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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Eight, File 3 of 15
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==Phrack Pro-Phile==
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Written by Dispater
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Created by Taran King (1986)
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Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile. 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 the original of the controversial New TAP Magazine.
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Aristotle
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Personal
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Handle: Aristotle
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Call him: Kevin
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Past handles: Ed, Bob, Bill, and a multitude of other lame handles.
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Handle origin: Humanities class in high school.
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Date of Birth: April 12, 1970
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Age at current date: 22
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Height: 5'10"
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Weight: 145 lbs.
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Eye color: Blue
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Hair Color: Red
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Computer: IBM-PS/2 55SX
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Sysop/Co-Sysop of: ALL PAST: Digital Underground, Blitzkreig, some board on
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a major packet switching network, a board on MIT's FSF
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machines, and a bazillion other lame boards that I don't
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care to mention.
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I was one of those people that played with phones for as long as I can
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remember. I guess you could say I started phreaking a few years before
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WARGAMES came out. After the movie, I found out that other people were
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interested in phones too. Due to the influx of "elite hackers" after the
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movie, information became extrememly available. This lead to my existence in
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the real world of hack/phreak.
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Eventually I ended up writing articles for both 2600 and TAP. In the late
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80s I restarted TAP with help from some friends and we started to revive one
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of the first hack/phreak magzines that ever existed.
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Having TAP helped us gain a special insight on how the system really
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works. Some of our issues were cool enough to actually be censored at certain
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institutions where avid censorship still exists. Also, we were allowed to see
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how far you could go in expressing your opinion until some bigshot noticed.
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Believe it or not though, running a periodical without any income is a
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major pain. It was well worth it though as I got to meet a lot of cool people
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and also was able to do something for the computer underground scene. If you
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currently don't support magazines like 2600, etc., please do. They are doing a
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lot of work for the community and without them, there would be a major gap in
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the press regarding the truth about our community.
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I exited the hack/phreak world when things got a bit hairy and Craig
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(Knight Lightning) got nailed. I simply decided that a hobby is not worth
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going to jail for and that it did not pay the bills either. Anyways, most old
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hacks eventually reach the point where everything they see seems old and
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boring. This is where I currently am.
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Today I am employed at a computer lab at a large university where I am
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working on a degree.
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Aristotle's Favorite Things
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Women: Karen (To be married soon)
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Cars: REAL Cars: '86 Mustang GT, '86 VW Golf, various Porsches.
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Foods: Anything that you cannot get at a drive-thru.
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Music: Metallica, Bach, Danzig, Anthrax.
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Authors: All the posters of Alt.Sex
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Books: The Art of War
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Outdoor fun: Snowboarding
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Most Memorable Experiences
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o Getting engaged
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o My first blue box call
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o Watching some guy die after wrecking his car
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o Being interviewed by the FBI for something I did not do and then pissing
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them off by allowing them to prove that they were wrong.
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o All of the SummerCons and other assorted h/p meetings.
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Some People to Mention
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o Bill from RNOC : Getting us kicked out of the museum at the Arch.
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o Cheshire Catalyst : Help with restarting TAP.
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o Slave Driver : For his hospitality and the infamous "Guess who/what died in
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the couch" game.
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o The Mentor : For the BBS and his non-snobbish attitude.
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o J.R. "Bob" Dobbs : All the cool blue box info.
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o The Not : All the help with Unix
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o Taran King : For being an exception to the "Hackers are all geeks" rule.
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o Knight Lightning : For sending back the pictures and generally being a cool
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guy.
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o Dispater : For having the no-bullshit attitude and actually getting the job
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done.
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o Nite Ranger : For helping me realize that lamers will always exist (not you
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though).
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o Predat0r : All the experiences.
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o All the Legion of d0oDs : For adding to the entertainment at PartyCon.
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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?
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Of the general population, I would consider about 89.9% to be nerds. I
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would also consider 65% of the entire population nerds and/or strange. Phreaks
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may be geeks but each usually has his/her cool qualities as everyone does.
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Most are socially lacking though. Keep in mind that a hacker/phreak is ALWAYS
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better than the average GIF viewing geek.
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