| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 17 #### |
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| ^*^*^*^ Phrack World News, Part 1 ^*^*^*^ |
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| - P H R A C K W O R L D N E W S - |
| (Mainly Compiled By Sir Francis Drake) |
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| 2/1/88 |
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| BUST UPDATE |
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| All the people busted by the Secret Service last July were contacted in |
| September and asked if they "wanted to talk." No one but Solid State heard |
| from the S.S. after this. Solid State was prosecuted and got one year |
| probation plus some required community service. The rest: Ninja NYC, Bill |
| >From RNOC, Oryan QUEST, etc. are still waiting to hear. Some rumors have gone |
| around that Oryan QUEST has cooperated extensively with the feds but I have no |
| idea about the validity of this. The following is a short interview with |
| Oryan QUEST. Remember that QUEST has a habit of lying. |
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| PHRACK: Did you hear from the SS in September? It seems everybody else has. |
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| QUEST: No. I haven't heard from them since I was busted. Maybe they forgot |
| me. |
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| P: What's your lawyer think of your case? |
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| Q: He says lay low. He says it's no problem because of my age. |
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| P: What do your parents think? |
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| Q: They were REALLY pissed for about a week but then they relaxed. I mean I |
| think my parents knew I went through enough... I mean I felt like shit. |
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| P: Do you plan to keep involved in Telecom legit or otherwise? |
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| Q: Uhh, I wanna call boards... I mean I can understand why a sysop wouldn't |
| give me an access but... I'm thinking of putting a board up, a secure |
| board just to stay in touch ya know? Cause I had a lot of fun I mean I |
| just don't want to get busted again. |
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| P: Any further words of wisdom? |
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| Q: No matter what anyone says I'm *ELITE*. NOOOO don't put that. |
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| P: Yes I am. |
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| Q: No I don't want people to think I'm a dick. |
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| P: Well... |
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| Q: You're a dick. |
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| - On a completely different note, Taran King who as some of you know was |
| busted, is going to be writing a file for Phrack about what happened real |
| soon now. |
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| MEDIA |
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| The big media thing has been scare stories about computer viruses, |
| culminating in a one page Newsweek article written by good old Sandza and |
| friends. John Markoff of the San Francisco Examiner wrote articles on |
| viruses, hacking voice mailboxes, and one that should come out soon about the |
| July Busts (centering on Oryan QUEST). A small scoop: He may be leaving for |
| the New York Times or the San Jose Mercury. |
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| Phreak media wise things have been going downhill. Besides PHRACK (which |
| had a bad period but hopefully we're back for good) there is 2600, and |
| Syndicate Report. Syndicate Report is dead, although their voice mail system |
| is up. Sometimes. 2600 has gone from a monthly magazine to a quarterly one |
| because they were losing so much money. One dead and 2 wounded. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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| Taran King and Knight Lightning are having a fun time in their fraternity |
| at University of Missouri. Their respective GPA's are 2.1 and 2.7 |
| approximately.... Phantom Phreaker and Doom Prophet are in a (punk/metal) |
| band... Lex Luthor is alive and writing long articles for 2600... Sir Francis |
| Drake sold out and wrote phreak articles for Thrasher... Jester Sluggo has |
| become vaguely active again... |
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| CONCLUSION |
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| Less and less people are phreaking, the world is in sorry shape, and I'm going |
| to bed. Hail Eris. |
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| sfd |
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