| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 #### |
| ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 2^*^*^*^ |
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| [Ed's Note: CertainThings in the article have been blanked (XXXXX) at the |
| request of the author] |
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| The Story of the Feds on XXXXXXX BBS |
| By The Mad Phone Man |
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| Returninghome one afternoon with a friend, I knew something wasn't |
| right when I walked into the computer room. I see a "Newuser" on the board... |
| and the language he's using is... well "Intimidating"... |
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| "I want you all to know I'm with the OCC task force and we know who you are... |
| we are going to have a little get-together and 'talk' to you all." |
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| Hmmm... a loser?... I go into chat mode... "Hey dude, what's up?" I ask. |
| "Your number asshole" he says.... Well, fine way to log on to a board if I do |
| say.... "Hey, you know I talked to you and I know who you are.." "Oh |
| yeah...Who am I?." he hesitates and says... "Well uh.. you used to work for |
| Sprint didn't you?" |
| I say, "No, you've got me confused with someone else I think, I'm a junior |
| in high school." |
| "Ohyeah?.. You got some pretty big words for a high school kid," he |
| says.... |
| "Well, in case you didn't know, they teach English as a major these |
| days...." |
| He says... "Do you really want to know which LD company I'm with?" |
| I say "NO, but if it will make you happy, tell me." |
| He says MCI. (Whew! I don't use them)... "Well you're outta luck |
| asshole, I pay for my calls, and I don't use MCI." He's dumbfounded. |
| I wish him the worst as he asks me to leave his rather threatening |
| post up on my board and we hang up on him. |
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| Now, I'm half paralyzed... hmmm.... Check his info-form... he left a |
| number in 303... Denver.... I grab the phone and call it.. It's the Stromberg |
| Telephone company... Bingo.. I've got him. |
| I search my user files and come up with a user called "Cocheese" from |
| there, and I voice validated him, and he said he worked for a small telco |
| called Stromberg... I'm onto him now. |
| Later in the week, I'm in a telco office in a nearby major city, I |
| happen to see a book, marked "Confidential Employee Numbers for AT&T." I |
| thumb thru and lo and behold, an R.F. Stromberg works at an office of AT&T in |
| Denver, and I can't cross reference him to an office. (A sure sign he's in |
| security). Well, not to be out-done by this loser... I dial up NCIC and check |
| for a group search for a driver's licence for him... Bingo. Licence number, |
| cars he owns, his SS number, and a cross reference of the licence files finds |
| his wife, two kids and a boat registered to him. |
| I've never called him back, but If I do have any trouble with him, I'm |
| gonna pay a little visit to Colorado.... |
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