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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Nine, File 3 of 13
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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 one of the earlier hackers to make headlines and
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legal journals due to computer hacking...
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(_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)
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Personal
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Handle: (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)
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Call me: Herb
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Past handles: Feyd Rautha, Captain Beyond, Mental Cancer
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Handle origin: Stolen from the name of an 8-bit Atari 800 game that
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seemed to be written in the language RGL (anyone got it
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for the IBM? ;-) ).
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Date of Birth: August 6, 1970
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Age at current date: 21
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Height: 6'2"
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Weight: 190 lbs.
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Eye color: Gray
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Hair color: Brown
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Computer: 386/Linux
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I started working with computers in the 6th grade with an Atari 800 and
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a cassette drive. I added a modem and a disk drive and started researching
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other computer systems [checking out other hacker's conquests ;-) ].
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Eventually, I decided that UNIX was to be the OS of choice.
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As a child, I was always curious about stuff in my own reality, so
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naturally, when computers became available...
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I first owned an Atari 800, then an Atari ST 1040, followed by a short-
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lived Unix-PC 3B1, and a lame 20MHz 386. Currently, I have a 33MHz 386. Most
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of my hacking-type knowledge came from a text file that listed a few Unix
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defaults; I used those to go and learn more on my own. Other OSes, I just
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hacked at random 8-).
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I started out with systems that had already been penetrated and I built up
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my own database of systems from there. I wasn't too clever in the beginning,
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though, and lost a few systems to perceptive sys-admins.
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I specialized in Unix, though I enjoyed toying with obscure systems
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(RSX-11, Sorbus Realtime Basic, etc.)
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In the hack/phreak world, I used to hang out with The Prophet, The Serpent
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(Chicago), The Warrior, and others for short periods of time, who shall remain
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nameless.
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As far as what were memorable hack/phreak BBSes, I'd have to say none...
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Not that there weren't any, but I have just forgotten them all.
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My accomplishments in the phreak/hack world include writing a few text
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files, typing in a few books, getting in lots of systems, and learning a bit
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about the Unix OS. Other than that, absolutely nothing; my life is computers!
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(NOT!)
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I _was_ associated with the J-Men a few years back, but that's the only
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hack/phreak group that I ever had anything to do with.
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I was busted for overzealousness in penetrating AT&T computer networks and
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systems. I stupidly made calls from my unprotected home phone. I got caught
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trying to snag Unix SysV 3.5 68K kernel source.
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I had already given up the practice of sharing information when I realized
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how quickly systems went away after their numbers and logins were posted 8-).
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After I got busted, I decided it might be best to limit my hacking to those
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strata of reality on which it is not (yet) prohibited to hack ;-) .
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In real life, I originally was going to be an EE/CS major in school, but
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now, I'm leaning towards math/modeling/nonlinear dynamics. Work when necessary
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8-|.
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I'm into making music, drawing strange pictures, and exploring the nether
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regions of physical reality. Occasionally I am seen at sci-fi conventions in
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various forms and personages.
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I feel seriously against taking things too seriously. If you can master
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that, you've got it all beat!
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(_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)'s Favorite Things
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Work: Nihilist Ontologist.
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Cars: Fast & Loud.
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Foods: I like a little of every cuisine, except those involving large
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amounts of horseradish, beets, raw tomatoes, etc.
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Music: Ecumenical.
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Authors: R.A. Wilson is good for kicks; other than that I haven't read
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much fiction lately. Lots of non-fiction.
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Books: Illuminatus, Stranger in a Strange Land, Man or Matter, Godel
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Escher and Bach, The Book of the SubGenius.
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Performers: The people at NASA, the U.S. government beings at Washington,
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the nightly news.
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Sex: Yes.
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Most Memorable Experience
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Coming home to a house full of Secret Service, FBI, NSA, DIA, and AT&T agents
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after getting really stoned with some neighborhood friends, and then having
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them take everything electronic that didn't appear to be a household appliance
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EXCEPT the obviously stolen/dangerous items: a digital power meter, a He-Ne
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laser, and jars of chemicals for making bombs. HUMOR AT ITS FINEST!
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Some People to Mention
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o Thanks to Bill Cook for leaving no stone unturned in my personal life!
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o Thanks to "my" lawyer, Karen Plant, for leaving MANY stones unturned in
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helping to decide my fate!
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o Thanks to the U.S. Federal Justice System for sentencing me to a 9 months
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in a "juvenile facility" (as well as confiscating thousands of dollars of
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stuff, some legal & some not) while allowing burglars, politicians, and
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virus-authors to go free with a slap on the wrist!
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o Thanks for Operation Sun-Devil, without which, the venerable Ripco BBS
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would still be in its first incarnation!
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A Few Other Things
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I'd like to thank all the great beings at Lunatic Labs for not removing my
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account while I was sight-seeing in South Dakota. HI! to all my TRUE friends
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(you know who you are) and all the FALSE ones too! Where would I be now
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without you? Thanks to all those who love me enough to want to control my
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mind. And, of course, THANKS to the hack/phreak community in general for not
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only becoming, as most countercultures do, decadent and passe, but also for
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still bugging me after all these years!
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The Future: well, if reality doesn't cave itself in TOO badly with all of the
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virtuality that's on its way, it should be a great time for all to play with
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the "net!"
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Inside jokes: HALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK
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eaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerly... the gwampismobile shall ride again!
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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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Well, as far as geeking goes, all are free to pursue their interests. It
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is important to remember that social evolution and mental evolution do not
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necessarily occur simultaneously, or instantaneously (usually).
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