| ==Phrack Inc.= |
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| Volume Two, Issue 10, Phile #2 of 9 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile 7== |
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| Written and Created by Taran King |
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| 12/15/86 |
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| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile 7. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring |
| info to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people. |
| This month, I bring to you a user from the golden years of hacking and |
| phreaking... |
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| Dave Starr |
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| Dave is one of the old phreakers and hackers that accomplished so |
| much through voice phreaking and literal hacking rather than reading others' |
| findings to learn. A master engineer, voice phreaking is one unto itself. |
| Dave has a PhD in B.S. |
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| Personal |
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| Handle: Dave Starr |
| Call him: Dave Starr |
| Past handles: Micronet Phantom and Big Brother |
| Handle origin: Micronet Phantom came from working with The Source |
| computer and Big Brother, of course, came from George |
| Orwell's 1984. |
| Date of Birth: 5/6/62 |
| Age at current date: 24 |
| Height: 6' 0" |
| Weight: 170 lbs. |
| Eye color: Brown |
| Hair Color: Light Brown |
| Computers: TRS-80 (4k version), Apple ][, ][+, ][e |
| Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Starcom Network |
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| Dave started out on The Source, and stuck with them for 6 to 8 months |
| hacking around the system because the system was so slow security-wise, and of |
| course, from there, he got involved with hacking Primes. One of the security |
| agents named Paul from Dialcom got in contact with Dave and discussed Dave's |
| hacking on The Source (his system). After talking, they found they had common |
| interests, which included hacking and phreaking. Paul gave Dave his first |
| code to a local dial-up for Sprint. He also led him in the direction of 8BBS, |
| which brought him to meet the best of the nation's phreakers and hackers at |
| the time, which included Susan Thunder, Roscoe DuPran, and Kevin Mitnick. |
| Susan and Roscoe were strong friends of Dave that he personally met as well as |
| Kevin, but he never met Kevin. He met Susan in the L.A. County Courthouse |
| testifying against her, with Susan and Roscoe using these handles as real |
| names on the charges of harassment. The phreak/hack BBS's that were most |
| memorable for Dave were 8BBS and his own, Starcom Network, which had hidden |
| commands for accessing the phreak section. Starcom Network was a nationally |
| networked system that Dave created and operated. This was a virtual copy of |
| The Source, for which he went to court over. They claimed it was their |
| system, but he supressed them with a threat of publicity. Modem Over |
| Manhattan was another memorable board on a TRS-80. He attributes his phreak |
| knowledge to Paul from Dialcom and to The Source for his hacking ability as |
| well as Susan Thunder for information on RSTS. |
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| Dave Starr does intelligence and counter-intelligence work for anyone |
| who has money and who is not against the United States or the views of the |
| United States. |
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| Dave has always operated independently, never being a member of a |
| club or group, and has hand-picked his partners. |
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| Interests: Telecomputing (phreaking and hacking), movies, a |
| fascination with the match-making systems (Dial-Your-Match |
| type systems), fun, video components. |
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| Dave's Favorite Things |
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| Women: A quiet evening with the girlfriends (NOTE: Plural). |
| Cars: Mercedes 450-SL (his girlfriend's). |
| Foods: Italian. |
| Music: Anything excluding acid rock/heavy metal. |
| Leisure: Smoking, but he hates cigarettes. |
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| Most Memorable Experiences |
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| Bringing The Source's system to their knees. |
| The Source hackers made demands of a rate of reduction to a minimum of a 33% |
| decrease, which was sent with the comment, "I am in business so I understand |
| the money, but you are becoming too fucking greedy." Also, an article in |
| Source-World magazine was demanded, bigger than the one in the last issue |
| which was to contain the following: how long they'd been on the Source, why |
| they were doing this, The Source's demented point of view, their correct |
| point of view, how long they have been terrorizing the Source, and an apology |
| for lying to all the users that the rate increase was necessary, AND an open |
| apology to The Pirate and Micronet Phantom saying sorry for all the trouble |
| The Source had caused them in their quest for fair and free Sourcing. They |
| wanted 2 seclev 4 accounts (normal is 3). They assured The Source that they |
| could get them here for free, and low-and-behold, they could create anything, |
| but they didn't want the harassment. If they did get harassed, they would |
| immediately log in under seclev 7 and kill the system. The threatened that |
| various accounts would be killed (all with seclev 4 and up). The Source |
| person wrote, "Was this ever answered?". They then went on to say that they |
| wouldn't do any more terrorizing provided that it was responded to their |
| acct. within 20 minutes. |
| For deleting an account, he sent back a message saying, "Fuck you". He |
| explained how they were powerless against The Pirate and Micronet Phantom, |
| and how The Source shouldn't even try to catch them. They were to continue |
| to attack "The Empire" (The Source) until it was fair for the users. |
| Numerous other letters that played to the same tune. |
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| Some People to Mention |
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| TCA Vic of The Source - Customer Service Manager/Gestapo Police |
| (Who he dearly hated and always has thought of |
| sticking a broomstick up his ass) |
| Paul of Dialcom (Introduced him to phreaking and put his paranoia to rest) |
| Susan Thunder (For teaching him RSTS and other things) |
| Bruce Patton (On his rag list due to a disagreement. He received a |
| electricity shut-down and a phone system shut-down of his law |
| office as well as forwarding all calls to the 8BBS) |
| Roscoe DuPran (For having him go to court with him and meeting Susan in |
| person and for many other things [unmentionable here]) |
| The Pirate of Las Vegas (For his helpful continual harassment of The Source) |
| Kevin Metnick (For his infrequent but helpful service) |
| Larry of Modem Over Manhattan (For being there and his BBS being there) |
| Bernard of 8BBS (For being there and his BBS being there) |
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| I hope you enjoyed this file, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming in |
| the near future. ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all interviewees. |
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| Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most |
| phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? Only The Pirate, a 13 year old, fit |
| this description. Thank you for your time, Dave. |
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| Taran King |
| Sysop of Metal Shop Private |
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