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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Two, Issue Eleven, Phile #2 of 12
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==Phrack Pro-Phile VIII==
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Written and Created by Taran King
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2/17/87
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile VIII. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to
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bring info to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial
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people. This month, I bring to you one of the older and high profile phreaks
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of the past...
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Wizard of Arpanet
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Wizard of Arpanet is one of the older of the phreak/hack generation.
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His main accomplishments include running Inner Circle and Secret Service BBS.
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Handle: Wizard of Arpanet
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Call him: Eric
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Past handles: The Hacker and The Priest
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Handle Origin: A real programmer on Arpanet was called The
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Wizard and Eric took his handle from him.
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Date of Birth: 02/26/69
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Age in 9 days of this writing: 18 years old
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Height: 6'1"
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Weight: 150 lbs
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Eye color: Blue
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Hair color: Dishwaterish blond
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Computers: Atari 400, Commodore 64
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Sysop/Co-sysop of: Secret Service
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Wizard of Arpanet started as your average BBS caller. He eventually
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called Central Processing Unit (a local board to him), and there were these
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funny numbers on the board. He called and tried to connect with his modem,
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but they turned out to be Sprint dial-ups. The CPU Sysop informed him of what
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to do and he started calling national BBSs. Boards that helped him to advance
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include the Twilight Zone (the sysop was the guy that wrote T-Net), OSUNY,
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Dragon's Lair, and Delta BBS. Wizard organized various groups which included
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(from earliest to most recent): PHA (Phreakers and Hackers of America) -
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(included Deep Throat, Phreak King, and Psycho Killer), The Inner Circle (1st
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one) (included Shockwave Rider, and Satan Knight aka Redrum), and The 2nd
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Inner Circle (included The Cracker, Mr. America, Napoleon Bonapart, Stainless
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Steal Rat, Big Brother, Mr. Xerox, Bootleg, Maxwell Wilke, Mandrake The
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Magician, and Zaphod Beeblebrox).
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Eric got the number to Arpanet from Dark Dante, and got on the MIT
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Research System from looking through TAC News. One night he got like 50-60
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accounts on the Unix and changed all of the passwords to WIZARD.
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Stainless Steal Rat, the Sysop of Delta BBS, and The Myth were all up
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from NJ one weekend, and they were staying the weekend at John Maxfield's
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house. They went to John's office. Wizard asked Maxfield if he could use his
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computer to print out some things he had with him and he printed out some
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stuff from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence address list for Arpanet.
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John was amazed. "Wow," he said, "I have prime evidence on you." (TK: This
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may not for sure be an exact quote). He then proceeded to bust our friend,
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Eric, the next week. He also had a lot of stuff from AUTOVON from some fellow
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in Washington and started playing with the FTS lines (Federal Telephone
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System) which he found from, none other than, John Maxfield. They had found
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the default passwords for TeleMail too, and got the administrator accounts and
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set up their own BBS on Nassau and Coca-Cola systems plus anywhere else
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possible. And all of a sudden, it all came down when Mandrake decided to
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crash parts of TeleMail. Enter, Federal Bureau of Investigations. They had
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been monitoring Eric for 6 months looking for some evidence to get him on.
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And thus, they got it. Nothing really happened, but he had to get a lawyer
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and he got some publicity in the paper. After 90 days, everything they had
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taken, with the exception of a few documents, was sent back. During those 90
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days, Eric worked as a computer security consultant at a bank making $200 an
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hour (2 hours...).
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The only "phreaks" he's met are Stainless Steal Rat and Cable Pair.
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Eric has been mentioned on local TV/News, in newspapers, USA Today,
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NY Times, Washington Post, Books, and Britannica Encyclopedia (look under
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Hacker).
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Interests: Music (preferably jazz, reggae, new wave), Eastern
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philosophy (Zen Buddhism), reading Jack Kerouac books (a
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great beatnik writer), driving aimlessly, slowly becoming
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a social recluse, physics, and Greek mathematicians.
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Eric's Favorite Things
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Women: The pursuit thereof (Karen Wilder).
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Foods: Chinese.
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Cars: BMW 320-I.
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Artist: Salvador Dali.
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Plans for next few months: Next year and a half - travelling to Montreal in
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April for a week of leisure, then jetting back to
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beautiful Detroit and continuing his studies at
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Eisenhower High School.
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Most Memorable Experiences
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Realizing all at once that everything you did 3 years ago was stupid.
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Growing into a new person.
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Gaining morals and new ideas and a new outlook.
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Some People to Mention
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Tuc (For telling him about boxing).
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Tom Tone (For calling him on his first conference).
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Magnetic Surfer (Talking to him for the first time after Sherwood Forest went
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down voice).
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John Maxfield (Meeting him).
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Stainless Steal Rat (Meeting him...with John Maxfield).
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Dark Dante (One of the legends phreakdom).
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Always follow your instinct and not your desire for you will be
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sorry because you will be lying to yourself.
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I hope you enjoyed this file. 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? No, says Eric, he considers them a new
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breed of intellect. Thanks for your time, Eric.
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Taran King
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Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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