| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Two, Issue Eleven, Phile #2 of 12 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile VIII== |
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| Written and Created by Taran King |
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| 2/17/87 |
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| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile VIII. 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 one of the older and high profile phreaks |
| of the past... |
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| Wizard of Arpanet |
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| Wizard of Arpanet is one of the older of the phreak/hack generation. |
| His main accomplishments include running Inner Circle and Secret Service BBS. |
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| Handle: Wizard of Arpanet |
| Call him: Eric |
| Past handles: The Hacker and The Priest |
| Handle Origin: A real programmer on Arpanet was called The |
| Wizard and Eric took his handle from him. |
| Date of Birth: 02/26/69 |
| Age in 9 days of this writing: 18 years old |
| Height: 6'1" |
| Weight: 150 lbs |
| Eye color: Blue |
| Hair color: Dishwaterish blond |
| Computers: Atari 400, Commodore 64 |
| Sysop/Co-sysop of: Secret Service |
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| Wizard of Arpanet started as your average BBS caller. He eventually |
| called Central Processing Unit (a local board to him), and there were these |
| funny numbers on the board. He called and tried to connect with his modem, |
| but they turned out to be Sprint dial-ups. The CPU Sysop informed him of what |
| to do and he started calling national BBSs. Boards that helped him to advance |
| include the Twilight Zone (the sysop was the guy that wrote T-Net), OSUNY, |
| Dragon's Lair, and Delta BBS. Wizard organized various groups which included |
| (from earliest to most recent): PHA (Phreakers and Hackers of America) - |
| (included Deep Throat, Phreak King, and Psycho Killer), The Inner Circle (1st |
| one) (included Shockwave Rider, and Satan Knight aka Redrum), and The 2nd |
| Inner Circle (included The Cracker, Mr. America, Napoleon Bonapart, Stainless |
| Steal Rat, Big Brother, Mr. Xerox, Bootleg, Maxwell Wilke, Mandrake The |
| Magician, and Zaphod Beeblebrox). |
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| Eric got the number to Arpanet from Dark Dante, and got on the MIT |
| Research System from looking through TAC News. One night he got like 50-60 |
| accounts on the Unix and changed all of the passwords to WIZARD. |
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| Stainless Steal Rat, the Sysop of Delta BBS, and The Myth were all up |
| from NJ one weekend, and they were staying the weekend at John Maxfield's |
| house. They went to John's office. Wizard asked Maxfield if he could use his |
| computer to print out some things he had with him and he printed out some |
| stuff from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence address list for Arpanet. |
| John was amazed. "Wow," he said, "I have prime evidence on you." (TK: This |
| may not for sure be an exact quote). He then proceeded to bust our friend, |
| Eric, the next week. He also had a lot of stuff from AUTOVON from some fellow |
| in Washington and started playing with the FTS lines (Federal Telephone |
| System) which he found from, none other than, John Maxfield. They had found |
| the default passwords for TeleMail too, and got the administrator accounts and |
| set up their own BBS on Nassau and Coca-Cola systems plus anywhere else |
| possible. And all of a sudden, it all came down when Mandrake decided to |
| crash parts of TeleMail. Enter, Federal Bureau of Investigations. They had |
| been monitoring Eric for 6 months looking for some evidence to get him on. |
| And thus, they got it. Nothing really happened, but he had to get a lawyer |
| and he got some publicity in the paper. After 90 days, everything they had |
| taken, with the exception of a few documents, was sent back. During those 90 |
| days, Eric worked as a computer security consultant at a bank making $200 an |
| hour (2 hours...). |
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| The only "phreaks" he's met are Stainless Steal Rat and Cable Pair. |
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| Eric has been mentioned on local TV/News, in newspapers, USA Today, |
| NY Times, Washington Post, Books, and Britannica Encyclopedia (look under |
| Hacker). |
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| Interests: Music (preferably jazz, reggae, new wave), Eastern |
| philosophy (Zen Buddhism), reading Jack Kerouac books (a |
| great beatnik writer), driving aimlessly, slowly becoming |
| a social recluse, physics, and Greek mathematicians. |
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| Eric's Favorite Things |
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| Women: The pursuit thereof (Karen Wilder). |
| Foods: Chinese. |
| Cars: BMW 320-I. |
| Artist: Salvador Dali. |
| Plans for next few months: Next year and a half - travelling to Montreal in |
| April for a week of leisure, then jetting back to |
| beautiful Detroit and continuing his studies at |
| Eisenhower High School. |
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| Most Memorable Experiences |
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| Realizing all at once that everything you did 3 years ago was stupid. |
| Growing into a new person. |
| Gaining morals and new ideas and a new outlook. |
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| Some People to Mention |
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| Tuc (For telling him about boxing). |
| Tom Tone (For calling him on his first conference). |
| Magnetic Surfer (Talking to him for the first time after Sherwood Forest went |
| down voice). |
| John Maxfield (Meeting him). |
| Stainless Steal Rat (Meeting him...with John Maxfield). |
| Dark Dante (One of the legends phreakdom). |
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| Always follow your instinct and not your desire for you will be |
| sorry because you will be lying to yourself. |
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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? No, says Eric, he considers them a new |
| breed of intellect. Thanks for your time, Eric. |
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| Taran King |
| Sysop of Metal Shop Private |
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