for to keep down the bill. He explained it to Erik, "You dial
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this number and then tell the operator your number and the phone
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number." They called it and told the operator a number that was
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100 off by mistake. The operator said "Thank you," and the call
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went through. Thus was born a "code-abuser." They kept this
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information to themselves for several months. When the service
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changed to an automated format (rather than operator service),
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they began to share their knowledge. Word spread like wildfire.
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Interestingly enough, to this day, he can still backtrack 95% of
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all hacker-related code abuse from San Antonio back to himself as
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the originator of the information (well, a friend of a friend of
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a friend, etc..)
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Origins in Phreak/Hack BBSes
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A friend of Bloodaxe's father bought a MicroModem II to get
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information from Dialog for his legal practice. He still
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remembers the first time he used it. His friend's dad used
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Dialog through Telenet. Once he saw Telenet, he began trying
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various addresses. One of the first things he ever did was get
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into a 212 VAX/VMS with GUEST/GUEST. Erik had absolutely no idea
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what he was doing. They were just guessing... typing things like
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"hello?", "catalog", and assorted other inane things. They also
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called a few BBSes that came with the modem instructions (using
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their long-distance trick). By the end of the weekend, they had
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worked their way to Pirates' Harbor (now TIMECOR) in 617, and
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Pirates' Cove 516. From then on, he was hooked on modems. Then,
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Wargames came out. Embarrassing as it is for Erik, Wargames
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really did play a part in imbedding the idea of computer
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"hacking" in his little head. (As it did for hundreds of others
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who are too insecure to admit it.) He had his little Atari 400,
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but no modem (Hayes 300's were still hundreds of dollars).
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Another friend got an Atari Acoustic Coupler for his 800. Born
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now were the Atari Warez D00dz. For about a year, they did
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nothing but call Atari BBSes (and anything that had "Pirate" in
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its name). They did stumble onto things like the Phone Booth in
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303, OSUNY (on an OHIO Scientific, days before it went down), and
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Mines of Moria (713). Finally, he got an MPP modem. Bloodaxe
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was on it day and night. By this time they got into scanning.
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He was the one who checked everything out, as he was the one who
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was reading up on computer OSes at the UTSA library. They were
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still big into games, and they ran across a really new game
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called Behind Jaggi Lines. A guy named Devious Xevious traded
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them something called Software Blue Box for it, and gave them a
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BBS to call: Pirate-80. In 1983, Erik Bloodaxe entered the
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hack/phreak world. He was blue boxing most of his calls by then.
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People in the Phreak/Hack World Met
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Bloodaxe has only met a handful "face-to-face," but has spoken
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with almost everyone around in the "golden-years," as he was
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heavily into conferences.
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Experience Gained In the Following Ways
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Mainly trial and error. He would find a system, try to get in
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with simplistic username/password pairs, and then read help. He
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also reads a lot. He didn't speak out until he was sure of what
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he was talking about. Erik never asked any questions, but always
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listened. During the time he was a true "novice," he kept it
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fairly hidden, because he didn't want to seem stupid.
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Chris attributes the knowledge he has gained to himself.
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Memorable Phreak/Hack BBSes
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Pirate-80 (He still call to check in on Scott)
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Sherwood Forest I, II, III
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RACS III (Tuc wouldn't let him on until years after he first called!!)
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Plovernet (Before and after the move)
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COPS (Where he got mail from Lex telling him to call Legion of Doom)
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WOPR (Getting closer to what BBSes would become)
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Hacknet (217)
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Legion of Doom (The ultimate in BBSes at the time)
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Crystal Palace (OSUNY lives again!)
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Newsnet (Yes, Sir Knight's BBS)
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Blottoland (Lair of the rodents)
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Ripco (A looooooong time ago, certainly not now)
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The Broadway Show ("Well, Mike was a little off, but so what.")
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Farmers of Doom! (Run from a pay phone, complete chaos)
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The Connection (A good private BBS)
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Catch-22 (A "better" private BBS)
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The Pipeline (718)
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Freeworld II
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Executive Inn (Re-instilled his faith in BBSes)
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The Phoenix Project (What he would want his BBS to equal or
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surpass in quality)
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Black Ice (A big leak; ask anyone at the Ameritech security
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convention)
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Pure Nihilism (Too much fun!)
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Schooling/Work
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Chris is currently struggling as a Computer Science major at
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University of Texas in Austin with intentions of a PhD,
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specializing in AI research.
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Accomplishments
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Project Educate: Was supposed to replace TAP after Tuc got fed
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up. No one really knows what happened to it.
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LOD/H TJ: Assorted work, major distributor.
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Numerous files.
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Phreak/Hack Groups
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LOD - In the original recruitment group, still in, still active.
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What more can be said? "LOD!" basically sums it all up.
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Camorra - Erik still gets mad about this. He was asked by the
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602 Scorpion to join a group that was being formed. He
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agreed, and he then came up with Camorra as a name.
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The other members were Ax Murderer and 301 Executioner.
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He got Dr. Who, Silver Sabre, and Pit Fiend to join and
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Karl Marx, Tuc, and Videosmith were kind of
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in/out-not-really-into-groups-but-we'll-hang-out kind
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of members. Most of them were deep into their
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phones/computers. They were planning a series of
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files, such as the first Tymnet directory, a great
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COSMOS file, a database of scans, etc. Suddenly people
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began appearing in the group that no one voted on. The
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group kind of split up into two factions, "us and
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them." Bloodaxe and Dr. Who just got mad and blew it
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all off. Pit Fiend got busted, and the Scorpion
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disappeared.
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Interests
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Packet networks (all), telco computers, Unixes, scanning (every night for
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almost 5 years!)
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Favorite Things
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Beer--Tsing Tao, Michelob Dry, Coors Light. (He am in college, you know!)
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Ecstasy--Grinding away (His teeth and his mind).
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Getting into a system on the first try.
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Unprotected crontab files.
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Scanning. Anything, for anything, just doing it!
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A certain shapely 5'2" blonde who shall remain nameless.
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Most Memorable Experiences
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Alliance Teleconferencing way back when. Tandem scanning out
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other sites in Houston and Dallas. Transferring control to
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directory assistance ACD loops, and leaving it there until he
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wanted to run one. Waking up the next morning and yelling into
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the phone at everyone else who had stayed on the conference and
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starting to talk again. Conferences that lasted a week.
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Catching Draper in lies. Busying out all the 408 DA's. Boxing
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on a conference and trunking Karl Marx. Calling random numbers
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in California and adding them in if they sounded like teenage
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girls. "Giving" people unlimited trial usage of a "new" long
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distance service (LOD Telecommunications). Jennifer, the
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Alliance operator who had it out for him ("This is that
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Bloody-axe person isn't it?").
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The Wharton School of Business Dec-10. For nearly a month all
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the nation's top phreaks and hackers hung out on this system and
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used the chat program. It was "the" place to be (kind of like an
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Altger Altos of the past, but no idiots). Finally they killed
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the account, not because of abuse, but because they were loading
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the system down. The students and operators were really cool
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about the whole thing.
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Finding (and spreading around everywhere) the White House Signal
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number. A number of my friends kept calling it, posing as the
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mayor of San Antonio, Henry Cisneros, eventually causing the
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Secret Service call our high school, and telling the
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administrators to grab the people using the payphone to find out
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what the hell they were trying to do.
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Taking down almost every BBS in Alaska when he was denied access
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to one. He pulled the poor kid's parents credit report, sent a
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copy to the kid over his modem, and disconnected the kid's phone,
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electricity, and water. He then went around taking down the
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BBSes where the kid had friends (guilt by association). Word got
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around the nation kind of fast. Erik got on most BBSes without
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much trouble after all that. He had a project to be on at least
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one BBS in every area code. Bloodaxe had to get on
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non-hack/pirate ones in a few areas, but he managed to do it. He
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stayed active on all of them for several months. At one time, he
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was on about 140 BBSes!!!
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Reading a new edition of Newsweek with a story by Richard Sandza
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in it over a very crowded conference, then suggesting that he
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should get some Slim Whitman albums and Civil War Chess Sets via
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his Visa. Erik pulled his history, to scare him, but lost it.
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When he pulled it later, there were nearly 100 inquiries, most by
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a certain Massachusetts Bank. At least they gave him a good
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source for a follow-up article.
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Finding out that a certain long distance service (reselling AT&T
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WATS) would reset to a WATS dialtone when 2600 was blasted and
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then setting up a program to call MTV's 900 number repeatedly to
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ensure that Duran Duran would get severely beaten.
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Bloodaxe remembers boxing up a conference while waiting for the
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police to come, and fighting the impulse to run away. He had
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tickets carded to Philadelphia International on a flight that
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afternoon (on the conference), and Telenet Bob was ready to meet
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Erik's flight, Mark Tabas was ready to send him a blank birth
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certificate, not to mention offers to stay with Dr. Who or
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Telenet Bob for as long as he needed to get settled. Karl Marx
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talked him out of it though. He was packed and ready to leave
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and become a new person in a new city. Looking back, he's DAMN
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glad he didn't do it!
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Bloodaxe and Who-Bob deciding one fateful day to see if they
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could talk to each other's port on Telenet using an ID they had
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used for the LOD Telenet directory.
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Some People to Mention
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Dr. Who -- "My closest hacker counterpart. We joke about being
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60 with grandchildren, still having never met, calling
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each other daily, with stories about how we just
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defeated some ISDN service."
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The Mentor -- "My favorite drinking buddy. The first hacker I
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ever met face-to-face."
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Control C -- "One person who can almost equal me in outrageous
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behavior. Yes, Dan, I said almost! Nyahh Nyahh!"
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Inside Jokes
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Lame, Lame, Lame
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LEGION OF DOOM IN DALLAS...FEDS BAFFLED
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Serious Section
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Chris makes it a point to make huge filibusters on boards where
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he sees anything having even anything remotely related to
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carding. Credit card fraud truly gives hacking a bad name.
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Snooping around a VAX is just electronic voyeurism... carding a
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new modem is just flat out blue-collar crime. It's just as bad
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as breaking into a house or kicking a puppy! He does everything
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he can (even up to turning off a number) to get credit
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information taken off a BBS. He also tries to remove codes from
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BBSes. He doesn't see code abuse in the same light as credit
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card fraud, (although the law does), but posted codes are the
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quickest way to get your board busted, and your computer
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confiscated. People should just find a local outdial to wherever
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they want to call and use that. If you only make local calls
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from an outdial, it will never die, you will keep out of trouble,
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and everyone will be happy.
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Marijuana, cocaine, LSD, MDMA (& analogs), and methamphetamine
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should be legalized and sold in a controlled fashion, regulated
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by the government. Money spent currently on combatting drug
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traffic should be spent on the deficit, and on drug education and
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rehabilitation. Making petty vices illegal only breeds crime;
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look at prohibition, look at gambling, look at how fast people go
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on the highway. You cannot fight a losing battle, and therefore,
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must take on a new strategy. Alcohol is the only drug he has
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ever imbibed and lost all consciousness and complete control of
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his actions. He thinks it is THE most dangerous drug around, and
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anyone can get as much of it as they want with very little
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effort. It is legal, but not everyone drinks. If marijuana was
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legal not everyone would smoke it. He wouldn't for one; he hates
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it. However, farmers would no longer lose their farms; and most
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importantly, the economy would be boosted greatly. Things have
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got to change.
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Are Phreaks/Hackers You've Met Generally Computer Geeks?
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Of course not. There are some that are, but generally there is
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an average sampling of the general population. Hacking is just
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another hobby. Most people who collect comic books are not all
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the same, most people who play backgammon are not similar in
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physical characteristics either. The closest stereotype he could
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ever even say existed was 6 or so years ago, and that would be
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that most hackers then were Jewish and from New York state. An
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obnoxious Texan WASP like Chris really stood out.
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Thanks for your time, Chris.
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Taran King
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