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.oO Phrack 49 Oo.
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Volume Seven, Issue Forty-Nine
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4 of 16
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-:[ Phrack Pro-Phile ]:-
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We discussed for a long time who in the hacking world today best
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exemplifies everything that is right with hacking today, and we came
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up with a unanimous conclusion that it was Mudge. And so we were quite
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happy that our first choice for the first pro-phile that we have done
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accepted our invitation. He cracked your Apple warez when you couldn't,
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he wrote buffer overflows before they were cool, he owned your Sendmail
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(and probably still does), and he still manages to give more back to the
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community than anyone else around. We can't say much more about him so
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let's see what he has to say for himself...
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Mudge
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Personal
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Handle: mudge
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Call him: Enough people know it that its not secret, if you know
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it great, if not you probably don't have to.
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Past handles: Many old Apple ][ crackers remember me by a different
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handle. That handle is long put to rest thanks to the
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government.
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Handle origin: Mudge is a very common Irish last name. Though I'm not
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Irish I met someone with the name and couldn't believe
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it was a proper name. Out of homage to this person I
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took it as a handle several years ago (and since I
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couldn't use the old one for legal reasons).
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Date of Birth: Mid to Late '60s
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Age at current date: Mid to Late 20s
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Height: 6'0"
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Weight: 150
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Eye color: Blue
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Hair Color: Brownish / dirty blonde and loooong
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Computer: MPP Risc machine with 16 processors, 4 processor i860
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Cadmus, 2 Sparcs, my original Apple ][+, NeXT cube,
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486, 4 Sun 3's, Textronix 4051, SouthWest Technical
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Products 75
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Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Cell-Block, Magic Tavern, Co-Sysop on the old Circus
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and Circus-II boards, ATDT, Works, and various AEs
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scattered across the country. And a little place
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called the l0pht.
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Boards Frequented: Terrapin Station, Metal Shop, Black Crawling Systems,
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Used to hang on Rutgers' with the old Darpa people
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(they know who they are) through telenet.
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Net address: mudge@l0pht.com
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Favorite Things
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Women: Not a big womanizer, when I hook up with someone it's usually
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for quite some time. Though it's always nice when big companies
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try to bribe you other ways. (Moreso 'cause it shows how sleazy
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the big companies are in comparison to human beings :>)
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Cars: Ford GT40, Porsche Wolf, Ferrari 318's, and of course a black
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SVT Cobra with black leather interior.
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Foods: Beer
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Beers: Mateen Triple - with a runner up of Pilsner Urquell
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Music: Frank Zappa, Dream Theater, Rush, Gentle Giant, King Crimson
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Instruments: Guitar. I actually hold advanced degrees in music (hehe had
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to make some money so here I am back in the 'puter world).
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Guitars: Ibanez 7 string, Gibson es225 Jazzer, and a custom built Ibanez
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from an endorsement deal (which is signed by 2 porn stars)
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Books: Jack of Shadows, Roadmarks, Stranger in a Strange Land,
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This Immortal, Steal this Urine Test, Steal this Book, PANIC -
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the wonderful Sparc buffer overflow writers bible.
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Turn Ons: Pet Rocks
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Turn Offs: 7/11 employees who think they can dance to Frank Zappa
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Other Passions, Interests, Loves:
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I love running the l0pht and the people that are involved in it. There's
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nothing like knowing that you are, at least attempting, to keep information
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flowing and offering back to the community. I love a lot of things. It's
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nice to see there is a sense of humor in the scene, and that there are still
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enough old-school hackers that are willing to help if approached correctly
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Granted there aren't enough of the older ones to answer every aol.com
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e-mail... It's a great feeling to be beneficial to both sides. For instance:
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when the 8.7.5 sploit went out and when we were doing a lot of work on SecureID
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(which much to their schagrin we got *really* far) that both the people writing
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the software and the hackers were happy to see our results. It's all about
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information and learning. If you stop learning... you're not doing it right.
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Unfortunately... it usually takes disseminating sploits to get some of the
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large companies to fix their buggy software.
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Most Memorable Experiences
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Having a bunch of suits get out of, yes, K-cars and take away most of my
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belongings - learning 6502 (and living it) assembler - writing my first
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buffer overflow a few years back - the band cutting it's first audio CD -
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playing the music for one of Hobbit's laser shows - having Wietse Venema
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ask me "not" to break into bell labs at a talk he was giving - having the
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bellcore author of the OTP RFC write me e-mail realizing that I had beaten
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him to the punch with vulnerabilities - everyday that I spend with my
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girlfriend - hearing one of the songs I wrote and played on being played
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on the radio - The L0pht and it's people - everytime that you finish working
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on a new project and it actually works [especially when you are working on
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a hypothetical exploit and it pans out].
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Some People to Mention
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Cheshire Catalyst for the initial inspiration. The L0pht folks, Raven,
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Hobbit for being a flat out brilliant fucker, ReDragon (best sense of humor -
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and best patience... look who he works for ;-)), Glyph - one nasty coder,
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Squarewave for providing countless hours of ooh's and aahhh's while
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pouring through his code. The NewHack folks. G-heap, Pope, SpaceRogue,
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Kingpin, Tan, Weld, Stefan, Brian Oblivion, t-com, all the standard
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people that hang out and have a good time at the cons with the l0pht folks
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(ie the r00t, NHC, l0ck/anti l0ck, cDc...) shit ALL the cDc folks. etc.,
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etc. etc. The ASR guys. There are so many people that have contributed so
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much. I'm sure I've left out many.
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The biggest one: my father [the only person who could sit there and grin
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through all of it... and explain the leafing procedures and how the 6502
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REALLY worked] (that's not leafing through on the Apple ][+... two
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separate things).
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A few things you would like to say:
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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French Toast please...
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31337 is not a strong XOR key...
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(unless your secret host key is less than 5 characters long)
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Thanks to the new phrack lineup for keeping a good thing going.
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Still remember DL'ing the latest ones along with the Countlegger series
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and having to Dalton's Disk Disintegrator them back together.
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Oh yeah...
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and if someone tells you something is secure...
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ask them to prove it, and then STILL don't believe them.
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One last thing, in your personal experience, have you found that most
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people in the scene are pretty much computer geeks?
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"Absolutely not. I've had the privilege to hang out with everyone from
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Weitse Venema, Dan Farmer, Casper Dik, Peter Guttman, to the hacker scene
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like Hobbit, Daemon9, the l0pht folks... and there's very few out of the
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bunch that I would label 'computer geeks'. Computer geeks seem not to have
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that creative twist in many cases that hackers have. This is the same twist
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that says: I don't care what it's _supposed_ to do - I bet I can make it do
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*this*."
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Thanks a lot for the prophile.
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"Thanks a lot for the opportunity."
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