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.oO Phrack 50 Oo.
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Volume Seven, Issue Fifty
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4 of 16
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-:[ Phrack Pro-Phile ]:-
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Aleph One
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~~~~~~~~~
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Personal
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Handle: Aleph One
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Call him: Aleph
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Past handles: None
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Handle origin: Transfinite Math
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("Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker)
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Date of Birth: 1974
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Height: 6 feet
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Weight: No idea.
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Eye color: Olive
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Hair Color: Dark Brown
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Computers: Two
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Admin of: Underground.Org, and BugTraq
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Sites Frequented: None. I got better things to do with my time.
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URLs: http://www.disinfo.com/
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Favorite Things
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Women: Intelligent, sexy with beautiful eyes and class.
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Cars: None. They are a pain. Ride a motorcycle.
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Foods: Exotic. Sushi (Anago), Arab, Chinese, Vietnamese,
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Thai, Indian, Ethiopian. Seafood. Meat. Anything on
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a grill. Anything flamb. Wine: Chianti.
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Music: Techno: Leftfield, Orbital, Underworld, Electric
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Skychurch, Prodigy, Juno Reacto,
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Chemical Brothers, Ambient, GOA Trace.
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Rock: Tool, Marylin Mason, Beck, Garbage, NIN.
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Classical: Bach, Baroque
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Soundtracks: Natural Born Killers, The Piano, Braveheart,
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RobRoy.
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Books: "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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"Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker
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"100 Years of Solitude" (in Spanish)
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by Gabriel Garcia Marques
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"Metamorphosis" by Kafka
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Turn Ons: Intelligence. Class. Pierced belly buttons.
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Tasteful tattoos. Long hair.
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Turn Offs: Ignorance. Attitude. Bad tattoos.
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Other passions, interests, loves:
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Painting - Went to a painting/drawing class for 3 years. Did
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everything from pencil, pastels, up to watercolors. I stopped going
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when I started working with oils. I haven't painted in almost 7 years.
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Too bad, I enjoyed it.
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Math - For some reason I always liked math. I hated doing exercises,
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but always liked the theory. Guess that's why my grades were not
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better. I was intending to do a minor in math but I quit school
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before that ever happened...
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Reading - One of the things I value the most are my books. I really enjoy
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reading. Sadly, lately, all I read are technical books. I need to
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start reading other stuff again.
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AI - When I started fooling around with computers I wanted to go into AI,
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but the lack of material at my disposition at the time kept me from
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delving into it too much.
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Most memorable experiences:
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Death - It marks your life for ever.
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Burning Man '95 - One of the most intense experiences of my life.
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Nothing can compare to the creation and expression of this community
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that grows and dies in one of the most inhospitable, yet more
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beautiful, places on earth.
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Some people to mention:
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Annaliza (for all the rides from work, all the adventures, always being
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there, and the hot cocoa)
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Luis (for all the good times, the bad times, and begin one fucking
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crazy Spanish cosaco)
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Mr. Upsetter, Buckaroo Banzai, Dan, Rod & Rika, Sir Dystic, Freqout,
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White Knight & Loren (for being good friends)
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Intrepid Traveller (for giving me the number to Lunatic Labs)
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Noid, Pappy, Phax, Elvis Smurf, Ming of Mongo, TRW, Clockwork, and the
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rest of the old LA 2600 crew (for being themselves)
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Veggie (for being larger than life)
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Mycroft (who would have thought?)
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r00t (for being elite)
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A few things you would like to say:
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Knowledge come from within.
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The New Security Threat: Disinformation
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Statistics show that network break-ins are on the rise. Entities
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connecting to the Net expect to be broken into. They know it's only
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a matter of time before some random hacker targets their machines using
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the latest warez to bypass their firewall and break into their machine.
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They have seen it happen over and over. The CIA, DOJ, NASA, MGM/UA, etc.
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The modus operandi is always the same: Deface the web page, or trash the
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machines. For this occurrence they have prepared. Backups are in place, and
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ready to be used. Hacked web pages hardly stay up more than half and hour
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before they are taken down. What ever message the hackers wanted to deliver
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was probably only seen by a handful of people. There no longer is any
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incentive to hack a web site that no one will see.
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So what is next? Disinformation.
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The Internet as a medium facilitates the free flow of information. Single
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individuals can reach large, as yet before unreachable audiences. Information
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that before would have been relegated to some obscure corner, now travels at
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the speed of light and is disseminated all over the world. Everyday the Net
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is becoming a more important source of leads and information for the standard
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news media. It usually only takes a few hours before some information such
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as a new product, or some new bug, published on the Net appears on TV or
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some newspaper's web site. And as more companies publish information online
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our dependence on the Net as a source of information will only increase.
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But the medium does not attempt to validate or even authenticate this
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information in most cases. A anonymous tip on some newsgroup or web site
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can cause a company a lot of headaches. Even the worst are half-truths.
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Just look at the damage control that corporations such as Microsoft and Intel
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had to do in the past. But this is only the beginning.
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What if that motivated hacker decides that instead of replacing the
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company's web site with some obscene language and graphics that will be
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taken down almost immediately we will add a small officially worded press
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release to the web site. How long until someone notices? How long until
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they realize it's a fake. Maybe we should also email the press release to
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some media contacts. What are the chances that it will be catch before it
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makes it into the news? Or that it will catch before it's discussed on some
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newsgroup with a large audience?
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The amount of damage control a well placed piece of information coming
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from a seemingly reputable source is incredible. This, I believe, is where
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future attacks lay.
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EOF
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