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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Two, Issue 22, File 2 of 12
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==Phrack Pro-Phile XXII==
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Created By Taran King
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Brought To You By Taran King and Knight Lightning
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Done on October 8, 1988
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXII. Phrack Pro-Phile was created to
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bring information to you, the community, about retired or highly important/
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controversial people. This issue, we bring to you a name from the past and
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a user of highly respected rankings in the history of the phreak/hack world...
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Karl Marx
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Personal
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Handle: Karl Marx
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Call Him: James Salsman
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Past Handles: None
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Handle Origin: Bloom County (Something about Capitalists and Humor)
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Date Of Birth: 12/2/67
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Height: 6"0'
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Weight: 155 lbs
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Eye Color: Blue
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Hair Color: Dark Brown
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Shoe Size: 10 1/2
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Computers: Nondeterministic turing machines
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Sysop/Co-Sysop Of: Farmers of Doom
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Origins In Phreak/Hack World:
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Manufacturing Explosives -- He wanted to blow up his High School.
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Origins In Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet!
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People In The Phreak/Hack World Met:
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The Buccaneer, Mark Tabas, Shadow Master, and a few other Colorado types.
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He also actually made it to a TAP meeting a while ago [TelePub '86], but he
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slept through it. All he remembers is that it was in New York and Scan Man
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was there in a baseball cap. He thinks it was in a "Days Inn" or
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something.
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Experience Gained In The Following Ways:
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Spending long hours pouring over Bell System Tech Journals from
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1970-Present. He suggests to anyone who wants to learn non-trivial, but
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useful things -- or who just wants to get some really *powerful*
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vocabulary for social engineering -- try using your local college or large
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public library.
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Knowledge Attributed To:
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Nearly everyone who he's ever talked to -- if you let people bullshit you
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long enough, you learn quite a bit just by figuring out why they are wrong.
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Memorable Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet, Legion of Doom, Shadowland, and of
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course the invisible 3rd level of FOD.
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Work/Schooling (Major):
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Carnegie Mellon University. He dropped out as soon as they let him work on
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interesting Cognitive Science and AI projects. He currently works at
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Expert Technologies -- the company has an expert system for putting
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together various Yellow Pages for client phone companies that he is not
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supposed to name (there's no point in naming them, 'cause by now they do
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every fucking Yellow Pages in the country -- ACK!) But that's just what
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makes the company money. He's working on user interfaces based on speech
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recogniton.
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Conventions/Involvements Outside Of Phone Calls:
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He thinks he went to that TAP [Telepub '86] meeting, but he doesn't
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remember much more than Scan Man's cap. He was INTENSELY tired and his
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girlfreind was complaining that everyone was a geek and that they had to
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find a way to get back in Pittsburgh in four hours.
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Accomplishments:
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He wrote somthing about Nitroglycerin. He probably killed a lot of
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aspiring phreaks on Plovernet by not putting in enough warnings like
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"Remember, DON'T make more than a few grams or you will be found dead and
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identified as Dinty Morre Beef Stew." He also came up with the "RESCOC --
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Remote Satellite Course Correction System" file. It was PURE bullshit, but
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with headings like "How to manuver a satelite to crash it into cities (like
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Moscow)" it was a big hit with the "Hacker-Hype" media. AT&T denied
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everything.
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Phreak/Hack Groups: He got a lot of mail saying somthing like;
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"Congratulations! You MAY ALREADY HAVE WON membership into the NEW GROUP...
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----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----
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It's the best new phreak/hack group since MIT! Just tell us everything you
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know and tell everyone else what a great group we are -- AND WE WILL LET
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YOU BE A MEMBER OF... ----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----"
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He usually ignored these "memberships." He believes Tabas understood the
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problem when he created the parody-group "Farmers of Doom."
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Interests:
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His main interest is AI. His particular application domains focus on
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Cognitive Science and Pattern recognition. He thinks he might have been
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interested in the telephone system -- but those days are over. He doesn't
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even remember the codes to do trunk selection on an RTA distribution point.
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And if the ROCs security folks think he still does that sort of thing they
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are going to have to prove it. :-)
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Favorite Things;
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Thinking: Problem Solving
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Conversation: Exchange of information
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Love: Emotional fulfillment
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Sex: Physical fulfillment
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Drugs: Introspection
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Poetry: Metaphor, Imagery
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Involvement: Sense of Self-Worth
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Music: Rhythm, Harmonics
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Food: Flavor, Satisfaction
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Breathing: Inhalation of Oxygen
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Most Memorable Experience:
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The funniest thing that ever happened to him was the time he was arrested.
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The Secret Service had bugged this hotel room and surprised them (always
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remember, SECRET service and ROOM service are not *that* different.) They
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took them to a Denver Police holding tank that was filled with non-sober
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hooligans.
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Unfortunately, he was in a business suit (having just returned from handing
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a $5,000,000.00 "certified" check to Charles Schwab in Sacramento). So
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there were all these drunk people asking me, "Ahre yha my lawer???"
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Of course, Mark Tabas had it easy in his Hawaiian print shirt, but he had
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to deal with "Whatcha here fur?" Jim told them that he was being held for
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"Fraud." That explanation didn't seem to satisfy them -- "Har, har, har!
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Fraud! The kid's in here for fraud! Let me tell you what I'm in for!
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What do you think I'm here for??"
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He didn't have the heart to tell the gentlemen that he really didn't care
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why they shared such a predicament so he responded with a blank stare.
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They then went on to describe crimes so horrible that he could hardly
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believe them, if it wasn't for the fact that most of them were at least two
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thirds covered in blood. That sort of gave them the advantage, so he went
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on to tell them that he must have been put in the wrong cell and that he
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was sure that the jailer would transfer him in just a few hours. They all
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seemed to accept that, and went on to insulting each other.
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Some People To Mention:
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o "I'd like to thank Who-Bob and T-Bob for their long hours they spent
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discussing new and innovative ESS social engineering techniques.
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o I am forever indebted to Mark Tabas for his courage and demeanor in the
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face of adversity -- which is to say that getting busted didn't bother him
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as much as disk space problems did.
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o There's this guy named "Chuck" in the 303 T5 center who I'd like to mention
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because he set up a RTA routing code for me that switched incoming toll
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trunks to BLV trunks -- if only everyone were that stupid!"
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Inside Jokes: "Sorry, sir, we were just trying to find some wire for our
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science fair project, but as there appears to be nothing here
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but coffee grounds and cigarette ashes, we had better get going.
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Have a nice day!"
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Serious Section: He's very strongly against geting busted.
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Are Phreaks/Hackers You've Met Generally Computer Geeks?
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He hopes not! Most of the people that used to be computer geeks around CMU
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now wear suits and ties and have six digit salaries. What a horrible
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thing! He wouldn't wish that on his worst enemy!
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Busted For: He was busted for being in a hotel room with Steve Dahl. He was
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convicted of the law that says, in effect "it's illegal to lie to
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somebody more powerful than you." He stopped phreaking because he
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was on probation and didn't want to go to prison. He is NOT
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planning a comeback.
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Thanks for your time James.
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Taran King and Knight Lightning
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