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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 2 of 10
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==Phrack Pro-Phile IV==
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Written and Created by Taran King
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June 28, 1986
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile IV. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring info to
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you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people. This
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month, I bring to you one of the most influential users of our times and of
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days of old...
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Scan Man
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Scan Man is the sysop of Pirate 80 (P-80), a telcom enthusiasts' bulletin board
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in Charleston, West Virginia (304).
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Personal
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Handle: Scan Man
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Call him: Scan Man
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Past handles: None
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Handle origin: Thought it up while writing a scanning program.
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Date of Birth: 8/30/53
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Age at current date: 32 years old
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Height: 6'1
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Weight: About 225 lbs.
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Eye color: Green
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Hair Color: Dark Blond to Light Brown
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Computers: 2 TRS Model I's (one of which the BBS is run on), Tandy
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Model 1000 (IBM Compatible), a 132 Column Dot Matrix, a
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132 Column Daisy Wheel, a Model 100 Portable, a TRS Color
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Computer, and a backup 80 Column Dot Matrix Printer.
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Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Pirate 80 (P-80)
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Scan Man started out in the BBS world about 7 years ago when he first got his
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modem, a 300 Baud Auto-Answer/Auto-Dial Micro-Connection Modem (made by Micro
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Peripheral Corp.) with tape input and output. Pirate 80 went up 4 years ago
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this Halloween, which consisted of a TRS Model 1, 3 40 track, single sided,
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double density floppies, and a 300 baud modem (which held up until 6 months
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ago).
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At the time of arising, the board was put up for interests in phreaking,
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hacking, as well as pirating. Within the first 6 months to now, Scan Man had
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gone through 6 BBS programs, and is quite satisfied with the current one.
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First, he started with a pirated version of TBBS 1.2, then an upgrade to 1.3,
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pirated again (occurred and at the same time a hard drive was added after a
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number of disk drive changes and modifications). Scan Man, through his BBS
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(which was in the first 5 all phreak/hack BBS's to ever go up, and is the
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oldest phreak board in the country), has met or talked to what he considers
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"anybody who is anybody".
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At 11 years old, he found a few old phones, took them apart, and got them
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working, which was when his interest in telecom arose. He was led into the
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phreak world when he became aware that he could phreak (articles he read such
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as blue box articles). At the time, BBS's and personal computers did not exist
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at this time.
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The first board he called that involved phreaking was the old Pirate's Harbor.
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An anonymous message posted there had a few alternate long distance service
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codes posted. He was very excited that he had stumbled upon this thrill and he
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spent the first year or so calling around finding exactly what everyone was
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into and from there forward he started manufacturing various devices with The
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Researcher. They worked together and learned together.
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Because so much information posted was inaccurate, they did this to make it
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accurate and found out what was the real stories. The more memorable phreak
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boards that he was on included Plovernet, (and all pre-Plovernet), L.O.D., AT&T
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Phone Center, Pirates of Puget Sound, as well as a few others which he couldn't
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remember offhand because it was so long ago.
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Scan Man's works as a computer consultant (systems analyst). He checks
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security as well as enhancements, improvements, and debugging. He's been doing
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this for about a year now.
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Scan Man's hack/phreak interests are unknown to his employers. He has attended
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various things including sneaking into a seminar on the DMS-250 Digital
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Switching System, and before that, TelePub'86, and he's sneaked into other
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various telcom/computer security seminars. He starts one project at a time and
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does things step by step. He's very concentrated in his projects.
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Scan Man frowns upon groups and says, "If you're any damn good at all, you're
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going to get a reputation whether you like it or not."
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Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking, satellite
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scanning), white water rafting, snow skiing, dancing (he used to be
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a roller skating dance/disco instructor), and boating.
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Scan Man's Favorite Things
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Foods: Junk food, or an expensive restaurant once a week or so.
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Movies: He's a movie buff, and goes regularly, by himself even.
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Animals: He's an animal lover.
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Pyrotechnics: They manufacture various fireworks as a hobby.
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Most Memorable Experiences
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The Newsweek Incident with Richard Sandza.
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Last year's New Years' Phreak Party.
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Some People to Mention
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The Researcher (for helping him out in starting out with phreak/hacking.)
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The Coco Wizard (helped a lot with the BBS and the hardware on the computer.)
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King Blotto, Mr. Gucci, and The Scanner (people he could do without.)
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Scan Man dislikes the bickering and fighting between the phone phreaks of
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modern day because they're just fighting to climb the social ladder. He
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dislikes the current phone phreaks because they're not in it to learn, and are
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only in it to gain a big reputation. The old phreaks were those that wanted to
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be there because they were a student of the network and had a true desire to
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learn. It's become an ego/power-trip of the modern teenage America. They're
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only in it to impress other people, and write philes just to get the
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reputation, rather than to write it for the information in it, and collect them
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only to say their collection is sizable. He feels that credit cards are voodoo
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because it seems to be what people and sysops get busted for the most.
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I hope you enjoyed this phile, 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? 90% of the phreaks, yes. 10% or less
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are in it to learn. He respects that small percentage. Thank you for your
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time, Scan Man.
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Taran King
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Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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