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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume One, Issue Four, Phile #10 of 11
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///\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\\
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Metal Shop PRIVATE\\\ Phrack World News Issue 3 Part 2 ///_ _ ________
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Metal Shop AE \\\ ///| \/ | / ______/
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Metal Shop Brewery \\\ Compiled by /// |_||_|etal/ /hop
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\\\ /// _________/ /
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Present PWN III \\\///\\ Knight Lightning //\\\/// /__________/
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--------------- \-^^^^^^-^^^^^^^^^-/ Triad
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TAP Revival
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The TAP meetings in New York hadn't been going well, every week less people
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would show and it was becoming pointless to attend. Chesire Catalyst makes
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roughly $1000 a month without printing TAP, and really he sees no reason to
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restart. Now TAP is being taken over by The W(hack)o Cracko Brothers, INC.
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Chesire Catalyst has officially given the TAP name over to TWCB Inc. or has he?
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These answers still remain a mystery. TWCB plans to change the name of the mag
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but not until after issue one is out.
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Supposedly, Chesire had over 500 articles that never saw print that he has been
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holding until the re-opening of TAP. It is unknown if TWCB and the new TAP
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Staff will acquire these articles. Also it is unknown as too if some of those
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articles were the ones in issue 91 of TAP that was recently distributed at
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TelePub'86 in New York City.
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This new TAP has announced its editors as follows:
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West Coast Editors: The Bootleg (Chief), The Cracker, and TUC
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East Coast Editor: Susan Thunder & Scan Man
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Central Editors: Knight Lightning and Taran King
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TWCB, has stated that on the day the first issue of TAP sees print, they will
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quit phreaking, as they will undoubtedly be watched very closely from then on.
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The status of Whackoland bbs is uncertain. However TWCB has announced plans
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for a UNIX or Motorola system.
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The Staff members include: TWCB Inc., Knight Lightning, Taran King, Scan Man,
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The Firelord, Final Impulse, Ninja NYC, Sigmund
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Fraud, Silver Spy, The Bootleg, The Cracker, Surfer
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Bill, and The Marauder. Also unconfirmed reports
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state that the LOD will be taking an active part in
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this new magazine.
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Subscription rates are as follows:
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$4.00 Singular issue
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$20.00 Half year/6 month subscription
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$35.00 Year subscription
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$100.00 Corporate year subscription, for businesses or government agencies
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The $35/One year subscription includes:
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o A years subscription to Tap Magazine (12, 30+ Page Issues).
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o A free account to TWCB's Unix system (Limited offer).
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o A free account to TWCB's Watson Message Center (Limited offer).
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The magazine will consist of 30-40 color pages and will be using the same type
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of paper as most common everyday magazines (ie. TIME, Newsweek etc). TAP will
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be published every month.
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Tele-Pub meetings will be held once a month at TAP offices in St.Louis, MO.
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TWCB is supposedly in the process of organizing a TAP-Tele-Pub Convention to be
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held in St. Louis at the Marriot Hotel (most likely). TWCB says it will be THE
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Largest Phreak/Hackers convention EVER held! They are planning it for the
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Summer of 1986.
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For more information on how to become a staff member to to subscribe to TAP
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call 314-527-TWCB.
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TAP Offices are located at 12072 Manchester Road, Suite 21, Des Peres, MO
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63131. Send all subscriptions there in money, checks, or money orders made out
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to Tap Magazine. (Editor's note: It is uncertain as to the true existence of
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this office. There is always the possibility of it being a mail forwarding
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service).
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Some of the articles to expect in the first issue are interviews with The
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Bootleg, Scan Man, Surfer Bill (concerning the Teltec Busts), files from
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Bootlegger Magazine Issues (including those from issue #7 which has not yet
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been released, this includes articles from MCI World Magazine, such as the MCI
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World/MCI Security Interview), and NRK 01. TWCB claims to have received over a
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100 articles from TOP Hack/Phreakers.
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As to the reasons concerning TWCB not appearing at the TAP-TelePub'86, Tim
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posted the following on the Phrack/TAP subboard on Metal Shop PRIVATE:
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"Well the meeting totally got screwed I couldn't make it, mainly because
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Cheshire sorta fucked TAP over. I think he was just in it for the money. He
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was supposed to set up a PRIVATE meeting for TAP and it was going to be before
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the big meeting, well I called some people at the Days in at about 4:00 AM in
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the morning from the airport, the morning of the meeting, and they say well
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Cheshire says that the Private meeting is going to be after the Big Meeting
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and everyone already knows where were going."
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"Anyway I couldn't make it cause my plane landed at Laguardi and I was to take
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the plane back at 11:30 AM, well it takes 45 minutes to get to the Days Inn
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and didn't want to go to the big meeting because of serious LEGAL troubles."
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(Editor's note: The way I heard it directly from Tim, is that they called from
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St. Louis International to NYC and heard about the changes and knew about
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their late plane situation and decided to blow it off.)
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The following is the story of how TWCB got started with TAP:
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At first, there it was... Metal Shop standing proud, the home of Phrack
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Newsletter. TWCB saw this and put up Whackoland, which many of you may notice
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was made specifically to look like MS. Furthermore, TWCB was gonna have a
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magazine originally called "Whackoland Gazette" until TWCB realized that with
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Metal Shop and P-80 backing it and not just Whackoland, they would have to
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change the name. Phrack was supposed to be reprinted in this mag. The list of
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boards backing it grew quickly. Still however it was a magazine without a
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name. Then TWCB started hearing about the revival of TAP and how the meetings
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were not going very well. They called Chesire Catalyst and started working out
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the preliminary details, which brings us to where we are today.
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There are those however who would NOT like to see TAP restarted. Among them,
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2600 Magazine and Project Inform. Who could blame them? No one likes
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competition. This was okay however until, TWCB got a call from TUC, Lex Luthor,
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Susan Thunder, and Mark Tabas (the staff members of Project Educate). They
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claimed they want TWCB to publish for them, TWCB refused. Later they received
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a threatening call from TUC, in which they were informed that TUC would have
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security people watching TWCB all the time and when they slipped up...*BOOM*
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Now TWCB says that TUC later called and now is fully behind TAP and has
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accepted editorship with TAP.
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ALL information in this article, excluding the short history and investigative
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sections, was provided by TWCB Inc. Especially the parts about Project Inform,
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TUC, Lex, etc.
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TAP's Motto: Help US fight Your fight! - Join Tap's WAR!
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Phrack/Tap Status Report
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Regardless of the TAP situation, Phrack will remain in publication. TWCB is
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not very happy about this but, we really don't care.
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The reasons that the Teltec Bust story did not appear in this issue of PWN is
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that most of the info we have on it was supplied by Surfer Bill in an interview
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he did with TWCB. I have the taped interview, but as it was done by TWCB it
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therefore was TAP property. However, should TAP issue #1 not be in print by
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the time Phrack V is ready, the Teltec story WILL appear in Phrack World News
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Issue Number IV.
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:Knight Lightning
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Monty Python Retires
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The following message appeared on Stronghold East Elite on Sunday, February 9,
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1986, 4:50:53 PM.
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I have formally retired from the phreaking world, permanently. I have *NOT*
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been busted or been given any heat by anyone or any corporation. I just have
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no time what-so-ever to devote myself to give phreaking the appropriate time it
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deserves. Schoolwork is bringing me down, and I have a big research paper
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coming up, plus lots of other work.
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Honestly, phreaking doesn't seem much fun anymore. I especially hate the
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attitudes of some phreaks (who shall remain nameless) who have their head in
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the clouds, and put down everyone else. It is quite a pain in the ass, and
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these people look like fools, cause they are usually nothing quite like what
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they think they are.
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My "retirement" entails the ceasing of myself of calling phreak boards,
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hacking, and trashing. If you want to call me up on a conference, don't bother
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(some of you have done so in the past). I don't have the time and I am not
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interested.
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Later on and be seeing you from time to time...
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Monty Python
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Editor's Note: Monty Python did ask for his account to be kept active at
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Stronghold East, so that he may see what's new, from time to
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time. Also Monty Python has further stated that he may return
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to the phreak world this summer.
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Demise of The Sprinter
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On the front page of the Wednesday, February 12, 1986 edition of the Seattle
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P-I were the headlines COMPUTER INVASION CHARGED. Kirkland youth accused of
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snooping. Some of the articles highlights were:
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One Michael P. Wilkerson (The Sprinter) was so successful in bypassing four
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companies computer security. He could copy or destroy data even the sysops
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couldn't touch. The 18 year old most notably tapped into MicroSoft's
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mainframe, along with 3 other companies, Kenworth Truck, Sunstrand Data
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Control, and Resource Conservation companies.
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Looks like the district attorney is asking for a 90 day sentence and will get
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it due to the cooperation (read plea bargaining) given by Sprinter. During the
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search, the police discovered a list of TRW dial-ups and passwords and a
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handwritten list of Visa, Mastercard, and Amex credit card numbers.
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It turns out that Sprinter is also under investigation for illegal credit card
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purchases in his home state of California. Most notably a $1400 bicycle.
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A real nice point made by the district attorney is that possession of the list
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of card numbers is NOT a crime. Only the use of them is illegal.
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Now that was the Seattle P-I's interpretation of those events, this is
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everything else we at Phrack Inc. have been able to uncover.
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Sprinter got busted for hacking on a large VAX/VMS system, and since it was
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local to him, he didn't bother to go through an extender. He didn't feel there
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was any danger considering he wasn't using a lead number.
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Sprinter was well known for his "bible" of Sprint codes that was always kept
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filled. His bible and all computer equipment were confiscated.
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Sprinter has 4 charges of hacking. One nice part about this is that since his
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bust, Sprinter has received several job offers for computer security, including
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an offer from MicroSoft Inc. (Editor's note: I wonder if MicroSoft will drop
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its charges against Sprinter as a part of the contract should he sign with
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them).
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The one interesting twist to this story is that Sprinter's bosses got into
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some deep shit. While people were going through Sprinter's computer things
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(which was in his bosses' office) they found some evidence that led them to
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believe that Sprinter's bosses were large cocaine dealers. Sprinter's bosses
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haven't been heard from since. Later reports did however tell that 1 of them
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is now serving a 7 year prison sentence and the other is presumed dead. This
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part is very unspecific because it doesn't say what their basis for this
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judgement are. Did they find the body? Or is he just missing?
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Much of this information has been provided by
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Sally Ride (Space Cadet),
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The Guardian Demon,
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and
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Jester Sluggo
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Some Quick Notes
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The Matrix, formally at 415-922-1370, is down due to the hard drive being
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broken. Dr. Strangelove says that as soon as he can get another hard drive,
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the Matrix will return.
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Spectre III, run by the Overlord of 815, is back up. Overlord requests that
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all former users of his system please call it back again. The number is
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815-874-8534.
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Unconfirmed reports say that OSUNY, in New York, will soon be returning.
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GTE Sprint and U.S. Telecom have merged in order to become a stronger
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competitor against MCI and AT&T.
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Compuserve is now linked with MCI Mail.
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Pit Fiend of NESSUS was busted for trying to obtain $3500 dollars in gold bars
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by way of credit card fraud.
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The Missing Link BBS is back. It is now a public board (or so it is believed).
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The number is 806-799-0016. Sysop: Egyptian Lover.
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Because of problems dealing with Phoenix Phortress as well as a growing number
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of rodents, Metal Shop PRIVATE has changed its general password. It is no
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longer "REQUIRED". Contact Taran King, Knight Lightning, or Cheap Shades for
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the new general password, if you haven't been contacted yet (and you were/are a
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member). See story on Phoenix Phortress in this issues PWN.
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The phreaks in Massachusetts and many other nearby areas are in quite a frenzy
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right now due to a possible bust of Dr. Who 413. It appears that while at
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school, his parents were showed a search warrant by the Secret Service, who
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then searched through his computer equipment as well as his notes etc. He
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eventually went home and is currently waiting for results. There is a very
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high probability that he has by now been busted. Look for a future story on
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his bust and its after-effects in the next Phrack World News.
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Phreak Klass 2600 originally died because Red Devil became bored of phreaking.
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Now Crimson Death (Sysop of Hell Phrozen Over) and Videosmith are looking for
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someone to run Phreak Klass 2600 II.
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Feyd Rautha was NOT busted but did retire from the phreak world. In his own
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words, he is "phazed out" or bored of phreaking. A word to all, especially
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sysops, there is another Feyd Rautha now. He is in the 612 (Minneapolis) area.
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Do not confuse him with the old elite mentioned here.
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